“I’m here for a short while in preparation for eternity,” Kim Davis told ABC’s Good Morning America in 2015. “That’s what we’re here for. It’s a heaven or hell issue for me.”

“Religious freedom and conscience go hand in hand,” said Kim. “You can’t separate them. If you’ve got a conscience and you love God, those two go hand in hand just like hand in glove.”

Liberty Counsel heads to Kim’s final trial next month, and then we have our sights set on the U.S. Supreme Court to defend religious freedom and to overturn the Obergefell “same-sex marriage” opinion. —Mat

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Kim Davis says her decision to not issue same-sex marriage licenses while Clerk of rural Rowan County, KY, was not about discrimination against anyone. Kim has friends who “know my beliefs and we respect each other,” she says. “This whole situation has never been a gay or lesbian issue for me. … It's all about upholding the Word of God.”

Following the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell opinion, Kim, a born-again Christian for just over four years requested religious accommodation, but then-Governor Steve Beshear, a Democrat, denied her request.

“I never imagined a day like this would come, where I would be asked to violate a central teaching of Scripture and of Jesus Himself regarding marriage,” Kim says. “To issue a marriage license which conflicts with God’s definition of marriage, with my name affixed to the certificate, would violate my conscience. It is not a light issue for me. It is a Heaven-or-Hell decision. For me, it is a decision of obedience.”

While appealing, Kim stopped issuing any marriage licenses as she waited for an answer.

It was just a short drive to any of the seven other counties that surround Rowan County. The same-sex couples seeking a marriage license could have gone to one of those counties and had their licenses issued immediately while Kim waited for her appeal. But instead, those couples targeted Kim to make her an example because she was a Christian.

The vile atmosphere that overtook Kim’s county office and her personal life were astounding. The normally quiet office suddenly filled with out-of-state protesters carrying nasty signs and shouting insults. Work and personal phones were overwhelmed with horrific threats.

One caller threatened to burn Kim’s house down as she and her family slept. Another man threatened to brutally rape Kim as her bound husband, Joe, watched, and then the man would burn Kim, Joe, and their kids alive.

Joe took to touring their property every night with his dogs, a shotgun in the truck gun rack and a pistol at his side to ensure his family’s safety.

One of the insults hurled at Kim was that she was a hypocrite. As Kim’s story went viral, news broke that Kim had been married four times and that she had children from an adulterous affair.

But her mother-in-law’s deathbed request had turned Kim’s life upside down four years before 2015. This godly mother-in-law asked Kim to get right with the Lord and go back to church. Kim went to a tiny country chapel that very night, where a sermon on God’s grace and forgiveness redeemed Kim and brought her to the foot of the cross.

Because of that unmerited forgiveness, Kim fell in love with the Lord and realized she “must be obedient to Him and to the Word of God.” That included not using her authority to issue licenses that defied God’s perfect design.

When asked on Good Morning America if she was a “hypocrite,” Kim said, “No. I’m just forgiven.” She also gave a powerful presentation of the gospel.

Kim was not the only County Clerk to request a religious accommodation after the SCOTUS same-sex marriage ruling, by the way. In fact, County Clerks in other states also requested religious exemption from endorsing gay marriage with their signatures and authority.

Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin and the state legislature implemented religious accommodations for government employees like Kim.

But the LGBTQ mob still want their pound of flesh from the born-again Christian in rural Rowan County, KY. Now they are trying to bankrupt Kim, personally, for daring to exercise her religious freedom rights.

Jury selection will begin September 11 for our case defending Kim.

Former Kentucky Gov. Bevin once said, “When history called upon Kim, she was both ready and willing to respond. Will the same be said of you?”

We intend to take Kim’s case to the Supreme Court to (1) win the right to religious accommodation, and (2) overturn Obergefell.

In our 2020 emergency petition to the High Court, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said: “This petition implicates important questions about the scope of our decision in Obergefell.”

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But wait, there’s more ...

HR 15, the so called “Equality Act,” is the next assault on religious freedom. If passed, this bill will eliminate the religious freedom protections that Kim’s case codified into law. It will also erase all other state and federal religious freedom protections.

People like Kim, and even churches, will be forced, under command of federal law, to violate their faith to comply with the LGBTQ agenda.

Radical LGBTQ leftists only need to peel off six Republicans to make HR 15 the law of the land and erase religious freedom forever. Please fax Congress now and demand they VOTE NO on HR 15.

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

Sources:

“Kim Davis INTERVIEW | Defends Denying Same-Sex Marriage Licenses.” 2015. YouTube Video. YouTube. Youtu.be/ZgQzGkHgR_k.

“Kim Davis on Her Time in Jail, Her Newfound Notoriety.” YouTube. ABC News. Accessed August 18, 2023. Youtu.be/BvqB_XT7cv4.

“What If God Called You to Speak Out? Are You Ready?” Liberty Counsel. Accessed August 17, 2023. Lc.org/kim.