Pope Francis Held Secret Meeting With Kim Davis
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Pope Francis, the leader of the world’s Catholics, found time in his incredibly busy schedule during his US visit to meet Kim Davis, the Protestant county clerk from Kentucky. “I was crying. I had tears coming out of my eyes,” Kim Davis tells ABC News of her meeting with Pope Francis on Thursday in Washington. “I’m just a nobody, so it was really humbling to think he would want to meet or know me.”
Davis, who has refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, says the meeting came after she received a phone call from a church official. The pope told her to “stay strong,” and asked her to pray for him, according to a press releasefrom her attorney. Francis gave her and her husband rosaries, which Davis gave to her Catholic parents. “I put my hand out and he reached and he grabbed it, and I hugged him and he hugged me,” Davis tells ABC. “And he said, ‘thank you for your courage.'”
Davis’ lawyer tells the New York Times—which notes that Davis was in DC anyway to receive an award from the conservative Family Research Council—that the meeting lasted around 15 minutes.
He says the meeting was arranged by Vatican officials who had heard about Davis’ stand against same-sex marriage, and it was kept quiet until now because “we didn’t want the pope’s visit to be focused on Kim Davis.”
The Vatican says it will neither confirm nor deny the meeting. On his flight back to Italy on Monday, Francis was asked about the Davis case and said “conscientious objection” is a human right that should be extended to government workers. The lawyer says officials have photos and will release them soon, CBS News reports.
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Yes, conscientious objection is a full and valued right in the US, but taking and refusing to leave a job for which you are paid and which has requirements that you do not adhere to, is not a right in the US! And it’s not bad enough that she wouldn’t give marriage licenses to those whom she determined undeserving, but she wouldn’t allow others in the office to give marriage licenses to them, either! Freedom of religion does NOT equal “freedom to impose your religious ideas simply because’ you’re in charge'”. If the Pope thinks that this situation has anything to do with conscientious objection, then he clearly does not understand American politics or law!
By making it a question of her personal “courage” perhaps the Pope was trying to deflect the argument, just like the idiot Huckabee. It’s not about being a conscientious objector, it’s about refusing to do a job for which she is willing to collect a paycheck. It’s not Martyrdom, it’s theft, it’s ripping off the public. Who wouldn’t love to have a job we didn’t have to actually do? In every other case, a public employee who doesn’t show up for work but gets payed becomes a scandal.
Certainly she has a right to quit and that invalidates the argument of being forced to participate against her conscience. Now give my the tar and feathers and get this troll the hell out of town.
Indeed, when one is hired and paid to do a job, one must execute one’s duties or find work elsewhere. Not rocket science and the self-righteous right seem to believe they are above the law because they follow “god’s law”. So when does the stoning of divorcees and people who mow their lawns on Sunday begin???
In other news…today is international blasphemy day. It’s a victimless crime 🙂
Of course then there’s the Inquisition, a fun time for all. All of the good, and there is plenty, done by the Catholic Church, can’t erase its evil past.
Illustrates the sensibility of founding America as a secular nation. Believe what you will but it’s everyone’s right to not believe in fairytales.