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In reply to the discussion: Kim Davis perp walk. In leg chains and handcuffed. And still clearly in need of a designer. [View all]mnhtnbb
(33,492 posts)What's she doing? Denying people the right to a marriage license...something she's been
able to obtain four times...which suggests she's either had lousy luck at love, or made
bad decisions, or hasn't met the right person, or maybe, just maybe, she's not a happy
person and doesn't attract happy people to her.
Personally, I think the woman feels as though she's a loser. She has joined
a church which demeans women--tells them how to dress, what to wear,
how to style their hair--and she thinks she is of little value. Many times
people with low opinions of themselves will find ways to devalue someone else--
because that makes them feel more worthy--so it fits that she'd--as a devalued
woman in a patriarchal fundy church--find a way to allow herself to feel
superior by denying gays--especially males--a right to do something she herself
has done four times. Just look! Jesus loves her and not gays! She must be worth
something after all.
On top of that, she's never been anywhere. Never traveled. Never lived anywhere else.
She is totally provincial. Her religion wants her that way: members are advised to live
apart from the world. She grew up with authority figures: worked for her mother for
20 some years in the same job. Claims she found Jesus as a result of a mother in law
who wanted her to join the church. This is not a woman who is used to making decisions
for herself--at least ones that turn out well (4 marriages), so maybe she figures she
should submit to the authority of "God".
Well, ok. She's entitled to make that choice. But she is NOT entitled to abuse or
not the follow the oath of office she took when she was sworn in as County Clerk.
So, for now, she is where she belongs. In jail. The US is a nation of laws, not
individual people deciding to follow whatever law they want whenever they want
because of whatever peculiar religious notion they may hold.