Legal Counsel Firm For Kim Davis Is On The Southern Poverty Law Centers Hate Group Watch List
The legal counsel representing Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has been a longtime anti-LBGT law firm. The Liberty Counsel has a history of making bizarre and mean-spirited comments about the gay community.
At this point, it’s unclear if Davis requested the firm’s legal counsel or if the Liberty legal counsel law firm sought Davis out. Turns out the Davis case has become the Liberty Counsel highest profile case to date. The firm has represented Alabama probate judges who refused to grant same-sex marriages, as well as Scott Lively, the Massachusetts preacher who was involved in the”crimes against humanity“case in Uganda against that countries gay citizens.
Legal Counsel for Kim Davis, Mathew Staver, and his wife, founded Liberty Counsel in 1989. Here is where this side show we now know as the “Kim Davis Affair” gets real slimy. The Liberty Counsel is affiliated with the Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg Virginia. The pet project and strong arm of the late Jerry Falwell, Mr. Extreme Radical Christian Right himself.
Mathew Staver, the legal counsel for Kim Davis, still serves as the director of the Liberty Center for Law and Policy at Liberty University and provides legal assistance concerning religious liberty, abortion, and the family. The organization has incorporated a broad range of radical right dogmas. They’re the organization that accused the Obama Administration of spreading a “Liberal Socialist Agenda.”
There have been several statements released by the Liberty Counsel over the years that have landed them on the Southern Poverty Law Center watch list. You can now add the comment that “Kim Davis is being treated like a Jew in Nazi Germany“ to that list.
In a 2014 appearance by Staver legal counsel for Kim Davis on the “Faith and Freedom” radio program went as far as to say he approved of the barbaric treatment of gay people by Vladimir Putin in Russia.
“They’re reaffirming marriage as one man and one woman,” Staver said at the time. “Russia is one of those countries recently that did that. Latin American countries have reaffirmed marriage as one man and one woman. Then other countries around the world are reaffirming marriage as one man and one woman and rejecting this radicalized homosexual agenda.”
There has been a return of the “Christian Right” to its racist past. Now included in this legacy of hate, bigotry, and violence are people associated with the LGBT community who love each other and want to formalize their love for a myriad of reasons.
