BY TOBIAS SALINGER NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, September 7, 2015, 2:38 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/westboro-baptist-church-weighs-kim-davis-article-1.2350856The enemy of my enemy isn’t my friend, apparently.
The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church doesn’t support the jailed Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses over her religious objections to legalized gay marriage.
Westboro railed against Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ multiple marriages and apparent adultery in a series of Tweets over the weekend.
“If Kim Davis has any real fear of God she'll resign and move out of the house from the man she lives w/ in adultery!,” one Tweet said on Thursday afternoon.
The church continued ranting through Sunday night, even as Davis’ supporters appealed for her release from jail and other Twitter users found Westboro’s position ironic.
“Well here's cognitive dissonance at its finest — Westboro Baptist Church to Protest AGAINST Kim Davis,” talk show host Montel Williams tweeted on Saturday. “Buying a powerball ticket.”
Using the social media tag for “same-sex marriage,” Westboro later responded, “Cognitive dissonance is ‘Christians’ condemning the #SSM they caused with sanctioned adultery (divorce/remarriage).”
“Best hashtag to happen to @twitter >>#GodHatesAdultery,” another Westboro Tweet said Sunday morning. The post also shows an image with blood dripping down between the letters of a message saying, “GOD HATES ADULTERY.”
It’s not clear whether church members will show up for one of Westboro’s trademark pickets in Kentucky as gay marriage advocates and their religious conservative opponents converge on the state. Church officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for the information Sunday night.
Westboro usually goes by its infamous slogan “God hates f---,” and its protests outside military, police and other funerals help make it “arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Church members may be too busy to make it to Kentucky, though. Westboro picketed a Jay Leno event on Sunday night, and they’re planning demonstrations against country musician Dierks Bentley on Sept. 12, then Christian author and speaker Joyce Meyer on Sept. 19.
