You've got to feel sorry for Morehead. It's been the butt of teenage hill critter humor for decades. Now, thanks to Kim Davis, it's the backdrop for dumb hillbilly jokes nation wide.
Many of you may not know that the same refusal to issue marriage licenses ridiculed in Rowan county is repeating in at least 15 other counties around the country. Why so much coverage of the incident in the shadow of a our own fine little state university?
Same sex marriage not heading to Morehead.
William Randolph Hearst and John Foster Kane would have loved that headline. Mr. Murdoch is no dummy.
A born again ole regular 3 time divorcee coming down to save marriage for the decent folk. Taking a stand for the sanctimonious and Leviticus which is probably redundant. It really comes down to an extreme case of "you can't tell me what to do" knuckleheaded logic.
Day after day, a couple comes in for a marriage license. Day after day, the selfies and cable news cameras record the refusal, once again, to issue a license. Day after day of berating one another while exeryone's tax dollars are wasted inside. It's a circus and the clowns and trapeze artists are in a war over the center ring.
You'd think if somebody wanted a marriage license that bad, they'd try the next county over. It must be that Morehead appeal, right? Couldn't be the opportunity to be a hero to your club? Could it?
That is a prize coveted by both principles in this dance.
Let me make my position clear here. This woman has no right nor ground to stand on. She isn't exhibiting what I believe to be spiritual guidance. And her stand is doing nothing for religious freedom. In our country, your religious rights end where mine begin. Possibly easier to comprehend, your religious rights end where the laws begin.
Again for clarity, the laws of the land trump your religious belief. Ask the Mormons. Ask the Coptics. Ask the peyote eating native Americans. It's possible by the time you've read this, Davis and her entire office staff will be charged with contempt of court. And of course they should be.
But there's another thing I'd wish for. That's when the judge gets through with the self-righteous county clerk, he takes aim at the legal team that continue to advise her to break state and federal law. The last thing they're interested in is their client's well being. They not only want a world without gay marriage, they want one without gay at all. In their version of Christianity, Leviticus trumps Jesus every time.
They want a martyr and you have to wonder if Mrs. Davis really sees what the end game is. I'm thinking all she really sees is bright lights.
Anyway, whatever she gets, they should get 100 fold. Fines, jail time, forced viewings of The Birdcage.
Of course it won't happen, we have a system that encourages bad actions by lawyers. But it can be my fantasy can't it?
Don't tell me I can't have a fantasy in an article about a place called Morehead. That would be downright unnatural!