3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Dismiss Kim Davis as a “Hypocrite”

3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Dismiss Kim Davis as a “Hypocrite” September 4, 2015

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EVERYONE should be allowed freedom of religion. If a gay baker doesn’t want to serve straight people, more power to him (It certainly wouldn’t hurt my feelings!)

Kim Davis should NOT have been put in jail…  especially since the mayors of those sanctuary cities haven’t been arrested, and their actions have resulted in deaths!

But there are some who say that this woman’s act of civil disobedience – her refusal to sign same sex marriage certificates which landed her in jail — is even worse because she’s a “hypocrite.”  News came out that she’d been married multiple times before her conversion to Christianity.  But before you start dismissing this woman because of her sins, read these three things about the constant allegation of hypocrisy:

1. It only applies to sex:

Imagine this scenario. A man drinks to excess every day and smokes crystal meth.  Then, he has an epiphany and changes, turning from his old life and starting anew.  Instead of drinking and smoking, he tries exercise and eating more healthfully.  In his free time, he warns others to stay away from drugs and drink.

Does the culture collectively yell “hypocrite!” No.  Most appreciate that he had the ability to turn his life around and praise him.

When the sin deals with sex, everything changes.  It doesn’t make sense.

2.  It reveals that the farce of “slut shaming.” 

We live in a culture which preaches against “slut-shaming” and says everything goes sexually.  You can be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, or even pansexual without raising an eyebrow.  If you do raise an eyebrow, you are a bigot.  But not in Kim’s case.

“Well, who is she to talk,” people say on Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media about the Kentucky clerk.  “You heard that she had affairs, didn’t you?”

Suddenly, our culture is a bunch of Puritans – aghast at the woman’s sexual standards.

3.  It buys into wrong definition of hypocrisy. It isn’t hypocritical to fail to live up to your own moral standards.  If you have ever lied in your life, don’t you still have the moral freedom and even responsibility to teach your children that lying is wrong?

The Gospel Coalition has a good definition of hypocrisy that might shed light on the subject: “The hypocrite is not the Christian who struggles against sin, fights against temptation, and keeps doing what is right even on his worst feeling days. That’s a hero. The hypocrite is the Christian who uses the veneer of public virtue to cover the rot of private vice. He’s the man living a double life, the woman fooling her friends because she has church clothes, the student who proudly answers the questions in Sunday school and just as proudly romps through immorality the rest of the week. The sin of hypocrisy is not that we are more messed up than we seem. That’s true for all of us.”

So here we are, shocked – shocked, I tell ya! – that Kim Davis hasn’t lived up to God’s standards.  Some lament, “I’d be fine if the only people who advocated for traditional marriage weren’t hypocrites.”

Well, here’s a newsflash.  There’s only been one person on this earth who lived up to the standards of holiness… and the world hated him too.

Here are two other must-read articles about Kim.

#FreeKimDavis!!

Why Didn’t She Just Comply?

No, Kim Davis Should Not Have Quit

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