Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Workplace of Kim Davis

The small radical antigay group wants to show their distaste for the Kentucky clerk's adultery.

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Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.

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October 16 2015 10:27 AM EST

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Members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church are threatening to picket the Rowan County Courthouse, where Kim Davis works, on Monday, JoeMyGod reports.

Davis is the county clerk jailed for repeatedly refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in her small Kentucky county. While many homophobic organizations have rallied around Davis and turned her law-breaking into a cause celebre, Westboro doesn't feel so warmly toward her.

The group objects to Davis's numerous marriages and claims she's an adulterer -- calling her "a fake Christian" in a tweet -- which may be worse in their eyes than homosexuality.

Westboro said the following through a press release:

"Kim claims that she has lived in proud sin for many years, divorcing and remarrying, not one time or two times, in fact you need a score card to keep track. Her lawyers, being smooth talking fellows say that all that was before her call to salvation two years ago when her current mother-in-law died. Nice, tidy, cleaver (sic), but no cigar! These matters are not hard and unclear. That man that Kim Davis is living with and calling her husband, IS NOT! Her husband is Dwain Wallace, who she married when she was 18-years-old. It does not matter how many years you pile on, it was adultery at the beginning and it was adultery in the middle and it is indeed adultery today!
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If Kim Davis received mercy from God and grace, as she claims, she would, with all due haste put her sin away. She would mourn for her sins, and in a show of great mercy, she would be busy apologizing to the fags for enabling them, and she would, with all diligence, give those perverts a marriage license. See these words of Bible doctrine and be instructed and obey! These words would bind the heart of a servant of God and only good works would follow! Kim Davis hates these words and has decided that her adultery is less sin, than the sin of the sodomites."