Jeff Messer is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WPEK (880-AM, The Revolution) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog.

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The following was posted on Sept. 10:

Oh, the mightily offended, and even more mightily God-fearing saga of Kim Davis.

She grew to media fame (is there any other kind these days) by being the County Clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky who so loved the Lord and Jesus that she wept sorrowful tears over the dirty, filthy gays being allowed to consummate their love with wedding vows that were — apparently — written by God, after he finished writing the US Constitution.

Ah, right wing logic. The irony of the idiocy.

Jaded, as I am, I instantly thought that Davis was simply making a fuss in order to get famous. After all, her religious objections seemed to be less than fully thought out. After all, she was filled with many contradictions herself.

First, she was on marriage number four. Never mind that she found four men to marry her, and breed with her, but I would assume — she not being a Mormon — that there were three divorces in there. And we all know (or do we?) that adultery is more frowned on in the Bible than anything to do with same sex relationships (which getting vaguely twistable passing references at best, and at worst are constructs of the heavily edited and censored modern Bible, that were never actually in the texts until the late 1940s).

I’m sure Davis thought the judge would simply issue a fine against her for her failure to obey the law as an elected official. He did not. He sent her to jail, and pointed out that fining her would just lead to a wild fund raising rush from right wing supporters of her selective hate agenda. I’m sure she was shocked to be sent to the slammer.

It was said that she spent time there reading the Bible. I’m shocked. That she could read. Though the real question is about her reading comprehension skills. Clearly there’s a problem there already. Or maybe she was looking for the actual text to support her views, which must have been frustrating, since that would take a very long time.

What followed her jailing was wildly entertaining. First, there was a Twitter account that popped up, claiming to be the person in the clerk’s office who sits next to Davis.

Then there was Davis’ husband (number 4) who found himself in front of many TV cameras. In one particular interview, he spouted on, in such deep woods hick dialect, that he sounded like a foreigner. I’m shocked that they didn’t subtitle his comments, though they may not have been able to, because they couldn’t figure out what he was saying. 

I was able to glean enough to hear him complain that America was more like Russia or Iran than the good ol’ US of A. And, in the height of audacity, he declared that the governor of Kentucky should do his job and let his wife out of jail or resign. Wonder where he heard that idea?

Kim Davis has little business making judgments (lest ye be judged, Kim!) on others, having been married so many times, divorcing hubby one after getting pregnant with hubby 3’s offspring, yet getting hubby 2 to marry her, then marrying hubby 3, before moving on to number 4. Follow that? Its like a very special episode of Montel Williams.

Of course, Davis can believe what she wishes, but the real problem is with her elected position/job as a county clerk who issues marriage licenses. As such, she will have to serve many who are acting against things a devout Bible thumper (can’t call them Christians, since they spend all their time in the Old Testament). She will have to issue, and I’m sure has issued, new marriage licenses to adulterers. And she should be an expert on that topic, having done so herself. So, where’s the religious objection to that? At least we’ve heard of some attempts to not issue divorces from religious objections in some places.

While 14 Alabama counties have stopped issuing any marriage licenses after the Supreme Court ruling (though they all neighbor counties who do, which almost makes is all the more laughable.) Indeed, Kim Davis cited that within 30 miles of her office there were others that issued licenses. 

And while that’s all well and good, it doesn’t make it acceptable that she refuse to do her job, and be allowed to. 

After all, there’s an NPR radio station right here in town that airs content during the same hours I do, yet I expect I would be fired if I came to work, refused to broadcast my show because they do, and people can just listen there, and then still demand that iHeart pay me to be here.