Rowan County (Ky.), Clark Kim Davis was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. (Timothy D. Easley, The Associated Press)
Re: “Kim Davis and the law of the land,” Sept. 15 editorial.
The Denver Postap editorial slams Colorado Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, for speaking out on behalf of Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk whose refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has become all the rage in a world which has virtually departed from the Judeo-Christian tradition of the Founding Fathers. There is little, if any, semblance of the world today to that of our forebears’ generation. What is particularly disturbing to Lundberg, and millions of his fellow Americans, is the Supreme Courtap “incredibly bad decision” last June legalizing same-sex marriage. What would have been deemed preposterous a generation ago — the attempts on the part of secularist judges to criminalize Christianity — is becoming increasingly common under Obergefell vs. Hodges.
The case of Kim Davis has little to do with marriage and everything in the world to do with the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Brian Stuckey, Denver
Re: “Does the rule of law really trump Kim Davis’ religious freedom?,” Sept. 17 My Turn column.
Regarding Doug Barth’s column on Kim Davis’ situation, I have a different perspective. In 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education ruled that “separate but equal” schools (allowed by the 1896 Supreme Court case of Plessy vs. Ferguson) violated the 14th Amendmentap equal protection clause. The Supreme Court didn’t make any new law, it just interpreted Brown according to the Constitution. Turning to the religious argument, if a person’s religious beliefs take precedent over the law, then groups such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses can withhold blood transfusions to their children that could possibly save a life.
Robert Clarke, Highlands Ranch
This letter was published in the Sept. 18 edition.
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