Kentucky clerk Kim Davis — the woman who was briefly jailed for refusing to grant gay marriage licenses last year — hopes to send President Barack Obama a powerful message when she attends his State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
Davis, the clerk of Rowan County, and her attorney, Mat Staver, founder of the Liberty Counsel, hope that their presence will offer up a very public defense of “religious liberty,” according to a statement released by the legal firm. “We will be there to stand for religious freedom and to represent Judeo/Christian values,” Staver said in a statement. “For seven years, people of faith have been in the cross-hairs of the Obama administration.”
The press release also proclaims that Davis and Staver hope that their presence will be an “encouragement for people of faith to stand” in the midst of the Obama administration’s purported attacks on the faithful.
“The Obama Administration has trampled religious liberty over and over, including denying applications for tax-free status to conservative organizations, requiring Christian-owned businesses and nonprofits to pay for abortion-inducing drugs, opposing the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have protected the religious rights of our military, and supporting same-sex marriage, just to name a few,” the statement reads.