# Fuck you, Rowan County (KY) Clerk Kim Davis **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 13, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757 "2015-08-13T18:09:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/661 "2015-09-04T15:28:05Z")
Why? She apparently believes God cares if she wears her hair in a ponytail. Lady’s a total nutjob. ETA: or maybe she doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/662 "2015-09-04T15:31:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > She uses a barrette to pull back the front. The few pictures I saw it looked uncontrolled but I didn’t look all that closely. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/663 "2015-09-04T15:37:26Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Why? She apparently believes God cares if she wears her hair in a ponytail. Lady’s a total nutjob. > > ETA: or maybe she doesn’t. I think she wants people to believe she believes this crap. [but, to be fair, I think that about almost all “religious” people. I’ll admit to a certain bias, i.e., people can’t be that stupid.] ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/664 "2015-09-04T15:39:18Z")
This woman is another Cliven Bundy and I hope she screws up like he did. She doesn’t seem particularly smart or well spoken, surely it’s just a matter of time until she graces us with her theories on “butt pirates” or “the negro” and everyone will have to abandon her. > [@Gyrate](#): > > BTW, not to be outdone by Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee has announced that he’s going to Kentucky to “stand with Kim Davis”. “Standing with Kim Davis” is small time. If he was really serious about showing how the straight lifestyle is the lifestyle of the Righteous, he should “lay with Kim Davis.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/665 "2015-09-04T15:40:19Z")
Hey, Cliven Bundy got away with it. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/666 "2015-09-04T15:47:01Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I…I think I love you… > Seriously, **Anaamika** , please don’t make good on the threat you made in the **AprilR** pitting to leave the board. Your posts are always worth reading. > [@elbows](#): > > Sheesh! Tough crowd. > > I composed a different sentence, then after an edit, simply forgot to remove the apostrophes. It was a simply oversight. Having never made an oversight yourselves you can never know the true depth of the shame I feel. All I can do is prostrate myself before you ladies and beg your forgiveness that your poor eyes should have been exposed to the horror that is a typing error! Please accept my humblest apologies, in future I shall strive to emulate your ways that I too may reach punctuation perfection! > > School’s never out on the Dope! I normally don’t say anything, but that one really got my goat! It was like four times in one post and I tried to be nice about it. I admit misused apostrophes drive me batty. I remember reading a post long ago about this fellow who tried to quit smoking. He made himself a sign. The sign had a grammatical mistake. He said that watching his girlfriend freak at the mistake over and over again was more than enough entertainment to distract him from smoking. That is totally me - I want to carry around a magic marker to the grocery store sometime. Apple’s my ass. And I’m not leaving. It wasn’t a threat, just a comment. I still like this place a lot. 🙂 > [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > This is totally shallow of me, but her hair grosses me out. Couldn’t she at least braid it or tie it back into a pony tail or something? I saw a meme that was terrible but made me laugh: KIM DAVIS: WHEN YOU’RE SO ANTI GAY YOU CAN’T FIND ANYONE TO DO YOUR HAIR ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/667 "2015-09-04T15:50:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > This is Kentucky we are talking about here, folks. No way is the legislature going to impeach her. That puts them on the wrong side of the lord. They just won’t do it, no matter how much political sense it makes. Not gonna happen. > [@theR](#): > > No way. She will eventually fold and let others issue the licenses while claiming she is still standing by her beliefs and won the fight. > > If it’s true as someone stated that her mother was also the county clerk and her son works for her, she won’t be willing to give it up. Better to be a big fish in a small pond than a little fish for her 15 minutes in the big pond of national politics. The county clerk’s office is her family legacy and almost certainly makes her an important person even prior to this kerfuffle in county of only 20-some-thousand people. > > Either that or she’ll resign, try to make some money for a bit, then win the seat again and quietly let the office continue to issue the licenses. You two didn’t hear that whooshing sound did you? I’d’ve thought the last sentence of my post would have made the sarcasm obvious. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/668 "2015-09-04T15:50:48Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Apple’s my ass. It is? Mine’s a kiwi. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/669 "2015-09-04T15:53:18Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > It is? Mine’s a kiwi. Thank you for making my case for me! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/670 "2015-09-04T15:56:37Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Hey, Cliven Bundy got away with it. He waited to get racist until after the showdown didn’t he? Then everyone dropped him. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/671 "2015-09-04T16:49:38Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > He waited to get racist until after the showdown didn’t he? Then everyone dropped him. [Not everyone.](http://www.salon.com/2015/07/01/cliven_bundy_rand_pauls_new_bff_so_much_for_reaching_out_to_african_american_voters/) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/672 "2015-09-04T17:45:59Z")
Ignorance appears to be strong in the entire clan. [Today her husband said](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/us/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage.html), [QUOTE=Joe Davis] “She has done her job,” Mr. Davis [said (_sic_)]. “Just because five Supreme Court judges make a ruling, it’s not a law.” [/QUOTE] Last I heard, if the Supremes say a law is to be interpreted in thus-and-such a way, that means their interpretation is the way that law is to be read and enforced. You don’t have to agree with their judgement (\Citizens United\), but you still have to obey it unless and until you can get it changed. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/673 "2015-09-04T17:49:59Z")
Compared to Davis, I’d have to give Tennessee judge [Jeffrey Atherton](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/04/tenn-judge-refuses-to-grant-straight-couple-a-divorce-because-of-gay-marriage/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_p1most) the nod for petulant craziness. He has just refused to grant a straight couple a divorce. Why? Let him explain: > [@](#): > > “The Tennessee Court of Appeals has noted that Obergefell v. Hodges … affected what is, and must be recognized as, a lawful marriage in the State of Tennessee,” Atherton began. “This leaves a mere trial level Tennessee state court judge in a bit of a quandary. With the U.S. Supreme Court having defined what must be recognized as a marriage, it would appear that Tennessee’ s judiciary must now await the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court as to what is not a marriage, or better stated, when a marriage is no longer a marriage.” Some states’-rights blather follows, then: > [@](#): > > “Although this Court has some vague familiarity with the governmental theories of democracy, republicanism, socialism, communism, fascism, theocracy, and even despotism,” he begins sarcastically, “implementation of this apparently new ‘super-federal-judicial’ form of benign and benevolent government, termed ‘krytocracy’ by some and ‘judi-idiocracy’ by others, with its\*\* iron fist and limp wrist\*\*, represents quite a challenge for a state level trial court.” > > Faced with this “challenge,” Atherton’s decision is simply to throw his hands up in the air and claim that the Supreme Court’s decision had “divested subject matter jurisdiction from this court when a divorce is contested.” Bolding of a phrase I particularly enjoyed added. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/674 "2015-09-04T18:00:37Z")
Still scratching my head of this one: > “We don’t hate these people… We just wanna have the same rights that they have,” Joe Davis says about Gay couples. #KimDavis ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/675 "2015-09-04T18:09:52Z")
I find I have new insight into the phrase, " they don’t have to shove it down our throats!", in regards to gay marriage. I thought they were referencing the overt, openly gay acceptability. But now I see, they really do have to have things shoved down their throats. They claim to be proud of the democracy they live in, but are nothing but defiant when the wind doesn’t blow their way and they find themselves on the minority side of an issue. Ugh! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/676 "2015-09-04T18:13:50Z")
Some of them may well \*want \*… um, something, shoved down their throats, given how often they use the term, knowhamean? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/677 "2015-09-04T18:44:41Z")
She should look at the bright side. Her wardrobe has been dramatically upgraded! I’m sure she’s feeling all smug and martyrie, and now Huckelberry is going to visit her and pray with her in jail. Maybe she can get a book deal out of this. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/678 "2015-09-04T18:50:04Z")
Davis said she’s a different person since becoming a Christian 4½ years ago. “I am not perfect,” she said in a statement. “No one is. But I am forgiven.” No you stupid baboon, being forgiven is NOT a license to be a complete asshole in the future because God will forgive you. If this is what you think Christianity is, then you are not a Christian, you’re an opportunist. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/679 "2015-09-04T18:53:24Z")
She obviously hasn’t yet reached the part in Sunday School about where only the repentant are forgiven. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/680 "2015-09-04T19:00:11Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > I’m thinking as she sits and rots in her cell, members of the Legislature will push for the Governor to call a special session so they can impeach her and rescue her. That way she can start her book tour/campaign appearances in Iowa. I don’t see Judge Bunning caving in anytime soon. > > Impeaching her gets everyone off the hook and lets the GOP turn a loss into a PR victory. Surely, Rove or Priebus will realize the opportunity they have and put the wheels in motion! The members of the Legislature actually want to pass a special law protecting her. The Democratic governor said he will not be calling a special session. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757.md?page=35)