09-03-2015, 08:48 PM
(09-03-2015, 07:55 PM)pyropappy Wrote: The segregationists were standing on states rights; their politicians were elected as well. They stood in opposition to a change in federal law that they disagreed with. They lost, and they lost a lot more than they ever dreamed.
Well, one thing I agree with you about pappy: both Rosa Parks and Kim Davis exercised their Constitutional rights to free speech and protest. I don't begrudge or hate either of them for it and I understand why both were arrested for breaking the law. That's where the similarities end, however.
Rosa was protesting to extend equal rights and change old Federal law, which she and others in the equal rights movement eventually succeeded in accomplishing.
Gay rights activists fought the battle for marriage equality in similar fashion as Rosa Parks and black activists fought for desegregation and equal rights for blacks. Like Rosa & company, the gay activists eventually won their battle and Federal law was changed.
Kim Davis, on the other hand, is simply protesting an order to do her job based on a conflict between her personal/religious beliefs and new Federal law. She lost her legal battle. If she keeps fighting it, like those who kept fighting against equal rights for blacks, I believe she will simply keep losing (and rightly so).
Anyway, to me, it's much more accurate to compare Kim Davis to county officials who refused to marry bi-racial couples after Loving vs. Virginia than it is to compare Kim Davis to Rosa Parks.