Originally <a href='http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=24461093'>posted</a> on 09/03/2015:

How can anyone possibly support Kim davis here. She has been married 4 times, and had at least 2 kids out of wedlock. But refuses to issue same sex marriage licenses because its against her "religious beliefs". Are you penetrating kidding me ? How about living by your religious beliefs before you try to force other people to live by them you dumb oyster. These extremist Christians must be stopped and I hope they keep this dumb oyster locked up for 10 years.

The underlying issue here is not how many times Ms. Davis has been married, or even if she’s married at all. The problem is her apparent decision to pick and choose on what biblical grounds should control who is able to obtain a license authorized by law.
First of all, the bible is silent on the question of whether gays can marry. There is a verse prohibiting a specific act between two men; nothing more. It says nothing about acts between women.
The bible does, however address the subject of marriage specifically in many places. We read that, with God’s apparent approval, patriarchs married more than one woman, had children by their handmaidens as well, and, in at least one case, married seven hundred women. (It’s good to be the king!) We also read that biblical marriage includes soldiers marrying women they capture in combat and that a rapist should be made to marry the virgin he rapes. When we get to the Christian new testament, we also discover that divorce is no longer permitted except in the case of adultery, and that those who are divorced should not remarry.
Given that information, it would appear that Davis really ought to be making her stand when confronted with someone who’s divorced and seeks to remarry. What will her position be if a soldier drags an unwilling Iraqi woman into the court clerk’s office, stating that he captured her in the war and wants to marry her? It’s biblical… And if a rapist decides he wants to atone by marrying his victim (there’s nothing in scripture requiring the victim to consent to the marriage), will she be forthcoming with a marriage license?
We also see that the bible is disapproving of marriage between believers and non-believers. If a member of Davis’s church comes in with an atheist seeking a marriage license, is she going to refuse to issue a license, or is her “principled stand” just limited to a group she personally reviles?
Those who pick and choose which particular “sin” prohibitions need to be enforced under civil law while ignoring the ones which they themselves might be tempted to commit or have already committed are hypocrites. When I see a court clerk refusing to issue a license to a couple on biblical grounds because one of them is divorced, or because one of them isn’t a believer, it’ll be a different story. Until then, I’ll continue to call them out on it. (And before anyone asks, no, I don’t believe that a court clerk has any right to refuse to perform her duties because doing so would permit someone to do something in which she doesn’t believe. If she can’t do her job, she should find a different one.)