Brian Brown, president of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM), on Thursday criticized a federal
judge's decision to jail Kim Davis for refusing to comply with his
ruling ordering her to issue marriage licenses to all qualified
couples.
Judge David Bunning jailed Davis, the
elected clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, after finding her in
contempt of court.
(Related: KY
clerk Kim Davis ordered jailed for refusing to issue marriage
licenses to gay couples.)
Brown, whose group works to undermine
marriage equality, called Bunning's decision “outrageous.”
“What this judge is saying is that
now that the Supreme Court has illegitimately redefined marriage,
every single person in government if not in the country must stand in
salute and participate in the act,” Brown said in a blog post.
“That is profoundly wrong and violates the spirit of federal law
which provides that the government must seek ways to reasonably
accommodate people's religious views in the workplace.”
“While Judge Bunning is the
instrument of the inhumane punishing of Kim Davis, the authors of it
are the five justices of the US Supreme Court who illegitimately,
without a shred of constitutional authority, redefined marriage
without any regard to the profound implications their ruling would
have on law-abiding, faithful Americans,” Brown said. “With this
ruling, the idea of religious freedom that is at the heart of our
constitution has been eliminated when it comes to exercising beliefs
about marriage. It's a profound shredding of the constitution on the
altar of gay activism.”
“We call on federal and state
officials to immediately enact laws to accommodate the beliefs of
individuals who do not wish to be a party to something they consider
to be wrong,” he added.