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OP-ED PROPOSES BURNING KIM DAVIS AT THESTAKE

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THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.10 Sep 2015

In an essay appearing Tuesday in

The Week

, Michael Dougherty suggested that the only appropriate punishment for Kim Davisgiven her contumacy before the law is to “actually martyr her” by burning her alive.

“Any normal punishment rewards her with the comfort of solidarity from right-wingChristians or her own sense of moral self-approval,” Dougherty notes. “Therefore the only way to avoid granting her such ‘martyrdom’ is to actually martyr her.”Comparing the current stand-off between religious liberty and state authority to theProtestant Reformation, Dougherty said that Christians who make a spectacle like this are“perverse” and declared that the “only way the state can really punish them is to informthem that their suffering is meaningless and proving that God doesn’t exist by sendingthem to the darkness of oblivion in torment.”Let Kentucky officials in defiance of the Supreme Court ruling “be put on a pyre,”Dougherty wrote. “When the smoke settles there will be no GoFundMe campaign, saveperhaps for a small carbon offset.”

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GIven everyone's premises, there is only one proper way to punish Kim Davis: Burn her to death. theweek.com/articles/57524…

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The ominous piece follows on threats from gay activists who told Davis’ husband they would rape her in front of him, burn their house down, and murder them.“They told my husband they were going to burn us down while we slept in our home,”Davis told Fox News’ Todd Starnes. “He’s been told that he would be beaten up and tied upand made to watch them rape me. I have been told that gays should kill me.”Burning seems to be the punishment

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to exact on people who oppose gay marriage. William Smith, Jr., and James Yates, a gay couple who were denied a marriage license inRowan County, said of Kim Davis that they would “rather burn the earth and not letstraight people in Rowan country get married either.”Such punishments are not unheard of, though we tend to associate them with countriessupposedly less civilized than our own. Last November, for instance, a Christian marriedcouple was burned alive by a Muslim mob in the south of Lahore (Punjab province), after being accused of committing blasphemy for allegedly burning pages of the Qur’an.Some have assumed that Dougherty’s essay is meant tongue-in-cheek, calling it a “Swiftianproposal,” after Jonathan Swift’s famous essay suggesting that the children of poor peoplein Ireland could be flayed and their soft skin used to make gloves and their flesh consumedto help defray expenses.Be that as it may, the rhetoric of burning alive those who oppose same-sex marriage because they deem it an aberration that offends both human dignity and the laws of Godseems only to stoke the flames of anti-religious sentiment that already threaten toundermine the foundations upon which America was built.Justice Anthony Kennedy and the other four justices who sided in favor of imposing same-sex marriage on the country could not have failed to foresee the effects of their decision onreligious freedom.It remains to be seen whether a country founded on religious liberty will be able to withstand the waves of the new orthodoxy that crash daily upon its shores.

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