09-01-2015, 03:16 PM
(09-01-2015, 02:57 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: Well, yeah -- everybody who ever lived is "in history".
That includes individuals who bucked the system to help affect progress and extend equal rights, along with those who bucked the system to fight against progress and keep intolerance/bigotry alive. It's my opinion that this Kim woman falls in the latter category.
Some of the buckers were self-important insubordinate zealots, and some were anything but. It's my opinion that this Kim woman falls in the former category.
If Kim wants to protest, violate the law, preach her religious beliefs and champion her convictions, no problem here. But, she should do it on her own dime, not that of her employer and the taxpayers. In my opinion.
Well that's a nice way of being dismissive. Yes, HotD, everyone who ever lived is "in history". Thanks for cluing me in.
ETA: At this point, Davis is just upholding a fine Democrat legacy of denying civil rights to people. She is standing in the clerk house door, refusing admittance just like George Wallace did in Alabama to keep blacks out of his school. Why hasn't Obama just sent the Kentucky National Guard in to right this most heinous wrong? That's all it would take, and then this ugly chapter would be over.
Or the gay couples to just go to another county and get the license while Davis sends her appeals through the courts. I know, I know, it's not as much fun or as big of a spectacle.