Kentucky clerk should be commended
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Editor,
Kim Davis, the County Clerk of Rowan, Kentucky is a brave lady to defy the opinion of the Supreme Court. Choosing not to violate one’s Christian conscience should be commended, not condemned. I’m reminded of a German theologian who chose to obey his conscience and nailed his theses to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, in October 1517, which brought about his Excommunication and the Protestant Reformation. There are a lot of good people, not just Lutherans, who admire the courage and conviction of Martin Luther.
The conscience (“knowledge of one’s own acts as right or wrong,” NCD) is a God-given gift to every human. With proper Biblical instruction, the conscience will provide a compass which, if obeyed, will enable an individual to live a life pleasing to God.
Many of us can remember when we were about to tell our first lie, or we had our first thought to steal something that didn’t belong to us. Our conscience told us it was wrong. When we chose to tell the truth, or we decided not to take something that did not belong to us, our conscience was clear, we had a sense of goodness, of feeling that we made the right decision. We’ve all been there. Kim Davis decided not to violate her conscience regarding her understanding of biblical marriage.
There is a line in God’s book that we could all benefit from if we were to apply it to the way we live our lives: “Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not to do it.” James 4:17.
One more thing about Kim Davis with which I fully concur, though I may not agree with all she says or believes, she is right when she says that there is a higher law than the Constitutional laws of the United States of America, God’s laws.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
