{"id":20268,"date":"2015-09-05T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T04:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20268"},"modified":"2015-09-06T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T19:29:39","slug":"kim-davis-rosa-parks-had-it-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20268","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: The Kim Davis Letter IS DEFINITELY A Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n

SamC in comments provided this link<\/a>. The Kim Davis letter, and the associated Twitter account, is definitely a fake. Apologies to everyone reading (and also to Mrs. Davis, if she ever runs across this post, which is happily unlikely) for being taken in by the fake.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think I got taken in by a fake Twitter account. I assumed it was real mainly because many obviously Christian conservative Twitter users were following, praising and retweeting it.<\/p>\n

However, Liz Lee writes:<\/p>\n

But the second passage she quotes from the Bible is incorrect. In fact, it\u2019s totally extremely BADLY incorrect. Like, it\u2019s so incorrect that I have a hard time believing this is real. She writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cI ask that you read the passage from Luke 16:18 and think of me, \u2018Consider it all joy, my bretheren when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.’\u201d<\/p>\n

However, that\u2019s not the right passage. This passage is from James 1:2. So what is Luke 16:18? Here it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.\u201d<\/p>\n

OMG? Seriously? Please let this be real. Please. It can be my birthday present and Christmas present. I\u2019m going to assume it\u2019s fake. Considering she\u2019s been married four times and conceived children by husband #3 while she was still with husband #2, this is way too good to be true. So, I\u2019m going to assume it is fake. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Original post is under the fold.<\/p>\n


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Oh, FFS.<\/p>\n

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I need to go get reconstructive surgery and have my eye sockets broken, and then reset but larger, because only then will my eye roll be big enough.<\/p>\n

You can read the full letter on Kim Davis’ Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As long as I’m posting about Kim Davis, I liked this post from The Unit of Caring<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The rationality principle that is relevant here is humility: keeping in mind that you might be wrong, or at least that the other people sincerely believe you are wrong, and trying to design principles that can be used in a society where everyone sincerely believes the other is wrong. \u201cCivil disobedience shouldn\u2019t be punished so harshly it won\u2019t be used even when needed\u201d is a good rule. \u201cAlways feel equal sympathy for people who believe themselves to be equally justified\u201d is not one such rule. <\/p>\n

And rationality likewise does not preclude settling questions. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think Kim Davis should be in jail. I think Kim Davis\u2019s happiness is better than Kim Davis\u2019s suffering, because happiness is better than suffering. If you think that\u2019s not enough – if you think I have to sympathize with her, or admit that there\u2019s something admirable about her, or return to that emotional death spiral of what-if-the-far-right-are-actually-right-and-being-gay-is-evil-and-I-should-kill-myself, then that\u2019s not about charitableness or rationality. That\u2019s about you not liking it when sometimes a charitable rational engagement with an argument finds that the argument is wrong and can henceforth be dismissed. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE 2: SamC in comments provided this link. The Kim Davis letter, and the associated Twitter account, is definitely a fake. Apologies to everyone reading (and also to Mrs. Davis, if she ever runs across this post, which is happily … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homophobic-zaninessmore-lgbtq-issues","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20277,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268\/revisions\/20277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}