Kim Davis slammed by marriage equality billboard in her own hometown
It’s Monday morning, which means that somewhere in Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis is returning to work after a court-mandated vacation (in jail). But, before she walks through those doors and gets back to business, she might drive past a billboard that has been put up to mock her position on marriage equality.
Created by Planting Peace, a nonprofit focused on a variety of issues like LGBTQ equality, the rainforests, and deworming, the billboard reads: “Dear Kim Davis, the fact that you can’t sell your daughter for three goats and a cow means we’ve already redefined marriage.”
The billboard refers to a passage in the book of Exodus where the Israelites were given the go-ahead to sell their daughters as long as certain stipulations were followed.
In a statement, Planting Peace (the group responsible for the rainbow house across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church) said the “intent of the billboard is to expose this narrow interpretation by Davis and others that they use to defend their discrimination against the LGBTQ community.” The group says they’re making a point about the number of “zealots” who use the Bible as a shield against supporting equality while ignoring other edicts the book contains.