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Pierce writes: "She may not realize it at the moment, although I suspect she has realized it all along, but Kim Davis just became a political television star and a very rich lady besides."

Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk of courts, stands at the County Clerk's Office on September 2, 2015, in Morehead, Kentucky. (photo: Ty Wright/Getty)
Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk of courts, stands at the County Clerk's Office on September 2, 2015, in Morehead, Kentucky. (photo: Ty Wright/Getty)


Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Is About to Get Filthy Rich

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

04 September 15

 

It's Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? time down at the federal courthouse.

he may not realize it at the moment, although I suspect she has realized it all along, but Kim Davis just became a political television star and a very rich lady besides.

The clerk, Kim Davis of Rowan County, was ordered incarcerated after a hearing here before Judge David L. Bunning of Federal District Court. The contempt finding was another legal defeat for Ms. Davis, who has argued that she should not be forced to issue licenses that conflict with her religious beliefs. "The court cannot condone the willful disobedience of its lawfully issued order," Judge Bunning said. "If you give people the opportunity to choose which orders they follow, that's what potentially causes problems."

Dear Judge Bunning: Thanks for nothing.

Let me explain to you what happens now. The entire political communications apparatus of the wingnut welfare system goes to DefCon 1. (Judge Bunning's e-mail is going to get very entertainingly unchristian, I suspect.) Kim Davis now becomes the latest ornament on the Hang Yourself Cross of Bible-banging victimhood. There will be marches and vigils. There will be a six-figure book deal; my money's on John Fund as Davis's ghost. There may even be one of those movies produced by gullibility trawlers like the one helmed by Rick Santorum. Anybody want to bet me that she doesn't speak at next year's Republican National Convention? You have made a star, Judge Bunning, and the rest of us have to live with her.

Ms. Davis has said little amid her legal battle, but in a statement her lawyers released on Tuesday, she said she would not change her position. "I never imagined a day like this would come, where I would be asked to violate a central teaching of Scripture and of Jesus himself regarding marriage," she said in the statement. "To issue a marriage license which conflicts with God's definition of marriage, with my name affixed to the certificate, would violate my conscience. It is not a light issue for me. It is a heaven or hell decision."

The fact that the law and common sense—to say nothing of the notion that you should do the damn job you get paid a salary to do—are lined up behind Judge Bunning doesn't matter a damn to the people inside the bubble. Only two contenders for president on the Republican side have made the quite reasonable argument that Davis should do the job she swore an oath (to God!) to do, or quit the job because her conscience demands it. Now that she's tossed into the sneezer, I expect to hear at least some backing and filling from both Carly Fiorina and Lindsey Graham.

Stardom awaits behind those bars, Kim. I do wonder about one thing, though. Suppose Davis announced that it was against her conscience and God's authority for her to submit to Judge's Bunning's authority and go to jail. Could she go home, then?

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