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> "If there ever was a case of exceptional importance," Staver wrote, "the first individual in the Republic's history who was jailed for following her religious
by sd_mikey 1y ago
> "If there ever was a case of exceptional importance," Staver wrote, "the first individual in the Republic's history who was jailed for following her religious convictions regarding the historic definition of marriage, this should be it."
Kim Davis has been married four times to three men [1][2].
She had twins in 1994, five months after divorcing her first husband, with the biological father being the man who later became her third husband, which seems to point to an affair during the marriage [1][3][2].
If this is about upholding Christian convictions, her own history doesn’t exactly model them.
[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/01/kentucky-clerk-fighting-gay-marriage-has-wed-four-times https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/01/kentucky-cle...
[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-clerk-same-sex-marriage-kim-davis-turbulent-marital-history/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-clerk-same-sex-marriag...
[3] https://people.com/celebrity/kim-davis-married-four-times-refuses-to-issue-same-sex-marriage-licenses/ https://people.com/celebrity/kim-davis-married-four-times-re...
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