Rowan County Schadenfreude

It appears that the Westboro Baptist Church, last seen picketing the US Weather Service for thinking they know better than God what makes weather (hint: it's queers), have a brand new target:

Kim Davis, because she is "lukewarm".

On one hand, I think it is a damn shame for anyone to be judged for their personal decisions and told that those very things that made their life what it is are in fact, sinful and cut them off from the love of God, and make it so they can not reconcile their lives with a healthy spiritual relationship. On the other hand, if Kim Davis ever wanted to know what queer couples felt like being spurned by a self-righteous ass in their attempt to just live their lives, welp. Welcome to this very valuable experience. Please try to understand they are only exercising their deeply held religious beliefs.

And that the First Amendment guarantees them this very thing.

Nota bene: they are not picketing people who complied with issuing same sex marriage licenses at once, because there are too many of those folks. They are picketing the most publicized person to ultimately agree to allowing same-sex marriage licenses to come out of her office because she rejected them at first. The only thing that singled her out was the suggestion that she was almost going to take this fight all the way.  I'm not telling you the moral of the story, because I trust you are grown and will get it for yourself.

Kim Davis and a Horse of a Different Color

When Kim Clerk Il first started denying marriage licenses to people who wanted to get married, her shtick was quaint, but she sort of had a point--she swore an oath to do a job under terms she agreed with, but then all of a sudden, the Constitution she thought she could uphold gave a place to gay people. And she wroth wrath-ish. I wasn't keen on her enterprise, believing that resignation was better than breaking the oath she took to uphold the Constitution, and generally assuming that most counsel would advise that the Supreme Court was more authoritative than her own self-determination, anyway.

But her latest in altering forms so that the deputy clerks have possibly issued invalid licenses is on a new level of fuckery.--it becomes clear that she doesn't care about other people's exercise of their own personal moral code. Consider whether anyone already had marriage vows performed with the understanding that the license issued was valid--how is this not fraud for them? They believed they obtained a legal document they were entitled to under the law, and went before an officiant of their choosing on the basis of an assumption that this document was legal--and along comes fraudulent Kim Davis. What if some couples receiving this news that their marriage was not legally-binding, were under the impression that their own legal and moral right to cohabitate and consummate their vows depended upon this legal documentation?

This is a perpetration of a fraud on these couples, and this is an abuse of her office. She can not possibly claim that her religion has a right over these citizens' reasonable expectation that the law of the land applies to them, because of a fallacious justification that any one person's bias abrogates that right. She is up shit creek with this nonsense. And her counsel is horrendous.

Songs are Sung to Kim Davis in Wingnut Valhalla

She was deliver'd from her prison on account of, I think, Judge Bunning not wanting more spectacle than two presidential primary candidates might allow. As it was, Ted Cruz's presence was in part elbowed out by Huckabee staffer(s).

I could care less. What I really actually love about this, is that after Kim Davis was told she was let out of jail on the condition of not interfering with marriage licenses for same-sex couples, Mike Huckabee boldly suggested he might be willing to go to jail in her place. Sen. Lindsey Graham was asked about that and said "We'll miss Mike." I can't find a solid link for this attribution but I kind of hope he said it. Somebody had to.

Anyhow, this confluence of Davismania resulted in this picture:

Kim's old boy has a best wife-out-of-jail overall and a being-in-the-middling-big-city straw hat. I don't know if I'm just too much a NE espresso-sipping coastal out of touch liberal to recognize that's just folks outside my lane, or if we's bein' had (me being redneck by proxy at least on my mother's side). And that get-up is too country. Seems like meeting a presidential candidate or two at least merits one's church clothes, even the funeral/wedding/baptism ones.

But she's likely off again to the pokey because she needs to meddle.

We've no word on when Huckabee starts serving her sentence.

Also, Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" was played as she came out, and they never did approve that.