Gay Marriage / Gay Rights

[HairOfTheDog]

She did it! She's famous!

You betchya.

She's been made so by some high-profile Christian fundamentalists and anti-gay crusaders who are positioning Kim Davis as their virtual poster child.



Not least among those fame-makers are some of the GOP Presidential Candidates.

Mike Huckabee, for example, will be pulling his head out of his ass long enough to smile for the cameras when he joins a rally in support of Davis today. He's batting a thousand showing everyone just how righteous intolerant fundamentalists/extremists really are. He's rallied around both Josh Duggar and Kim Davis in the last few months. You're on a roll there Mike.

Seriously, while I respect their rights to protest, advocate and speak freely, I don't think Huckabee and his constituency of far right evangelicals have made any net gains for their cause or changed any minds in favor of their views (which include comparing gay rights activists to Nazis). They're on the wrong side of the Constitution, the wrong side of the law, and they've simply seized the opportunity to preach publicly to the same old choir, in my opinion. However, I'd not be a bit surprised if their form of gospel has prompted some rational young and moderate Christians to move further away from their stance.

Walker and Jindahl and Cruz are among those crying, "attack on religious (Christian) freedoms!" too. I think it hurts their credibility/appeal outside of their conservative niches and helps make them completely un-electable.

Trump (and Bush, who is essentially saying the same thing as Trump again) mostly got this one right, in my view. Kim Davis should follow the law, whether she likes the law or not. She could have agreed to accommodations which would have allowed the county office and other clerks therein to issue marriage licenses to gays, without her personal involvement. She refused that option. Where I disagree with Trump and Bush is in their assertion that it's too bad Davis is in jail. She put herself there and she's right where she belongs, as far as I'm concerned.

Fortunately, not all the GOP candidates are confused about the separation of church and state and void of common sense. John Kasich, Chris Christie, and Carly Fiorina also get it. They're all religious folks, and they believe that Kim Davis should do her governmental job without using personal religious intolerance as a tool with which to deny citizens their equal rights under the law.