As Religious Right activists continue to compare anti-gay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to actual victims of oppression such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Dietrich Boenheffer, Jan Huss and Holocaust victims, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins decided to partake in the fun, telling “Washington Watch” listeners last week that Davis is much like Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman who was imprisoned for leaving Islam for Christianity.
“A year ago, we were working for a young, 27-year-old woman who was in prison in a Third World country because of her faith, Meriam Ibraham,” Perkins said. “I never thought, less than a year later, that I would be working on behalf of a woman in the United States of America imprisoned by her government because of her faith in Christ. That’s where we’ve come.”
Perkins also claimed that the U.S. Marshals and county prison officials “should have refused” to follow a federal judge’s finding that Davis was in contempt of court for refusing to obey court orders that her office issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
He said that Davis and others have no obligation to follow “laws that have no moral foundation that are actually in contradiction to moral law and truth.”
