You Have Got To See What Happens When A Fox Guest Compares Kim Davis To Martin Luther King, Jr.

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There has been no shortage of hyperbolic language exhanged during the debate over Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, but it may have well reached its apogee earlier today on Fox News.

Two guests were involved in the dustup: Catholic League founder Bill Donohue and defense attorney Eric Guster. The host of the segment, Martha MacCallum, asked Guster if Kim Davis should be given special “accommodations” for her religious beliefs, which she insists prohibit her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Guster replied:

“We’re getting so far away from what we should do as a society. Follow the law and stop blaming religious freedom on every single thing that they can. She needs to follow the law and she was wrong. If you are the circuit clerk of a county, if you are the clerk and it is your job to issue marriage licenses even if you don’t agree with it then simply don’t do it. You have to simply quit that job or move along… She was trying to be this martyr for religious conscience [and] she simply is not. She’s simply a bigot.”

Brother Donohue did not care for Guster’s comments, and shot back with:

“You know what I find amazing. I’m sure that Eric regards Martin Luther King as a hero. I certainly do. When he was sitting in the jail, he wrote the ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ invoking St. Augustine, that you’re obligated not to follow an unjust law. Civil disobedience is based on moral persuasion. She’s trying to morally persuade the country by protesting a law, which by the way, the Supreme Court made this up out of whole cloth. Nowhere is it found in the Constitution that two men can get married.”

Wait a minute! Did he just compare Kim Davis to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? You may now facepalm and shake your head in disgust.

Guster was not the least bit pleased with Donohue’s statement, which MacCallum referred to as a “comparison,” and he let her know it:

“This is not a comparison. Martin Luther King would want everyone to have the same equal rights as everyone else. That is the Martin Luther King comparison. He wouldn’t want to associate with someone who was a bigot, who was against people for what they believed in and who they are, and that is exactly what Kim Davis does.”

Donohue, not content to rest on the already shaky foundation he had tried to build, added this nonsense:

“So if I believe that a man and a woman should get married and not two men, I’m a bigot, right?This is the new idea. You know what, that doesn’t work, fella.”

But Guster was more than ready for a barbed reply:

“This is the same the same example such as interracial marriage! I’m from Birmingham. So, I know civil rights. When you have a situation when two people want to get married and it’s the law of the land, allow them to get married. That is her job. So I know about civil rights, young man You should know that.”

Kim Davis compared to Dr. King. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it all now. When will they be awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Ms. Davis?

Try never, or at least not until hell freezes over.

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