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Contagious America: The Anti-Equality Tour.

Kim Davis, the county clerk from Kentucky who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision, spent nine days in October on a tour of Romania to boost religious conservatives’ push for a referendum to put a ban on same-sex couples marrying into the country’s constitution. Davis traveled with Liberty Counsel Vice President Harry Mihet, who was born in Romania. Mihet discussed the trip last week with Liberty Counsel president Mat Staver on Faith and Freedom, the group’s weekly radio show.

Staver said that Mihet and Davis met with “four out of the six top archbishops of the Orthodox Church” as well as evangelical leaders and heads of “pro-family” organizations. Mihet said they spoke to “several hundred people” in six of the country’s largest cities, with “thousands” more watching online.

Staver said that Davis made the trip to tell her story as a warning about “the implications” of a country going “the wrong way on marriage.” Mihet said Davis gave a “powerful” message about the need to define marriage in the constitution to prevent the kind of “devastating” impact on people of faith experienced in the United States because of “judicial activism and judicial overreach.”

The monstrous contagion that is America. People everywhere, don’t let your countries grow up to be Amerikka. Please. Be better than us, it’s not like it’s a high bar. RWW has the full story.

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  3. johnson catman says

    . . . “devastating” impact on people of faith experienced in the United States because of “judicial activism and judicial overreach.”

    I know, right?! All of those christians have had to get gay-married or else go to jail.

  5. chigau (違う) says

    What kind of wristwatch is that priestly guy wearing?
    And whatinhell is Davis doing with her purse?

  6. whirlwitch says

    @chigau: She’s protecting her purse. She’s in a land of scary foreigners, after all, however much she likes their homophobia.

  7. blf says

    What kind of wristwatch is that priestly guy wearing?

    Apropos of nothing much — I don’t even know if it’s the same guy or not (albeit they do look similar) — there was an amusing incident with priestly wristwatches several years ago, Russia’s Patriarch Kirill in furore over luxury watch:

    The Russian Orthodox Church has apologised for showing a photo of its leader Patriarch Kirill that was doctored to airbrush out a luxury watch he was wearing.

    The gold Breguet watch is estimated to be worth more than $30,000 (£19,000) and was spotted by Russian bloggers.

    The watch’s reflection could be seen in the 2009 photo on the church’s website.

    […]

    Despite the airbrushing the watch’s presence was given away by its reflection on a polished table top.

    […]

    Last week the Patriarch told a Russian interviewer, Vladimir Solovyov, that expensive watches were not part of his official attire. He admitted owning a Breguet watch, but said he kept it in its box.

    The doctored photo is at the link.

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