‘Kim Davis for Rosa Parks Award': Iowa Republican ups the ante linking anti-gay clerk to civil right

[DonViejo]

‘Kim Davis for Rosa Parks Award': Iowa Republican ups the ante linking anti-gay clerk to civil rights hero

Conservatives have been on a campaign to draw a brazenly flawed line between an anti-gay Kentucky county clerk and civil rights heroes like Rosa Parks. But Iowa Rep. Steve King (R) took things to the next level by suggesting Saturday that Davis should receive a “Rosa Parks Award.”

Steve King ✔
@SteveKingIA

In 1963, we should not have honored SCOTUS decision to creat a wall of separation between prayer & school. Kim Davis for Rosa Parks Award.

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Davis, the elected Rowan County clerk, was sent to jail in contempt of court on Thursday after openly defying multiple court orders to obey the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in all U.S. states. Davis has maintained doing so is against her Christian beliefs.

This has prompted her attorneys and supporters to come up with some wildly fanciful comparisons.

Jesse Lee Peterson
?@JLPtalk

Kentucky County Clerk @Kimdavis917 is a modern day Rosa Parks, a hero! #KimDavis
#ReligiousLiberty #KentuckyClerk

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/kim-davis-for-rosa-parks-award-iowa-republican-ups-the-ante-linking-antigay-clerk-to-civil-rights-hero/

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Frightening.

But that level of desperate ignorance generally is.

[Rex]

2. It is not a civil right to be able to force your personal view unto others, not yet at least.

This entire clusterfuck has hurt the fundies the same way Trump has hurt the GOPers. Morons abound.

[madaboutharry]

3. Steve King is insane.

he is also a vicious bigot.

[Marrah_G]

4. what the fuck???????????

[Mass]

5. She herself wrote in a letter than Rose Parks had it easy (sic)

Her depth of her delusion is difficult to understand.

[mnhtnbb]

8. Where did you find that? It isn't signed.

She definitely needs mental health evaluation, since she appears to be delusional and paranoid.
She also is just another fundy in need of a history lesson.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. Is there a link to this?

I'd like to post it on FB

[HughBeaumont]

14. Yep

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/report-kim-davis-pens-letter-from-jail-compares-herself-to-rosa-parks/

[HughBeaumont]

13. OH, yes, there's a WAR on the 2.4 BILLION strong shrinking violet known as Christianity.

Fucking morons, these people are.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Too dumb to understand the Constitution

Should disqualify anyone from being an agent of the government
and upholder of the Constitution. No Kimmy, you do not have a first
Amendment right to establish an official religious filter for the whole country.

[mnhtnbb]

7. Time for Rosa Parks' family to step forward and clear up the issue.

They could easily put a stop to it.

Kind of like the idiot right wing candidates who run around using music without
permission of the artists.

I hope the family steps up.

[struggle4progress]

9. Rosa Parks' family doesn't need to notice every lunatic that ever uses her name

[mnhtnbb]

12. It's not isolated lunatics, which is the problem. Silence implies consent.

And the elected representatives that are spouting this nonsense need
to be told to stop it.

[Oilwellian]

10. I don't recall Rosa Parks oppressing anyone

Do you?

[KingCharlemagne]

16. We shouldn't even have to explain this, but such is the poverty

of historical knowledge and the sorry state of critical thinking in large segments of the U.S. populace, that I feel compelled to:

Rosa Parks was protesting against the power of government to discriminate unjustly based on race.

Davis, by contrast, is protesting in favor of the government's right to discriminate based on sexual orientation.

The only thing the two women have in common is that each believes a law or laws is unjust. Not all iterations of civil disobedience advance the cause of Justice.

[mnhtnbb]

15. Just for fun I went to the Rosa Parks Museum

and found this statement on their website

Visitors are transported through time from to the early 1800’s to the early “Jim Crow” era where they observe scenes of segregation and social and legal challenges made by individuals like Harriet Tubman, Dred Scott and Homer Plessy. Visitors also learn about the various legal challenges that helped reshape the thinking of the 20th century that discrimination and segregation were both immoral and illegal.

http://www.troy.edu/rosaparks/museum/index.html


Someone ought to send that information to these right wing nut jobs who have it completely assbackwards when they
think Kim Davis deserves a Rosa Parks Award for wanting to enforce discrimination against a group of people.

Problem is, Kim Davis has been subjecting herself to this kind of backwards thinking at every opportunity for the last four
years when she says she's in church every time the doors are open. She's become brainwashed by hateful, misogynistic
bigots.

[SeattleVet]

17. Like Rosa Parks? Please!

I think that she's much more like the bus driver that refused to move and held up all the rest of the passengers because Rosa Parks wouldn't move to the back of the bus.

"If I have to give a license to the gays, I'm not giving a license to anyone, and neither is anyone else in my office."

[smirkymonkey]

18. What an insult to Rosa Parks!

I cannot believe the nerve of these people.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

19. Funny how conservatives like to claim the civil rights movement

When every survivor of that era - Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Rev. Lowery, John Lewis, etc - were/are strident liberals and Democrats.