So here's my thoughts on Kim Davis and religious freedom in general:
Kim Davis is free to believe whatever she wants to about marriage. She is perfectly willing to believe that it is perfectly OK with Jesus to be in her fourth marriage, even though Jesus pretty explicitly said that she was committing adultery by going into her second marriage. (And even Jesus didn't talk too much about her third and fourth marriage. I think that's probably because Jesus just couldn't imagine that a woman with that bad of a hairdo would be able to get married four times!!!)
But she is refusing to provide service to those who believe differently about marriage. I just wonder what she would have said if she had gone to a county clerk for her second or third or fourth marriage license and had been met with a clerk who refused to give her a marriage license because it violated the clerk's deeply held religious beliefs.
But this is the rallying cry of the Christian right. I'm being persecuted because I cannot force others to follow my beliefs! You have to follow my beliefs about reproductive choices! You have to follow my beliefs about marriage!
Ya know, I really don't care what your religious beliefs are. I don't care how deeply held your religious beliefs are or how you put them into practice. But your religious rights end right where my religious rights begin, just as my religious rights end right where yours begin.
Nobody is trying to force Kim Davis into a gay marriage. Nobody is trying to force her to do anything in her personal life that offends her deeply held religious beliefs. Nobody questioned her when she went back for her second and third and fourth marriage licenses. Because it is not the role of anybody else to decide whether or not she should have her second or third or fourth marriage. And whatever my personal beliefs are about her second and her third and her fourth marriage, it ain't none of my business.
Kim Davis is no hero. She is no campaigner for religious rights. She is attempting to be a dictator who denies others their religious freedom and force them to follow her beliefs whether they share them or not.
Just as is the tactic of the "religious" right. Nobody is trying to force anyone who believes abortion is wrong to have an abortion. But the religious right is trying to prevent those who believe differently about abortion to follow the beliefs of the Right. Nobody is trying to force any conservative to use birth control. But the Right is trying to force others to follow their beliefs on birth control. Nobody is trying to force Kim Davis or any other "religious" right-winger into a gay marriage. But Kim Davis and her supporters are trying to prevent those who believe differently to adhere to the "religious" right beliefs on marriage.
It is not religious freedom if I am only free to follow your religion.
