http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/01/1426599/-Why-I-m-Not-Upset-with-the-Pope
There's a big buzz about Pope Francis meeting with Kim Davis. There shouldn't be. If we really believe in the separation of church and state, then we have to be consistent. The Pope undoubtedly knows nothing about U.S. clerks and their legal role.
The objection to Davis's actions has always been that she's entitled to her religious views but not to breaking the law in an alleged exercise of them. (If all marriages in the U.S. were religious, a denomination could deny marriage to anyone it wanted, whatever the rest of us thought -- actually they do, even here.)
All we on the "left" want is for her to quit her job or be fired from it. Did the Pope demand that she keep her job? He didn't even let the word out that he was meeting with her while he was here, so he wouldn't be pulled into an American controversy. He simply, we believe and Davis says, told a Christian that he supports people who stand up for their faith.
I wouldn't expect anything else of any religious leader. As one writer on the Pope suggested, it's the man, not the micro-message. So stop reading the tea leaves and savor the Papal tea.
sorry i still think he needs to clarify his action directed at if he approves of how and what she is doing by forcing others to comply with her beliefs of her religion on top of breaking the law. it also seems they both are ignoring or forgetting scripture. i have much love for Pope Frankie but he really needs to not stay silence on such a divisive subject he seems to have taken a side with.
