A SECOND KENTUCKY COUNTY CLERK REFUSES TO DO THEIR JOB

…Clerk Casey Davis on his Kentucky demonstration ride against same-sex marriage.

 

If a job goes against a person’s basic beliefs, they should find another job.

 

The organization, Right-Wing Watch, has written a story about the semi-literate Casey County Clerk that appeared recently on Huntington, West Virginia’s “Tom Roten Morning Show”.  The County Clerk, Casey Davis, was on the broadcast show railing against the Kentucky Governor, Steve Beshear, for complying with the US Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling.  Clerk Casey kept insisting that the governor should flat-out ignore the high court’s decision.

His exact words were, (and without any grammar corrections) “I think that’s a travesty to think that just because he don’t see it this way or his opinion is to let same-sex marriage go and it’s all right that us as Christians, us as Christians just don’t have them rights anymore? That’s wrong sir. That just ain’t right.”

Now, my understanding is that this clerk’s role is an elected position in Casey County.  If that’s true, it does say something about the clerk choices of the residents of that rural Kentucky county.

But this county clerk is now taking his views up another notch. 

Davis went on to claim that he was prepared to fight and die in his efforts against marriage equality. 

Per Mr. Davis, “Our law says ‘one man and one woman’ and that is what I held my hand up and took an oath to and that is what I expected. If it takes it, I will go to jail over — if it takes my life, I will die for it because I believe I owe that to the people that fought so I can have the freedom that I have.  I owe that to them today, and you do to, we all do. They fought and died so we could have this freedom and I’m going to fight and die so my kids and your kids can keep it.”

I’m not sure just what he’s talking about as to who fought and died to protect America from marriage equality.  I must have been out of the country for that battle.

I guess he wants his kids to tell their kids, (that might be gay) that their grandfather served time in prison for stopping men and women from marrying the ones they loved if they were gay. 

But first ... here’s an awesome bad, Bible-interpretation from that same Kentucky County Clerk who basically refuses to do his job.

Per Clerk Davis, “Where is Adam and Eve’s marriage license recorded at and who did they go get them issued by? I’ll tell you, God issued them. God ordained it. Whether you believe in God or not, the Bible is where marriage came from and it is where it will continue to come from regardless of what man says that it is. It will never be anything but between one man and one woman in the eyes of God, that’s what marriage is and someone else may label it as something else but it can never be anything except between one man and one woman.”

Casey initially decided to take on this task while being in support of another Kentucky County Clerk named Davis, (no relation). The US Circuit Court of Appeal recently denied the Rowan County Clerk, Kim Davis’ appeal to stay an injunction that now orders her to begin issuing marriage licenses for same-sex marriages. 

 

Casey Davis wants the Rowan County Clerk Davis to know she does not stand alone.  But as of today, Kim Davis still refuses and has been sited as being in contempt of court.

So Casey Davis then decided to embark on a demonstration bike ride from Pikeville to Paducah, KY, for letting everyone know Kim Davis does not deserve to be punished.

Casey rode 40 miles a day, and he had called the Rowan County clerk to tell her about his plans for the ride.  He said that when she heard his plans, she started crying on the phone.

“I cannot let my sister go to jail without my doing something to let others know about her plight,” said Casey.  These two Davis clerks are not directly related except by their religious convictions against same-sex marriage.

Casey Davis incorrectly says Kim Davis’ fate is and has been in the hands of Gov. Steve Beshear, who "vetoed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in 2013 and is now ignoring it even though the General Assembly overrode his veto to make the provision law."  However, Casey is incorrect because this Kentucky law is now defunct as it is against federal law and the latest decision of the US Supreme Court.

Not only are these two clerks not doing the job they were elected to do, they are both acting against a direct decision of the highest court in the land.

This is the same court that was established to protect the same freedoms for which one of these clerks says he would die while fighting to protect.

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