Kim Davis is out of jail, for now. The Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk is set to go back to work on Monday, under strict orders from Judge David Bunning that if she interferes with her deputies issuing marriage licenses, she will face another round of contempt charges. Her lawyers have indicated that not only does she intend to do just that, they don’t consider the licenses that have been issued without her name on them to be valid in the first place.

So barring some kind of intervention, Kim Davis is probably on her way back to jail.

Enter The Oath Keepers.

That’s right: The same armed militia that had an armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management at Cliven Bundy’s ranch, stationed armed guards outside of military recruitment centers following the Chattanooga shooting and posted up in Ferguson, Missouri carrying assault rifles during the most recent round of protests there has volunteered to serve as Kim Davis’s personal protection detail.

From Right Wing Watch:

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced yesterday that he had reached out to Davis’ lawyers at Liberty Counsel to offer the protection of his group, which he says is already forming a presence in Rowan County, Kentucky, where Davis was recently released from jail after prohibiting her office from issuing marriage licenses. Rhodes said in a statement that his position has nothing to do with gay marriage, but rather his conviction that Davis had been illegally detained by the federal judge who held her in contempt for violating multiple court orders.

Right, this has nothing to do with gay marriage. It just has everything to do with the government following normal procedures when someone is held in contempt for violating a federal court orders. They’re not bigots, they’re just willing to forcibly resist the arrest of someone going to jail for being illegally bigoted.

And don’t get them wrong, the only reason they’re providing Davis with armed protection is because local law enforcement hasn’t stepped up to the plate. If only Rowan County’s sheriff had a more appropriate understanding of his responsibilities as a public official, he’d have prevented Davis from going to jail the first time. While they’re in Kentucky, they’ll make sure he knows better for future reference:

Peyman suggested that he meet with the Rowan County sheriff to “educate him” on his responsibility to block the actions of the federal courts, but in the meantime, Rhodes said, “our guys are already there and more coming” and they are ready to “lead by example” by preventing Davis from being arrested again.

If we thought this past week or two in Rowan County was interesting, we might not have seen anything yet.