Baptist Pastor Crushes Kim Davis And The Hypocrisy Of His Fellow Evangelicals In Open Letter
The letter:
"Since I am a pastor of a southern Baptist church please allow me to weigh in on the case of Kim Davis, the lady in Kentucky who refuses to issue a marriage licenses to a same sex couple.
First: This is not a case of the government forcing anyone to violate their religious belief. She is free to quit her job. If she quits her job to honor God surely God would take care of her.
Second: This is not a case of someone trying to uphold the sanctity of marriage. If she wanted to uphold the sanctity of marriage she should not have been married four different times. If she is worried about her name being affixed to a marriage license that goes against a biblical definition of marriage, she should not have her name on the last three marriage licenses given to her.
Third: This seems to be a case of someone looking to cash in on the religious right. Churches all across the south will throw money at her to come and tell congregations how the evil American government put her in jail because of her faith in Jesus.
This is why we are losing.
This is why people have such disdain for evangelicals.
Not because we disagree but because we don’t take the bible seriously. If ever there was a case of “he who is without sin cast the first stone”, this is it. If ever there was a “take the log out of your eye” moment, this is it.
We must stop looking to the government to make America a Christian utopia. Our kingdom is not of this world.
We must abandon all thoughts of fixing others and let Jesus fix us.
If we want sanctity of marriage then stop cheating, stop having affairs, stop looking at porn, stop getting divorces. That is the way for the church to stand up for the biblical definition of marriage, not by someone martyring their self-righteous self."
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Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin. He's a Christian and a Pastor. She is not a Pastor. So, who is right, here?
Hmmmm???
In all fairness, some truth of the facts should be presented here. Ms. Davis won her election to County Clerk by an overwhelming majority of the voters of her county. At the time of her election to office, marriage was pretty much defined as the union between one man and one woman. The Supreme Court decision redefining marriage has only recently been given. The fact still remains that the Kentucky Legislature still has not changed that state's law defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman. Now, since she was elected by the people of her County to uphold the laws of their county and the state of Kentucky, would she not be violating her oath of office were she to issue licenses in direct conflict with the law of her county and her state? She even went so far as to ask that judge who sentenced her to jail "What law am I violating here?" and she received no answer to her question. The simple fact is that she is an official of her county and of her state and is sworn to uphold their law.
You make a pretty nice argument, and you word it very well, too. But before she is duty sworn to uphold the laws or her state, she is first duty sworn to uphold the US Constitution, and by extension, the interpretation of law that comes from the US Supreme Court. This issue of federal vs. state was cleared up a long, long, long time ago.
So she runs the risk of being placed under arrest by the governor of Kentucky if she violates the Kentucky law? I say the judge should have ordered the Kentucky legislature to convene and pass legislation that coincides with Federal Law in order to prevent just such conflicts as these from occurring. What the Supreme Court did was make new law that voided the will of the people in several states. That judge over-reached, even the ACLU said so.
Wrong.
The Supreme Court invalidated state measures that violated the due process and equal protection rights of gay Americans, making no 'new law,' to maintain that it did is a lie.
Nor was the will of the people 'voided,' to maintain that it was is also a lie.
The residents of the states that passed un-Constitutional measures hostile to gay American never had the authority to deny same-sex couples their inalienable rights – one does not forfeit his inalienable rights merely as a consequence of his state of residence; that the Supreme Court invalidated those measures repugnant to the Constitution is the fault of the states that enacted them, they have only themselves to blame.