An Open Letter to Kim Davis
Dear Kim Davis:
As you may know, when you fall in love with someone, you hand your heart and soul over to them. Anyone who has committed to sharing their life with another human and forming a family unit knows that it is the biggest and most rewarding adventure you will ever take.
You know that all of the laughs and all of the tears won’t fall on the echo of an empty room, but will instead be received in the warm embrace of someone who has pledged to see you at your best and love you at your worst. You know that person is there to help pick you up on those days when the odds are stacked against you. You know that you never have to do the dishes alone.
When I met John, I had no idea that I would spend the next two decades building a life with the man who would one day inspire me to demand our right to be recognized by our country. I earned the right to lawfully call him my husband, just as you have a right to call your husband such. Love transcends gender.
You’re imposing the same indignities on couples in Rowan County that John and I suffered when Ohio would not legally recognize us as a married couple. Thankfully, the law is now changed so that nobody should ever have to experience the injustice that John and I endured. No one is above the law, Kim, not even you.
I joined the fight to have our love treated equally precisely because our love is equal. The love that any family shares is no more or less worthy than that of any other, and it’s not fair for you, or anyone, to judge. It’s your job to simply do your job. Issuing a marriage license at work is not a personal endorsement of my marriage any more than recording a deed is an endorsement of my home ownership.
It’s simply following the rules in this civil society in which we’ve all agreed to be members.
What truly matters is the kindness and compassion we share with our families and with those around us. Love makes a family. And as of June 2015 the federal government agrees.
I did not fight for my right to call John my husband in vain. I stand today in his memory and proudly declare him my legally wedded spouse. Do not stand in the way of others seeking their legal right to have their love recognized.
Sincerely,
Jim Obergefell & 10,245 ACLU Supporters
because our love is equal.
I won't even bother wasting my time at this level of cognitive dissonance. The truly sorry part about it is that there is a significant percentage of Americans who actually agree with him. May God have mercy...
“No one is above the law, Kim, not even you.”
That’s right. Kentucky has law on the books, a state constitutional amendment no less, that specifically prohibits her from issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples.
There is no Federal Law. Yeah, I know the “Supreme Court spoke”. Does any one else find it strange that 5 SCOTUS judges can nullify the will of a state’s popular vote on a state amendment?
Pope Francis said everyone, even a lowly county official like Kim Davis, has a right to be a conscientious objector and to refuse to participate in any way in a “gay” “marriage.”
Only to be badly outweighed by their hatred for those who disagree.
Someone should tell Obergefell his 15 minutes are up.
What law is she violating?
A few decades ago, a radio station in New York had a TV ad in which a guy who looks like Rodin’s The Thinker has his boom box and he’s turning the radio dial. The first thing he finds is a punk rock station where some woman is singing, “I love your eyes so much I want to poke them out. I love your legs so much I want to break tehm off.”
then he flips and lands on a country station. There’s a guy singing, “I want to marry my horse, but I can’t afford a bridal [bridle] suite.”
Suddenly, that isn’t quit as ridiculous as it sounds. (Funny, though.)
notice this guy is no Libertarian. His “rights” trump others. He’s not willing to live and let live.
So when I hear those on the Right express agreement for gay “marriage” I find they are naive and useful idiots carrying the water for the homonazis who aren’t interested in liberty for all
Calling this queer a man is an insult to men. Every male queer is by practice of their behavior a coprophiliac—someone obsessed with human excrement for sexual gratification.
So what is the law, Jim? Specifically?