The Kim Davis saga has sparked huge debates all over the country over the concept of liberty.
Her supporters feel that she is fighting the good fight for Christ. And that man made law should never go against “God’s Law.”
Of course her supporters have a very selective interpretation of “God’s Law”, but their reasoning is so convoluted that pointing it out is a waste of time. These people are so eager for a doggy treat from their god, that any logic that enters their distortion field of faith will get sucked into a black hole of ignorance and self righteousness. These people see reason as the enemy, trying to make them doubt their faith.
Now we have another clerk named Davis entering the circus show, promising that he’s willing to be put to death in order to support his “sister” Kim Davis. His name is Casey Davis, no relation to Kim Davis. Casey is another clerk for the county vowing to fight gay marriage. Of course he’s being dramatic, since there are no reports of anyone trying to kill him for his beliefs. This is a prime example of the evangelical “American Martyr” fetish; a masochistic delusion which seeks out persecution from anywhere they can find it.
If you listen to what Casey said you may notice a disturbing pattern,
“Our law says ‘one man and one woman’ and that is what I held my hand up and took an oath to and that is what I expected. If it takes it, I will go to jail over — if it takes my life, I will die for because I believe I owe that to the people that fought so I can have the freedom that I have, I owe that to them today, and you do, we all do. They fought and died so we could have this freedom and I’m going to fight and die for my kids and your kids can keep it.”
As Casey continues, he insists that the Supreme Court had no authority on this matter.
“There is a travesty taking place with that Supreme Court ruling was completely unconstitutional, completely unconstitutional. They have no right to tell us, the state of Kentucky, that our law that was voted with what was 70 percent of the people that it was wrong, they had no right.”
When you listen to people like Casey Davis, you realize that these people are not just willing to go to jail or die for their beliefs. These people are eager to do so. They are as giddy with excitement at the prospect of being a martyr as an ISIS soldier with his 72 virgins already picked out.
Rob Watson, a writer and proud gay father, addresses the followers of this insane evangelical “American Martyr” fetish. Here’s this gay dad’s scathing open letter.
“Dear American Christian Nation,
Before I start, let me clarify. I am not addressing all Americans. Many are either Christian, or your kind of Christian. I am not addressing the vast majority of Christians who happen to be American. I am addressing those of you for which there is no separation of Church and State in your mind. I am addressing those of you who cannot see us as a nation, only a Christian one, and one that ostracizes all who do not fit into that structured well cast core.
You. “The chosen”.
We have an election going on, and it is time to severely scrutinize the candidates. They are all failing and principle-less and their missions are eroding any semblance to a noble legacy that you once possessed.
I am not talking about the candidates for President and politics (though, if you want to go there….), I am talking about the invisible yet contentious race to be seen as the biggest “Christian” martyr ready to ruin one’s life for God.
Only common requirement: Be extremely homophobic and seek the expulsion of LGBT people from anything that resembles a decent, responsible life.
First we had the baker, the florist and the pizza maker. The pizza maker’s martyrdom did not last long. The primary challenge for them was there was no real situation. They had insulted invisible people for a non-existent event. Then they became almost instant millionaires.
Becoming an almost instant millionaire is pretty much a disqualification for being a martyr.
The baker fell into a similar conundrum. They thought they had martyr’s pain over a $135,000 judgment against them, but then they got four times that amount in fund raising. As riches filled their homophobic coffers, they raised up their hands, and in their best Marie Antoinette cried “let them eat cake,” and sent out confections to all the people whose weddings for which they would have refused to bake. But then they sent them cake… for free.
If you can’t figure out when to bake or when not to bake, and you earned a big payoff — you’re not a martyr.
The florist’s quest for martyrdom just wilted for lack of damage. She claimed loss of avocation, home and all that she held dear. The truth was a $2000 fine and a finger wagging.
Those who don’t get punished really at all aren’t martyrs. They are drama queens.
There was also the Idaho wedding chapel guy who was went around telling everyone how he was going to prison. He barely makes it on this list since he had nobody who wanted to patronize him, no authorities questioning his action, no ordinances violated, and no issues raised on how he was doing business.
Those who have to beg to be harassed, and then still aren’t, are not martyrs.
So now we come to the non-related clerking Davis “Bobsey Twins” of Kentucky. Casey Davis has taken to his bike to fight the evil LGBT windmills like a crazed Christian Don Quixote. Kim Davis has taken the role of a modern day George Wallace blocking the door to keep a young African American woman from attempting to be the first to register at the University of Alabama. He stood defiant, blocking the door on June 11, 1963 as Vivian Malone sought to enter.
American Christian Nation, it is time to take a hard look at your players. They are not serving you well. No one is being inspired to Christ due to their actions. No one is relating to some grand principle when all they see is gestures of cruelty being offered to innocent people who want nothing more to love who they love, and to be able to start their families with dignity.
Your martyrs are becoming more and more objects of financial opportunism of a giant Hate Industry more than they are the faithful willing to die for honor, glory and a righteous way of life. This is not about following God, it is about following the money. Right now that money is being spent yearly in the billions to attack other families so that you can feel self-righteous— or so you are being told.
Has your righteous feeling enveloped your life yet? How’s that working out for you?
Here is the really sad part. The millions being squandered on this vitriol? That is not the money of America’s progressive people. It is your money. It is coming from your need to “get at” people you don’t know and don’t understand. You are bankrolling this campaign of oppression that your grandchildren will come to mock and deride and wonder how anyone could be so stupid as to buy into.
The waste is yours. It is mind boggling to think what could be done if your collective mindset was re-directed to things that Christ actually did and does care about. Things like helping the sick, the unfortunate, the homeless and hurt. What healing could your outpouring to these self afflicting “martyrs” do if sent in another, positive and affirming direction.
It would change this from the age of the Wanna-be Martyr, to the age of Christian Miracles. While the results could be Heavenly, the choice in making it all happen is quite Earthly. It would not be up to God to alter the current trajectory, for Him, it is a spectator sport.
It is, instead, all up to you.”
