The Weather Channel anchor Sam Champion
has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Kentucky country clerk
Kim Davis.
Davis is the elected clerk of Rowan
County, Kentucky who was jailed for 5 days for refusing to comply
with the Supreme Court's June ruling striking down gay marriage bans
in all 50 states. She has said that issuing marriage licenses to gay
couples would violate her conscience.
In an interview with
TheWrap.com, Champion, who married husband Rubem Robierb in 2012,
said that Davis did not have a right to impose her religious beliefs
on others.
“We came to be in this nation to get
away from having to govern ourselves based on one religion,”
Champion said.
Public servants such as Davis have a
responsibility to “help and govern and protect all of the people of
this country.”
“It's not your right in this country
to take your religious beliefs – no matter what they are or how
heartfelt they are – to impose them on other people and not carry
out the laws of this country. I feel very, very strongly about it,”
he added.