Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis and
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are among those
included in Mad magazine's list of “20 Dumbest People,
Events and Things.”
MAD editors skewer Davis for
defying the Supreme Court's June finding that gay and lesbian couples
have a constitutional right to marry. Davis fought to keep her
office from issuing such licenses, claiming that it would violate her
conscience.
Under the heading What in God's Name
is She Doing? editors
wrote about Davis: “When Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis
refused, 'under God's authority,' to issue marriage licenses to gay
couples, it made a lot of no-sense. That's because Kim is the kind
of Christian who cares more about what Mike Huckabee said about gay
marriage – 'It's like asking someone who's Jewish to start serving
bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli' – than what Jesus said, which
was nothing. Still, by putting her homophobic theology above the law
of the land that she swore to God to uphold, Kim became a heroine –
you might even say doll – of intolerant ideologues
everywhere.”
The Kim “all-American girl” doll
includes court orders, “a darling miniature Bible, severely
abridged to only contain those verses which Kim finds convenient to
obey” and a series of “fun, easy-to-read chapter books,”
including Kim Cherry-Picks Passages from the Bible, Kim and
her New Gay Friends and Kim and the Presidential Candidate who
Never Was. That last title's cover includes an image of Davis
with Mike Huckabee.
Trump
covers this year's edition of the MAD
20, which goes on sale December 15.