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LiberalElite

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Thu Oct 1, 2015, 08:34 PM Oct 2015

Time.com: The Difference Between Kim Davis and a Conscientious Objector

http://time.com/4057446/pope-francis-kim-davis-conscientious-objection/

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By Gene Robinson
Gene Robinson is the retired Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the author of God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage.


Pope Francis picked the wrong messenger for this lesson

The inmates at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility apparently were not the only law breakers Pope Francis met with during his brief visit to the U.S. The Vatican has now confirmed that the pope met privately with Kim Davis, the county clerk in Rowan County, Ky., who notoriously went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in her jurisdiction.
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