Matt Barber appeared on Joe Miller’s radio program yesterday to discuss the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling and Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis’ refusal to allow her office to issue marriage licenses in its wake. Davis eventually wound up in jail as a result of her actions, which allowed her subordinates to issue licenses in her absence, at which point she was released on the condition that she no longer interfere with the issuing of such licenses in the future.
Davis has been back on the job for well over a month now and her office has continued to issue marriage licenses, yet somehow Barber and Miller claim that Davis emerged the victor in the showdown and forced the government to back down.
After complaining that America is now living under “homofascism,” Barber called on Christians all over the nation to rise up in civil disobedience because “a revolution is at hand, not an armed revolution necessarily, as of yet” brought on by Davis, who has demonstrated that just one woman can stand up, declare “the tyranny is over” and get the government to back down.
“The beauty if this is that when people do stand up like Kim Davis did,” Miller added, “the feds almost always back down. That’s effectively what this judge did and it kind of reminded me of what happened at the Bundy ranch in Nevada. Cliven Bundy, he decided, right or wrong, he stood up to it with a lot of other people and the feds backed down.”
Barber likewise proclaimed that Davis had forced the government to back down, claiming that Judge David Bunning “didn’t just walk back his contempt of court ruling, he ran it back.”
“He let her out of jail because of the Martin Luther King, Jr. comparison,” Barber claimed, “because of the Rosa Parks comparison … As with Rosa Parks, she shook a nation; Kim Davis has shaken a nation and it’s amazing what one person again, who will stand firm on their principle and refuse to violate their conscience, what they can accomplish.”
Barber may not want to look at the polls on the Davis matter, as they consistently found that a majority of Americans (and Kentuckians) opposed Davis’ stance and supported her jailing.
