Müs wrote:
No no no. What she did before she was "saved" doesn't matter. Its all about how good she is now after accepting Jesus as her Lord and personal Savior.
This is true - but it only applies to what happens after you die. It doesn't mean you get a free pass here on earth.
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That woman reminds me of several members of my extended family. Especially the "I've made mistakes in the past, but I've been forgiven" line.
(Referring to an abortion clinic) "Bunch of damned child murderers, they should be put to death."
"Uhm, you HAD an abortion. I remember that happening."
"God understands why I did what I had to do and has forgiven me."
"How do you know God hasn't forgiven them, either?"
"They're not Catholic, they're damned eternally."
Your extended family does not seem to have read the Rman Catholic teaching on that issue very carefully.
In any case, there's several problems here. One is quite simple, and that's the simple fact that an elected (or appointed, for that matter) official cannot refuse to do their job for religious reasons. Period. They also can't defy court orders. The proper thing for her to do is resign, but she probably has no idea what do with herself after that, either for income or otherwise, and she was elected to her mother's position. I doubt she's ever been seriously contested in an election (because no one is going to run agains her since A) she's the democrat in coal mining union country and B) that just wouldn't be nice. You know Miss Davis's mama had the job before her!) and has only ever seen it as a formality. The idea that she might ever find herself out of office has never occurred to her.
This is exacerbated by the combination of the recency of her discovery of faith - she probably hasn't learned much - and the nature of the church she most likely goes to. I don't know for sure obviously, but if experience is any guide there is probably a lot of emphaisis on "gittin' folks SAVED!" and not a whole lot after that. Most likely, she has not really learned much of anything after that, which might have taught her a little bit about judging other people, rendering unto Caseser that which is Caser's and the authorities appointed over you (such as those mean ol' courts). Fundamentally, this goes to a combination of evangelical churches run by poorly educated fat guys sweating through their button-down shirt armpits and the underlying weakness of evangelical theology that teaches "Faith alone" salvation, but then tries to turn it into works-based legalism. When you mix that with a combination of "poorly-educated, rural, and largely **** on by everyone"
one of which is that this lady is in this job because Mama had that job, and "you just don't run against Miss Davis, y'here?" It's a crushingly poor part of the country that has all the problems of the inner city, but gets none of the attention.
Because these people are, generally, crushingly poor and the only jobs that pay decently ususally involve coal, or joining the military, they tend to be registered Democrat becuase they still think that's the party of unions and workers. The Democrats though, don't give a flying ****, which turns them into blue-og democrats who vote Republican because all they hear from Democrats is how they're racist and mine that filthy coal.
These people represent an incredible resource for Democrats. They're whites that vote democrat locally and add to total union numbers, but because they're rural and don't really matter in swing states the Democrats and liberals that ostensibly care about the poor can write them off as "racist rednecks" or whatever. In this particular case, it allows them to associate "white" with "homophobic" to divert attention away from just how many Democractic minority liberal voters there are that are just as homophobic.
In that respect, this lady is a bonanza for the Democrats. She's everything they could hope for. She creates a shitstorm that allows them to finger-point at rural whites and dismiss them as homophobes and bigots to their base that already thought that anyhow, while conveniently ignoring that they represent exactly the kind of poor people with little opportunity and no education that Democrats and liberals ostensibly claim to care about. The fact that she's an elected Democrat is being carefully avoided already, unlike when an elected Republican does something idiotic.
I'm pretty sure that she's far from the only Evangelical county clerk out there, but the only one so amazingly stupid as to think she can get away with this. The others have all done what they were supposed to do. That won't stop those for whom its convenient from making stupid generalizations on this basis nor will it result in the left confronting the fact that this woman is not some amalgamation of everything on the right - she's fundamentally a liberal/moderate that happens to be a social conservative on this one particular issue. Instead they're jumping up and down with glee that they get to rant about "homophobia" some more among people they have no intention of trying to make any less homophobic.
Because telling people they're terrible homophobe stupid racists isn't the mark of someone that wants to change minds; it's the mark of someone that wants
jews homophobe stupid racists to blame things on. There is plenty of hypocrisy to go around here. Thankfully her deputy clerks seem to know what side their bread is buttered on so the nice lesbian couple on TV can at least stop being the ping-pong ball for this shitshow.
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