Kim Davis Mocked by ‘Marriage’ Billboard in Her Hometown

The Kentucky clerk who was jailed after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples hasn’t exactly gotten the warmest welcome in her hometown after her release.

 

A billboard defending gay marriage, towering high above a Rowan County road, is directed specifically at Kim Davis.

 

 

Planting Peace, the nonprofit humanitarian organization that paid for the billboard, said in a statement that the “intent of the billboard is to expose this narrow interpretation by Davis and others that they use to defend their discrimination against the LGBTQ community.”

 

 

“Dear Kim Davis, the fact that you can’t sell your daughter for three goats and a cow means we’ve already redefined marriage,” the billboard reads.

 

 

The message appears to refer to a Bible scripture that says women can be sold into marriage as slaves. Planting Peace said they are pointing out that “a substantial number of zealots” cite their religion as a reason for disagreeing with gay marriage while ignoring other parts of the Bible that many consider equally antiquated.

 

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