General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums‘Kim Davis for Rosa Parks Award': Iowa Republican ups the ante linking anti-gay clerk to civil right
Kim Davis for Rosa Parks Award': Iowa Republican ups the ante linking anti-gay clerk to civil rights heroConservatives have been on a campaign to draw a brazenly flawed line between an anti-gay Kentucky county clerk and civil rights heroes like Rosa Parks. But Iowa Rep. Steve King (R) took things to the next level by suggesting Saturday that Davis should receive a Rosa Parks Award.
@SteveKingIA
In 1963, we should not have honored SCOTUS decision to creat a wall of separation between prayer & school. Kim Davis for Rosa Parks Award.
4:21 PM - 5 Sep 2015
102 102 Retweets 72 72 favorites
Davis, the elected Rowan County clerk, was sent to jail in contempt of court on Thursday after openly defying multiple court orders to obey the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in all U.S. states. Davis has maintained doing so is against her Christian beliefs.
This has prompted her attorneys and supporters to come up with some wildly fanciful comparisons.
Jesse Lee Peterson
?@JLPtalk
Kentucky County Clerk @Kimdavis917 is a modern day Rosa Parks, a hero! #KimDavis
#ReligiousLiberty #KentuckyClerk
more
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/kim-davis-for-rosa-parks-award-iowa-republican-ups-the-ante-linking-antigay-clerk-to-civil-rights-hero/
madamesilverspurs
(15,805 posts)But that level of desperate ignorance generally is.
Rex
(65,616 posts)This entire clusterfuck has hurt the fundies the same way Trump has hurt the GOPers. Morons abound.
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)he is also a vicious bigot.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)Her depth of her delusion is difficult to understand.
mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)She definitely needs mental health evaluation, since she appears to be delusional and paranoid.
She also is just another fundy in need of a history lesson.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)I'd like to post it on FB
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Should disqualify anyone from being an agent of the government
and upholder of the Constitution. No Kimmy, you do not have a first
Amendment right to establish an official religious filter for the whole country.
mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)They could easily put a stop to it.
Kind of like the idiot right wing candidates who run around using music without
permission of the artists.
I hope the family steps up.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)And the elected representatives that are spouting this nonsense need
to be told to stop it.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)Do you?
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)of historical knowledge and the sorry state of critical thinking in large segments of the U.S. populace, that I feel compelled to:
Rosa Parks was protesting against the power of government to discriminate unjustly based on race.
Davis, by contrast, is protesting in favor of the government's right to discriminate based on sexual orientation.
The only thing the two women have in common is that each believes a law or laws is unjust. Not all iterations of civil disobedience advance the cause of Justice.
mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)and found this statement on their website
http://www.troy.edu/rosaparks/museum/index.html
Someone ought to send that information to these right wing nut jobs who have it completely assbackwards when they
think Kim Davis deserves a Rosa Parks Award for wanting to enforce discrimination against a group of people.
Problem is, Kim Davis has been subjecting herself to this kind of backwards thinking at every opportunity for the last four
years when she says she's in church every time the doors are open. She's become brainwashed by hateful, misogynistic
bigots.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)I think that she's much more like the bus driver that refused to move and held up all the rest of the passengers because Rosa Parks wouldn't move to the back of the bus.
"If I have to give a license to the gays, I'm not giving a license to anyone, and neither is anyone else in my office."
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I cannot believe the nerve of these people.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)When every survivor of that era - Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Rev. Lowery, John Lewis, etc - were/are strident liberals and Democrats.