A gay couple in Rowan County, Kentucky wanted to get a marriage license only to encounter a clerk who feels it’s her right as a Christian to refuse them:

If a government official tells you not to record what’s transpiring it’s a pretty good bet it’s because they know they’re doing something they’re not supposed to be doing. If they ever tell you that you are prohibited from recording an interaction they are 100% wrong. Not only is it your right to record interactions with government officials it’s a damn good idea. In the video one of the office workers tells them to stop recording for the clerk’s protection (ignoring the protection it afford the couple seeking the fulfillment of their rights). The clerk would only need protection if she was doing something wrong.

The Rowan County clerk appears to be a woman named Kim Davis who stopped issuing marriage licenses to all citizens the day the Obergefell ruling came down:

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis shut her blinds at work Tuesday to block the view of rainbow-clad protesters outside. They carried flowers and flags and signs saying “you don’t own marriage.” They chanted “do your job.” Moments later, she told a lesbian couple who walked in asking for a license to try another county.

This is despite an order from Gov. Beshear for all clerks in the state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in accordance with the law.

And forgetting for a moment that this woman thinks she has a right as a Christian to not do her job and still get paid for it, how many people in this clip were absolute shitbags to this couple just because they’re gay? I’ll bet I can guess their religion (and I’ll bet double or nothing they consider it a loving faith that makes people kinder).

This isn’t just an indictment on Kim Davis (who I hope gets sued to pay for this couple’s honeymoon), it’s an indictment on Rowan County, Kentucky and on Christianity, for in Rowan County it appears to have the power to make people scumbags (or at least to make scumbags think god is endorsing their scumbaggery).