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The Constitution
is amazing in that it is a straightforward document, yet it’s open for
interpretation and amendment. It sets down the core of our republic, our
democracy and the basis for all law. Nowhere in our founding document
does the word “God” appear. Not even once.
Fast forward to Tuesday afternoon, when Kim Davis, right-wing Evangelical poster child of the moment, was released from jail.
The Kentucky county clerk was held on contempt charges for refusing to
issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because it violated her
Christian beliefs. Just how fleeting her Christian celebrity will be is
in the hands of Mike Huckabee and other religio-political zealots, who
currently find her ridiculous act of civil disobedience useful to
fundraising and campaigning.
Instead of her husband
pulling the car around to unceremoniously take her home after her
six-day ordeal, former Arkansas Governor, preacher, author, musician and
Republican presidential candidate Huckabee set the stage. Literally.
Davis walked out of the jail to the stirring 1980’s Survivor classic
Eye of The Tiger and into the warm embrace of a tearful Huckabee; the
whole scene was witnessed by an adoring crowd holding up bibles and
crosses affixed to sticks, in ecstasy over her release.
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