Kim Davis keeps running into that silly little thing called the law.
The Rowan County (Ky.) clerk who’s made a spectacle of herself because she refuses to issue marriage licenses to gay couples has been hit with yet another legal setback.
A federal court has denied Davis an exemption from a gubernatorial directive that requires all public officials to comply with federal law. The law in question, interestingly, originated in a Kentucky case when a gay couple sued to have their marriage declared legal under U.S. law. The Supreme Court ruled in the couple’s favor earlier this year.
Davis, though, has resisted, saying she follows God’s law.
God’s law is not the law to which she swore an oath to uphold. That oath involved secular law established by the U.S. Constitution.
I’ve noted already that Davis — who spent some time in the slammer on a contempt of court violation when she refused to issue marriage licenses to anyone — has gone back to work. She still isn’t granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but she’s allowing her deputies to do so.
But she’s running out of legal options to keep fighting the law she vowed to follow.
This sideshow became a media spectacle the moment Davis started this illegal protest.
It’s time for it to end. Do you job, Mme. Clerk, or else walk away. You’ll be allowed to pray real hard for what you believe and you can become an advocate for whatever cause you wish to pursue.
You just can’t do it while you’re being required to serve the public interest.
