How Kim Davis is just like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King

Kim Davis now languishes in jail, but her defense team presses forward to obtain justice! Their latest salvo includes a heart-wrenching portrayal of Ms Davis as today's successor to the legacy of Rosa Parks and MLK

Liberty University, of course, was founded by the late Jerry Falwell, who began his career as a great Christian by reminding America that the true Negro does not want integration and warning everyone about signs of the horrors to come: a pastor friend of mine tells me that a couple of opposite race live next door to his church as man and wife

Just as questions about the future of slavery had earlier excited the attention of both southern antebellum plantation owners and their chattel, Rev Falwell and Dr King shared a keen interest in the issue of integration. And just as the Supreme Court decision -- Brown v Topeka, which overturned school segregation in 1954 -- had electrified a generation of civil rights activists, another Supreme Court decision -- Green v. Connally, which revoked tax-exemptions for discriminatory schools in 1971 -- had electrified Falwell

This history uniquely positions Mat Staver, former dean of Liberty University School of Law and current counsel for Kim Davis, to explain the legacy of civil rights heroes and what they must mean to us today

Comparing Kim Davis to Rosa Parks reminds us how Ms Parks courageously faced arrest to force whites to sit reluctantly in the fronts of buses, no matter what the Supreme Court might say

Dr King once famously said, I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal". But if we allow two people to decide they will marry each other, surely we must also allow Ms Davis to decide that they certainly will not marry each other -- for otherwise, we are really taking the view that Ms Davis is somehow not the equal of the happy couple, even though she was elected Rowan county clerk! And logic likewise dictates that if we allow two people to decide they will not marry each other, we must also allow Ms Davis to decide, to the contrary, that they must marry each other, because she is still the county clerk

As we struggle through the confusions of modern life, shouldn't we gratefully acknowledge the continuing guidance of Rev Falwell?