Casey County Clerk Casey Davis said
Monday that he may die fighting the Supreme Court's ruling striking
down gay marriage bans in all 50 states.
Davis is among a handful of Kentucky
clerks defying the high court's ruling handed down in June.
(Related: Appeals
court says Kentucky clerk must issue marriage licenses to gay
couples.)
During an appearance Monday on
Huntington, West Virginia's The Tom Roten Morning Show, an
emotional Davis said that his stand was worth dying for.
“Our law says ‘one man and one
woman’ and that is what I held my hand up and took an oath to and
that is what I expected,” he
said. “If it takes it, I will go to jail over – if it takes
my life, I will die for because I believe I owe that to the people
that fought so I can have the freedom that I have. I owe that to
them today, and you do, we all do. They fought and died so we could
have this freedom and I'm going to fight and die for my kids and your
kids can keep it.”
Elsewhere on the program, Davis said
that as a Christian he's obligated to tell gay men and lesbians that
they must repent and get washed in “the blood of Jesus Christ.”
“When you stand for what's right and
when you tell someone of the danger that they are in, and I think
that when a person lives a lifestyle of sin, whether it is
homosexuality or drunkenness or drug addiction or adultery or
thievery or any kind of sin that you continue in or live in, you are
endangering yourself of spending eternity in Hell,” Davis
said. “So in my view of what the Bible says, when you're truly
loving someone, you stand and you lovingly tell them, ‘This is not
the way to Heaven, this is not the way of right.'”