Re: Kim Davis And Pope Francis Had A Private Meeting In D.C.
With the news of the pope’s meeting with Kim Davis swirling today, it’s worth reiterating: Kim Davis is free to believe whatever she wants about gay marriage, and we cannot realistically expect the head of the Catholic Church to take any position other than one sympathetic to her on this matter.
But this is not the point. The United States government, and the state government of Kentucky (modeled on the Constitution), does not mirror or represent any one stripe of Christianity, Christianity in general, or any other religion.
There is nothing more un-American than the idea that the government or its representatives should act on behalf of one particular religious ideology. This is what the Founders most feared, and why freedom from (proscribed) religion kicks off the Bill of Rights.
Kim Davis unquestionably broke the law, which is grounds for impeachment. She did it not to expand the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to more Americans (as the Civil Rights movement sought to do), but to constrain that right.
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