The Crucifixion of Kim Davis

       I am a Christian.  I am gay. And I've got a large distaste in my mouth for those that are having a hay day bashing Kim Davis.  If you don't know the name Kim Davis, I'm sure you have heard of the  Kentucky Clerk who has refused to marry gay couples due to her Christian beliefs.  She's been stoic in her stance against gay marriage and has refused to budge so much so that she is now in jail due to her refusals.  Kim Davis has also become the classic controversial whipping post for our progressive society. AND GOD BLESS IT that we are progressive! But there is another side...
       Kim Davis is a fairly new Christian.  I don't know this woman's life nor claim to know the details of her story but I do know what's been swirling around Facebook and social media.  She is the butt of a lot of jokes.  She is our latest whipping post of bigotry - sorry Josh Duggar, you're not in first place right now.  Her 4 marriages, kids by different men, etc. etc.  exemplify only hypocrisy at its finest....or does it?
       Many Christian believers have had their moments, especially when relatively new to their faith, where they feel like they are on the mountain top.  We (and I use we because I've been there), WE can get so swooped up in what we are told is to be right in God's eyes and the passion that swirls when we learn that the Creator of the universe might ACTUALLY take some sort of interest in us. Many of us caught up in that moment with Christ desire in our infant minds to please God in the ways that we are told will.  I believe that Kim Davis is HUMAN and perhaps may suffer from some of the same delusions I did when "on fire for God"; dogma somehow trumps love, compassion, and grace.  We can tend to error on the side of Christian legalism founded in ignorance and fear. Kim Davis is a human.
     Think about how every single one of us desire our lives to amount to something. Clearly, this misguided woman is reaching for some greater purpose in her life.  Perhaps she is attempting to redeem her previous sins by being this warrior for God?  Perhaps she has felt lost for most of her life, just recently found God's love, and is seeking to please Him in whatever trash can way she was taught to?  Don't we all do that to some point? Aren't these things that we all wrestle with at some point or another?
      My point isn't to agree with Kim Davis or turn a blind eye.  My point is to quit persecuting her, having a hay day ripping this woman's life apart and blasting her faults.  Maybe she's a loony toon bitch that is hiding behind "God" or maybe she is as I painted her above.  What if it's the latter?  We can report and we can fight against what she is standing for and that is ok and just but crucifying this depraved mind is certainly not proper nor Christian.  You can never act more right and justly than when grace, compassion, and love are exercised.  I think Kim Davis deserves that.