Kim Davis Loses Forever

Poor Oppressed Christian icon Kim Davis has been rejected by the Supreme Court. Her bid to overturn same-sex marriage in the United States was declined by the heavily right-wing court, which leaves the appeals court decision against her bid in place. This was her last chance to appeal, so she now owes hundreds of thousands in judgements and legal fees. She has officially lost her case.

An appeal of a verdict against controversial former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, which also took aim at a 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage throughout the country, will not be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court.The decision was issued Nov. 10 in an order list from the high court. No reason for the denial was included in the two-sentence ruling.

Davis, who drew international attention to her Northeastern Kentucky community 10 years ago when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, had called on the court to strike down a 2023 court verdict that found she owed $100,000 to a couple who she had denied a license in 2015. Her attorneys with Liberty Counsel had also pushed for the Supreme Court to use her case to overturn the Obergefell decision.

Davis is a cautionary tale about how far these extremists will go. She originally argued that due to her religious beliefs she should be exempted from having to personally sign off on same-sex marriage paperwork. At the time I didn't have a problem with that as long as same-sex marriages were approved in as timely and efficient a manner as opposite-sex ones. Multiple people without objections worked in Davis' office, so it was clearly possible. But I should have known better and I'll cop to that.

Give an inch to these idiots and they'll do their best to take a mile - hundreds if they can. They won't rest until they can force all of us to conform to their restrictive religious laws whether we share their beliefs or not. Which, when you break it down, really shows they have no faith whatsoever in their religion. Let's face it - if you really believe that your god is going to punish people in the afterlife for all eternity, why do you care what they get up to during their relatively brief time on Earth?

I have mentioned before that while I personally reject the literal interpretation of the End Times and/or Apocalypse, if I'm wrong these faithless performative Christians clearly represent the "falling away" described in Matthew 7:22-23.

On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Don't believe me? Christian Nationalists support literal Nazis. How much more lawless do they need to get before it's obvious to everyone? For that matter, Jesus said nothing about abortion or homosexuality and lots about helping the poor, but they hold up those first two as the most important issues for Christians and ignore the latter, even actively working to persecute anyone experiencing poverty.I'm not Christian, but if I were I would be calling these folks out over and over again from whatever pulpit I had available.

If God is really going to send sinners to a place of eternal torment in the afterlife - and again, to be clear, I don't personally believe that - there's plenty of evidence these folks will be getting front row seats. And any mainstream Christian considering supporting their agenda should think long and hard about that. Do you really want to be stuck in Hell for all eternity with losers like Davis and my apostate ass?