"It worked, by God, it worked!"

I have a new theory about Kim Davis. I am beginning to think that she's not all that religious. I suspect she saw marriage licenses for gays as an opportunity to catapult herself in the national spotlight, which she has done. True she is making $80,000 a year, a generous sum for such an ordinary person in an ordinary job. But like many ciphers, she wanted to be famous. And completely lacking in beauty and intelligence (but not guile) she hit on this scam. In short, she's a grifter. If she denied issuing licenses by pretending it was to honor God, and she didn't get the publicity she hoped for, she could always relent and go back to her overpaid job. But her scam worked and she was suddenly in the national news. Going to jail could only provide her with more publicity and a kind of martyrdom. Now she was on television and being interviewed and even the gullible Mike Huckabee fell for her scam and became her champion. This was going better than she hoped. It was easy enough to keep pushing the religion malarkey since she was an Apostolic Christian until she hit on this far more soul-satisfying ruse. She was elated. She could see the book deal coming her way, maybe a movie. Of course she had to explain why Biblical law didn't prevent her four marriages, three divorces, serial adultery and the early arrival of bastard twins. Easy. She said God cleansed her of those sins. Then why not issue the licenses and get cleansed again? Because it wasn't part of the plan. Recently her gay friends say they don't recognize her as the person they knew. Of course not. They're not in on the scam. All right, it's only a theory. But it would explain a lot more about this harridan Kim Davis than a supposed act of conscience from someone who so obviously has never operated out of conscience.