Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel,
on Wednesday compared Kim Davis' plight to that of a Jew living in
Nazi Germany.
Davis, the elected clerk of Rowan
County, Kentucky, was jailed Thursday for refusing to comply with a
judge's ruling ordering her to issue marriage licenses to all
qualified couples.
Davis argues that issuing licenses to
gay and lesbian couples would be a violation of her religious
beliefs.
(Related: KY
clerk Kim Davis ordered jailed for refusing to issue marriage
licenses to gay couples.)
Appearing on Crosstalk, Staver
claimed that his client was simply trying to do her job as she sees
it and that the residents of Rowan County support her.
“She'd probably be able to win the
governor's seat right now rather than just he clerk of Rowan County,”
Staver
said when asked why Davis won't resign.
“Does that mean that if you're
Christian, don't apply here; if you're a Jew, you gotta get – what
happened in Nazi Germany. What happened there first, they removed
the Jews from government public employment, then they stopped
patronizing them in their private businesses, then they continued to
stigmatize them, then they were the ‘problems,’ then they killed
them,” Staver added. “The fact of the matter is, she has a right
to this employment and you don’t lose your constitutional liberties
just because you are employed by the government.”