This Thursday, Aug. 3, 2015 photo made available by the Carter County Detention Center shows Kim Davis. The Rowan County, Ky., clerk went to jail Thursday for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, but five of her deputies agreed to comply with the law, ending a two-month standoff.Read more
Kentucky clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples
Americans seem way too preoccupied with sex. Not just their own sex, but everyone else’s. Especially married sex.
Consider the headlines of recent weeks – from the little black book-like hack on the Ashley Madison adultery website, to a clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex partners, to one of our own judge’s dismissal of a couple’s divorce petition on the grounds (in part) that the U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex ruling didn’t also define “when a marriage is no longer a marriage.”
This week’s big sex stories aren’t out of the norm. They’re just this week’s sex stories. Just about the time the hacked Ashley Madison database was taken offline and the nation’s prurient curiosity hit that brick wall, Kim Davis walked across the news pages and TV screens to give us another sex spectacle. Davis is the defiant Rowan County, Ky., clerk who went to jail Thursday for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
“God’s moral law conflicts with my job duties,” Davis told the judge before she was walked to a cell. “You can’t be separated from something that’s in your heart and in your soul.”