In a country with an incarceration problem, we don’t often here about people wanting to go to jail unless they are homeless people looking for health care. However, this county clerk opted to put herself in jail rather than issue gay marriage licences.
“While Kim Davis, the now-famous county clerk in Kentucky who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, sat in jail, her deputies issued licenses to same-sex couples for the first time.
The earth and skies, it must be noted, did not open up with fire, bats, lizards, brimstone or burning sulphur.”