CHURCH AND STATE?

Yes, Kim Davis has caused a huge “hullabaloo!”  I am fairly sure that is exactly what she wanted in the first place.  Guess what, Kim Davis, you are a government employee and you became one as soon as you were elected and sworn into office.  As an individual, her religious beliefs are her own and I would and will defend her right to have those beliefs.   As a public employee, since this country is non-sectarian and has NO state religion, personal beliefs legally can not and should not enter the work place.

Do I have other issues with Kim Davis?  Yes!  She loudly proclaims her Christian beliefs which “prevent” her from issuing a legal sectarian document, i.e. a marriage license to individuals whose legal marriage she disapproves of.  It would have been better for her to do her job and not try to hide behind her “beliefs.”  Why? 

By the essential definition……Christian means a person who believes in/accepts Jesus Christ. Using that definition…anyone who belongs to  any Protestant, Roman Catholic, or Eastern Orthodox  church is a Christian.  (Are you listening, Kim?)  The significant difference  is that each  denomination has slightly different  opinions about one’s personal conduct!   The Ten Commandments  is basically a core belief…..but….there are variances in specific application of those beliefs and some denominations are stricter than others.  (Are you listening, Kim?)

My husband’s denomination would have kicked Kim out when her children (not her then husband’s offspring) were born!  They would have taken her back after she confessed before the elders (and maybe the whole congregation).   My denomination on the other hand would have considered the children her husband’s.  After confession and penance  the church would have  not have much more to say ….except….the divorce would have caused raised eyebrows.  The second marriage would have been the final straw and she would have been excluded from Communion.  Further divorce-remarriage-divorce-remarriage would have resulted in permanent suspension of membership (adultery without repentance).  

I cannot speak with any authority about the processes and procedures of other denominations except to say that Kim Davis would have been on  very shaky grounds with her marriage/divorce  record.  Am I condemning her?  NO!  Final judgment and/or condemnation/or forgiveness is in the venue of a Higher Power which  brings me to my main point.  All of us will face GOD’s judgment at the apropos time.

There is an old saying (secular version) that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. We have NO state church and the rules of Kim Davis’s church do NOT rule any other church. My religious freedom gives me the right to associate with any church I choose and I have done so. Kim Davis has chosen her church and that is fine . However…Monday through Friday…when we are at work at our secular jobs…..at our government jobs…the LAW must be followed and other than mentioning in passing that I am a member of ???? church, I/we are not ALLOWED to be proactively churchy!