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Rick Santorum shockingly compares Kim Davis to Columbine shooting victim
Rick Santorum cited the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in defending Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis stance against same-sex marriage in a four-candidate debate Wednesday (16 September) among low-polling Republican presidential hopefuls.
Former US Senator compared Davis to one of the 13 people killed in the Colorado mass shooting. Her name was Cassie Bernall and she was widely reported to have refused to deny God in the moments before she was shot.
‘Sixteen years ago this country was tremendously inspired by a young woman who faced a gunman in Columbine, and she refused to deny God,’ Santorum said. ‘We saw her as a hero. Today, someone who refuses to defy a judge’s unconstitutional verdict is ridiculed and criticized, chastised because she is standing up and not denying her God and her faith. That is a huge difference in 16 years.’
Davis has cited religious beliefs in her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was locked up in a Kentucky jail for five days earlier this month for defying a federal court’s order that she allow the licenses to be issued by her deputies.
‘When we say in America that we have no room, how many bakers, how many florists, pastors, how many clerks are we going to throw in jail because they stand up and say, “I cannot violate what my faith says is against its teachings”?,’ Santorum wondered. ‘Is there not room in America?’
At the second debate among the top 11 polling Republican candidates, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was asked about Davis who he organized a rally for upon her release from jail.
Huckabee believes Davis, an elected official, should be given an accommodation by the courts and not be forced to be involved in the marriage license business.
‘We made accommodations to the Fort Hood shooter, to let him grow a beard. We made accommodations to the detainees at (Guantánamo Bay detention camp),’ he said. ‘I’ve been to Gitmo and I’ve seen the accommodations that we made to the Muslim detainees who killed Americans.
‘You’re telling me that you cannot make an accommodation for an elected Democrat county clerk from Rowan County, Kentucky? What else is it other than the criminalization of her faith and the exaltation of everyone else who might be a Fort Hood shooter or a detainee at Gitmo?’
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Greg Hernandez
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