More about Kentucky's ignorant bigot of the week: Kim Davis

You've probably already heard or read the recent story about Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk in Kentucky who refused to sign same-gender marriage licenses, and is now appealing her right to not do her job to the Supreme Court. Talk about a waste of taxpayers' money all around!
ThinkProgress just posted an article with the heading:

Kentucky County Trying To Fire Clerk Who Won't Issue Marriage Licenses

Click the title just above to read the whole article. Let's hope this is true and that she will be removed from office. The article relates:

"Davis is apparently arguing that her civil rights protect her from being terminated for misconduct over her nonperformance of a key duty of the job for which she is paid."(Underlined emphasis theirs)

Employers often modify a staff member's job description and duties. Imagine you're Mormon and your boss requires you to fetch or make coffee. Can you object to doing that because your religion forbids coffee? Or pick any of a thousand scenarios. If any of us dared to defy an employer and refuse to do a fundamental task associated with our job, we'd be swiftly booted.

Another excuse in her twisted reasoning is the assertion that if she's forced to do her job: 

". . . there is no absolution or correction that any earthly court can provide to rectify.” (Underlined emphasis taken directly from her filing.)

If she believes in a god, why would any of her earthly deeds or activities matter? After all, her god will know what's in her heart and, according to her beliefs, the only one qualified to judge her will be that god at the end of her life.

If everyone refused to comply with a law or rule on "religious" grounds, there would be no laws or rules, or so many exceptions that anarchy would prevail. Granting her petition would set a dangerous precedent and once that bell is rung, it cannot be unrung.

In How a Kentucky Clerk Became an Ultimate Symbol of Bigotry (HuffPost piece by

Michelangelo Signorile), it states "Casey County Clerk Casey Davis (no relation to Kim Davis) has been on a bike ride across the state in support of the Rowan County clerk,

Photo: Associated Press

doing interviews along the way and saying he is ready to "die" for the cause of discrimination.

"It's a war on Christianity," Casey Davis said in one radio interview. "If it takes it, I will go to jail over -- if it takes my life, I will die for because I believe I owe that to the people that fought so I can have the freedom that I have, I owe that to them today, and you do, we all do."

Kim Davis isn't willing to stand up for her beliefs and principles. If she felt that strongly, she would quit. But she'd rather keep collecting $70,000 every year for not doing her job.

This hypocritical martyr confirms the unabating pervasive ignorance across our country. Are you frightened and embarrassed by the number of small-minded bigots? I am.