Perhaps I wasn’t clear. In the county where I work, there is one Deputy Clerk. They would step in if the Clerk gets hit by a bus. Everyone else in the department are ‘staff/administration’
I think the use of the word Deputy Clerk applied to all of them is either something quaint in that particular office, or the term is being used wrong by the media. And us.
The law abiding citizens who will receive their licenses as a direct result of this jailing might disagree with that.
I feel bad for her in a way. She hates gays so much, nobody will style her hair.
It’s more likely that your locality is the one with the quaint usage. Deputy Clerk is - at least in the South - the title generally used by anyone who can issue or certify a document under the clerk’s authority.
If she wants to be a martyr so much, take her out back and stone her for adultery. Win-win.
And “deputy” in general is often used that way - a “deputy sheriff” is the person in the patrol car, and "deputy district attorney " is used in the same way that “assistant district attorney” is used in other places. Neither of those are resricted to the second-in-command- different titles are used for that position, such as “undersheriff” or “chief deputy” or “first deputy”. The difference is that the sheriff and district attorney generally have administrative/clerical employees who are not their deputies and due to the nature of the job that may not be the case in a relatively small clerk’s office.
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 will presume that she interprets plaiting as any kind of hair restraint or binding.
Also, bigotry based on sexual orientation and bigotry based on the state one was born or resides in are both wrong. There’s no real difference between “Gays are diseased perverts!” and “Kentuckians are incestuous hillbillies!”.
Well, one is accurate. 
And nobody is suggesting we should take away Kentuckians’ civil rights.
Even the Duggar girls use barretts.
Yeah, just imagine her cooking dinner, with her hair hanging down like that.
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RNATB is correct. Until there’s a national movement to deny marriage certificates to Kentuckians, there IS a real difference. And I say this as someone who thinks anyone spouting off about Kentuckians is an ignorant asshole.
That difference isn’t in the message, though, but rather the cultural context. The messages are equally bigoted, with the same purpose: dehumanizing a group of people to make them easier to hate.
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there!
I agree. I don’t think it’s necessary to make generalizations about Kentuckians. Hell, I don’t think it’s necessary to discuss Davis’ ugly hair or even her personal moral failings. It all just detracts from the real story.
Can we discuss her religion?
Sure. But it’s really not relevant from a legal perspective. Nobody is going to argue that she doesn’t sincerely believe in this nonsense, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s internally inconsistent.
Yes, of course we can.
She sure is a great advertisement for Christianity, isn’t she?
–Ulf, Sunday school teacher, former choir member, longtime clerk of the vestry, etc. etc.
I have a hard time believing she “really believes in this nonsense.” I haven’t paid too much attention to her actual religious claims, but I’m skeptical that she honestly believes her god cares if she does her damn job.
She uses a barrette to pull back the front.