If you thought Hillary Clinton’s IT guy had a rough week, imagine how much fun Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis is having. She refused to issue marriage licenses in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision striking down a legal ban on same-sex nuptials and in doing so leapt into the crosshairs of every self-proclaimed “social justice warrior” the Democrats could drag out of their parents’ basements.
Now as far as I’m concerned, Davis’s intransigence is no different than a Muslim DMV staffer who refuses to issue driver’s licenses to women because Muhammad says “girls are crappy drivers,” or a county sheriff or police chief who drags his feet issuing concealed carry permits because some anti-Bill of Rights hate group like Moms Demand insists guns cause so-called “gun violence.” In a sense, I actually consider Davis to be worse. Clerk of Rowan County is an elected position. Davis swore an oath to dispense her duties in accordance with the law, not God’s law or her interpretation thereof. She promised to do the job. Like it or lump it, this is the job.
While I think some of the more colorful fates our liberal friends wish upon her are a bit extreme, I say: “Let’s go for it!” Davis doesn’t belong in jail or dead or some unappealing combination of the two, but let her suffer for forgetting the difference between her personal mores and the law. But let’s make the punishments fit the crimes. After all, if we’re going to publicly castigate public officials who have betrayed their offices and our trust, Davis is pretty far back in the line to the stocks.
Besides, why limit the fun to a bush-league functionary from the Eastern Kentucky hills? If we’re going to drop the hammer on those who trample on our trust, let’s pound in some of the bigger ones who insist on sticking out.
http://personalliberty.com/the-punishment-shall-fit-the-crime/
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