NYTimes.com:
Pope
Francis met privately in Washington last week with Kim Davis, the
county clerk in Kentucky who defied a court order to issue marriage
licenses to same-sex couples, a Vatican spokesman confirmed on
Wednesday.
Ms.
Davis, the clerk in Rowan County, has been at the center of a
nationwide controversy over whether government employees and private
businesses have a legal right to refuse to serve same-sex couples. She
spent five days in jail for disobeying a federal court order to issue
the licenses.
On
Tuesday night, her lawyer, Mathew D. Staver, said in a telephone
interview that Ms. Davis and her husband, Joe, were sneaked into the
Vatican Embassy by car on Thursday afternoon. Francis gave her rosaries
and told her to “stay strong,” the lawyer said. The couple met for about
15 minutes with the pope, who was accompanied by security guards, aides
and photographers. Mr. Staver said he expected to receive photographs
of the meeting from the Vatican soon.
On
Wednesday, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, confirmed
that the meeting took place, but he declined to elaborate. “I do not
deny that the meeting took place, but I have no other comments to add,”
he said.
Ms. Davis described the meeting in an interview on Wednesday with ABC News.
“I
put my hand out and he reached and he grabbed it, and I hugged him and
he hugged me,” Ms. Davis said. “And he said, ‘Thank you for your
courage.’ ”
“I
was crying. I had tears coming out of my eyes,” she said. “I’m just a
nobody, so it was really humbling to think he would want to meet or know
me.”
Good for Kim Davis, the Rosa Parks of our generation and too bad for Godless liberals who've tried to stamp this Pope as some sort of
'progressive theologian' who's shown a willingness to compromise the Catholic doctrine for their morally bankrupt agenda.
