Kim Davis costs Kentucky taxpayers over $220,000 in legal fees

Kim Davis

Once again, the actions of a brave Christian warrior, lionized by the religious-Right for taking a stand against the Gay Agenda (and, incidentally, the US Government), have led to a highly predictable defeat. And as usual, it’s the taxpaying citizens who are footing the bill:

A federal judge has ordered Kentucky taxpayers to pay more than $220,000 in legal fees because a county clerk refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015.

U.S. District Judge David Bunning on Friday ordered the state to pay $222,695 in fees to the attorneys of two same-sex couples and others who sued Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis for refusing to give them marriage licenses. He also awarded $2,008.08 in other costs. Bunning said the county and Davis herself did not have to pay.

“Davis represented the Commonwealth of Kentucky when she refused to issue marriage licenses to legally eligible couples. The buck stops there,” Bunning wrote.

Not content with merely screwing the state out of nearly a quarter-million dollars, Davis and Liberty Council’s Mat Staver, possibly the least competent attorney in the country (aside Larry Klayman and Orly Taitz, anyway), plan to keep pushing their hopeless case onward:

But Davis’ attorney said she will appeal the ruling anyway. The judge ruled Davis lost the case. Attorney Mat Staver said they did not lose. He said the case was dismissed as moot after the state legislature changed the law in 2016 to remove the names of county clerks from marriage licenses.

I have a pro tip for you, Mr. Attorney Man: If a federal judge says you lost the case and orders you to pay up almost $225 grand in legal fees to the other side, you lost the case. The details of how you lost don’t much matter, nor do they change the fact that you lost. But then, we really shouldn’t expect something so complicated as “did he win or lose” to be understood by a man whom even Fox News thinks is “ridiculously stupid”.

I really don’t understand why some religious-conservatives think they can just refuse to obey the law whenever it goes against their beliefs. It never ends well for them. If they really had God on their side, you’d think they would win once in a while, rather than pose a constant and costly embarrassment to their supporters and countryfolk.

The rest of us don’t have the luxury of ignoring laws that inconvenience us, and neither do anti-gay Christians. It’s anyone’s guess how many more ruinously expensive courtroom losses it’ll take for the lesson to sink in. By the looks of the promised appeal, they clearly haven’t learned anything yet.

(via Friendly Atheist)