D.B. of the Week: Kim Davis
Wow.
There is a great desire to go back and check the past D.B.'s of the Week to figure out who might be number one.
This week's winner:
Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk, might actually be in the running as the greatest of all of the D.B.'s.
We all know the story by now, right?
Davis is an elected official who has a job to issue marriage licenses in her county. There's no disputing that it is a part of her job. Well, the law of the land changed recently and gays were granted the right to be married under Federal Law.
Davis doesn't agree.
Which is fine.
This is America.
We can all think for ourselves.
Davis, evidently believes in the sanctity of marriage as handed down in the law of her religion. Marriage is between a man and a woman, in her mind. In her religion, God does not want gay marriage.
Still all good.
She is not being stopped in believing what she wants to believe.
It doesn't even matter that in her religion God also frowns upon Divorce 1, Divorce 2, Divorce 3, children outside of marriage, and the 4th and final marriage, we hope.
After all, who are we to judge her?
But this is where the story steps into D.B. territory:
You can't bring your religious beliefs into work and frown upon or judge others. You can't refuse to do what your job requires you to do because you have different beliefs than the person standing across the counter.
What if you worked selling pork sandwiches but your religion forbade the eating of pork?
Can you refuse to sell pork?
And still keep your job?
What if your religion forbade the use of cars and you worked as a used car salesman?
Can you not sell a car?
In both of those instances noted above, you'd be fired for not doing your job.
That simple.
But here's the rub.
Davis is spinning it, saying that her voice is not being heard and that by silencing her stand on gay marriage, people are taking away her rights to celebrate her religion.
Wow.
That's dense.
There has to be a separation between church and state.
Has to be.
You know why?
We don't all have the same beliefs!
There are a whole lot of different religions!!
Thinking your faith is the only faith that matters is actually pretty mind-boggling.
Some of us frown on being hypocritical, for example.
Davis received four marriage licenses.
Four!
Could someone along the way have refused her right to get another one based on the fact that she was making a sham of the whole ''til death do you part' thing?
It's a dangerous thing when people start refusing to do their job based on what they perceive the life of the person across the counter to be.
Anyone can be judgmental about anything!
There as an excellent Family Guy episode where Peter started a church that had Arthur Fonzarelli as the god. At face value it was a silly twist on the whole religion experience.
With Fonzie as his god, Peter did all sorts of crazy and whacked out things that a whole lot of people thought were pretty silly.
But Peter believed.
He had the right to believe.
Listen, D.B. of the Week...Peter's rights can't trample the rights of others...
Family Guy made that apparent.
Is Peter's faith in his god a good starting point to set the laws of the land?
Of course not!
Kim Davis' faith isn't either.
Congrats on D.B. of the Week.
There is a great desire to go back and check the past D.B.'s of the Week to figure out who might be number one.
This week's winner:
Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk, might actually be in the running as the greatest of all of the D.B.'s.
We all know the story by now, right?
Davis is an elected official who has a job to issue marriage licenses in her county. There's no disputing that it is a part of her job. Well, the law of the land changed recently and gays were granted the right to be married under Federal Law.
Davis doesn't agree.
Which is fine.
This is America.
We can all think for ourselves.
Davis, evidently believes in the sanctity of marriage as handed down in the law of her religion. Marriage is between a man and a woman, in her mind. In her religion, God does not want gay marriage.
Still all good.
She is not being stopped in believing what she wants to believe.
It doesn't even matter that in her religion God also frowns upon Divorce 1, Divorce 2, Divorce 3, children outside of marriage, and the 4th and final marriage, we hope.
After all, who are we to judge her?
But this is where the story steps into D.B. territory:
You can't bring your religious beliefs into work and frown upon or judge others. You can't refuse to do what your job requires you to do because you have different beliefs than the person standing across the counter.
What if you worked selling pork sandwiches but your religion forbade the eating of pork?
Can you refuse to sell pork?
And still keep your job?
What if your religion forbade the use of cars and you worked as a used car salesman?
Can you not sell a car?
In both of those instances noted above, you'd be fired for not doing your job.
That simple.
But here's the rub.
Davis is spinning it, saying that her voice is not being heard and that by silencing her stand on gay marriage, people are taking away her rights to celebrate her religion.
Wow.
That's dense.
There has to be a separation between church and state.
Has to be.
You know why?
We don't all have the same beliefs!
There are a whole lot of different religions!!
Thinking your faith is the only faith that matters is actually pretty mind-boggling.
Some of us frown on being hypocritical, for example.
Davis received four marriage licenses.
Four!
Could someone along the way have refused her right to get another one based on the fact that she was making a sham of the whole ''til death do you part' thing?
It's a dangerous thing when people start refusing to do their job based on what they perceive the life of the person across the counter to be.
Anyone can be judgmental about anything!
There as an excellent Family Guy episode where Peter started a church that had Arthur Fonzarelli as the god. At face value it was a silly twist on the whole religion experience.
With Fonzie as his god, Peter did all sorts of crazy and whacked out things that a whole lot of people thought were pretty silly.
But Peter believed.
He had the right to believe.
Listen, D.B. of the Week...Peter's rights can't trample the rights of others...
Family Guy made that apparent.
Is Peter's faith in his god a good starting point to set the laws of the land?
Of course not!
Kim Davis' faith isn't either.
Congrats on D.B. of the Week.
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