The Absurd Reason Why Kim Davis Is Being Touted For Time's Person Of The Year

It's safe to say most people do not think Kim Davis should be Time magazine's Person of the Year, but some feel otherwise.

Though the Person of the Year is ultimately selected by the magazine's editors, Time is conducting an online poll of readers to chime in on their choice of this year's most influential person -- and the anti-gay Liberty Counsel thinks Davis is the girl.

"Who more than Kim Davis has influenced the news in the past year?" reads a message on their website asking for followers to vote. "Kim Davis inspired a nation and the world to fight for religious liberty when she chose a prison cell rather than sacrificing her conscience."

In an email to supporters, Liberty Counsel chairman Mathew Staver said people should vote for Davis because she "joins a long list of people who were imprisoned for their conscience. People who today we admire like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Jan Huss, John Bunyan, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and others like them."

(All of those people were fighting for rights, not for taking away rights, but nice try, Staver.)

"Each had their own cause, but they all shared the same resolve not to violate their consciences," he wrote in an email, per Right Wing Watch. "Kim adhered to Kentucky law while standing for her First Amendment right to religious liberty and freedom of conscience. Liberty Counsel represented Kim throughout her ordeal."

The Kentucky clerk, who was jailed after she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite federal law, currently has 0.6 percent of the vote, coming in ahead of the likes of Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush.

The winner of Time's Person of the Year reader poll will be announced Dec. 7. Time's official Person of the Year, selected by the magazine's editors, will be revealed Dec. 9.

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