The National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown was among the speakers at this week’s rally in support of Kim Davis, where he likened her stand to the fight against slavery and compared her to Rosa Parks while declaring that gay marriage is “the supreme lie of the land.”

Christians have always refused to “bow down to pagan idols,” Brown declared, and Davis refused to allow her office to issue marriage licenses to gay couples because “we know in our hearts, we know in our minds, that same-sex marriage is not the supreme law of the land, it is the supreme lie of the land.”

“When one person stand up and says, ‘I will not be bullied, I will not comply,'” Brown continued, “that person is Kim Davis and I hope she is a hero and a message for all of us. Stand for truth, regardless of what happens. Do not comply with unjust authority!”