Controversial Westboro Baptist Church is on the prowl again, this time with sights set on Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.
“#KimDavis. ‘Christian’ ‘remarriage’ paved way 4 same-sex ‘marriage.’ If u make one sin ‘ok’, then what of the other?” the organization tweeted.
The group protested outside the Rowan Country County courthouse Monday, claiming to warn “Kim & her ilk” with signs and songs.
For the protest, Westboro altered Neil Diamond’s “Kentucky Woman” lyrics.
“Kentucky woman put sin in the spotlight/She lies about God and claims that adultery’s alright/And God hates her; she knows God hates her/Kentucky woman/She caused (expletive) marriage/Now (expletives) own her/Kentucky woman.”
Davis gained national attention earlier this year when she refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses after the Supreme Court struck down bans on gay marriage.
The Westboro Baptist Church is known for protesting everything from gay marriage to American servicemen funerals.
“God says no divorce and no remarriage, and God says no homosexuality and, therefore, no same-sex marriage,” Westboro Baptist Church’s Steve Drain tells Gawker’s J.P. Harrell. “If (Kim Davis) wants to declare the whole counsel of God and glorify His name … then great.” But, he continued, she should condemn divorces and remarriages, including her own, as strongly as she condemns marriages between same-sex couples.
“But that’s the way that lukewarm Christianity is,” Drain says. “They belly on up to the smorgasbord and say which parts (of God’s Word) they want to uphold and which parts they want to wink at.”
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