Pros And Cons Of Kim Davis

In the United States of America, our people have come a long way since our nation’s founding. Nevertheless, we have slowly but surely fought to get to where we are today. After years of civil rights’ movements and desegregation laws, our government has now legalized same-sex marriage. While a majority of the nation rejoices that all people can now have equal rights when it comes to this life decision, many are opposed to the new legislation. One citizen who has refused to acknowledge this change in law is Kim Davis, a Kentucky clerk who has refused to issue marriage licenses to any same-sex couples. While Kim Davis feels she is acting under God's authority, she cannot seize the rights of others based on her personal beliefs in view of the fact that it is against the law of the land, signing off on these licenses would not violate her private, personal beliefs, and it is not up to her to decide what rights others should or should not be entitled to. Whether Kim Davis intended to or not, she placed herself above the law. On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court “ruled in favor of the freedom to marry.” (Hiott-Millis, 2015, …show more content…
According to Harry Bruinius, the USA Today network reported that “marriage forms do not constitute endorsement: instead a clerk simply certifies that information is accurate and that couples are qualified to marry under state law.” (2015, p.1) Though Ms. Davis claims that signing her name to these documents would violate her conscience, all the state is asking of her is to fulfill her duty to the public by certifying that the information on the licenses are valid. This is, therefore, clearly not the beginning of, as Mike Huckabee has stated, “the criminalization of Christianity” in the U.S. (Drehle, 2015, p.28) Drehle, from Time magazine, puts it like