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marmar

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Wed Dec 23, 2015, 11:11 AM Dec 2015

Kim Davis: It's ironic that Gawwwd picked me to defend marriage [View all]





Kentucky clerk and same-sex marriage opponent Kim Davis has at least one thing in common with her biggest detractors: they both think she's lousy at marriage.

Davis, who famously refused to sign gay couples' marriage license because she said it went against "God’s definition of marriage," has been divorced three times.

"How ironic that God would use a person like me, who failed so miserably at marriage in the world, to defend it now," she told the Associated Press on Tuesday. "The Lord picks the unlikely source to convey the message."

According to public records, she has been married four times, twice to her current husband. Critics of Davis, like columnist and LGBT rights advocate Dan Savage, say that her behavior makes her anti-gay actions that much harder to swallow. ..............(more)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kim-davis-marriage-divorce_567a7b7ce4b06fa6887f7318




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