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National and state Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs) and the U.S. Constitution conflict with each other in important aspects. This divergence arises because many citizens fail to understand, or are unwilling to admit, that the explicit words of our noble secular Constitution are silent on religious matters except by exclusion. RFRAs, however, attempt to imposeRead more

My immediately preceding post discussed Ms. Kim Davis, the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, and her supporters who have attempted to force their theological ideas onto all citizens of that county with respect to same gender marriage, which she opposes as a result of her fundamentalist distortions of Holy Scripture. I argued that Ms. DavisRead more

The much-publicized case of Ms. Kimberly Jean Bailey Davis (Ms. Kim Davis) the elected country clerk for Rowan County, KY intrigues me on several levels. Ms. Davis defied an order from Judge David L. Bunning of the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky that she issue marriage licenses to same gender couples. ThisRead more