Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who served jail time for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is being attacked after a billboard defending LGBT marriage was displayed along a Rowan County road after her release.
The billboard reads, “”Dear Kim Davis, the fact that you can’t sell your daughter for three goats and a cow means we’ve already redefined marriage.”
According to an article published by NBC News, the billboard was paid for by the nonprofit humanitarian organization, Planting Peace. Planting Peace, in a statement to the press, commented, “The intent of the billboard is to expose this narrow interpretation by Davis and others that they use to defend their discrimination against the LGBTQ community.”
The billboard, according to Planting Peace president Aaron Jackson, cost $500 and will stay up for a month. Jackson stated, “The anti-LGBT movement is selective in what rules to follow and how they choose to define ‘traditional’ institutions or values.”
Since her release last Tuesday, Davis has received hundreds of letters of people who agree with her decision. Planting Peace responded to Davis’s recent support, commenting, “”We have to meet hate with love, intolerance with compassion … There are LGBTQ youth across the world who are taking their lives at an alarming rate because of these messages from society that make them feel broken or less than.”
Davis has said that she will return to work Monday.