Kim Davis, a newly registered member of the Republican party and lazy clerk, was given the Family Research Council’s Cost of Discipleship Award on Friday evening. I drank four wines and then I went to watch it happen.
For someone who is supposedly the savior of American Christianity, she doesn’t seem to have much of a fanbase among the Values Voter attendees. The crowd for Davis’ award ceremony was fairly paltry compared to the crowd that had gathered for the morning and afternoon plenaries.
The press section alone was mostly empty, compared with this morning when I had to sit on a RH Reality Check reporter’s lap. Just kidding I sat on a chair but it was hard to find.
Anyway, I drank a bunch of wines and then I got there kind of early while Lt. Col Ollie North was speaking, so I left and drank another in the hotel bar. I ordered a white wine (because that’s what I like) and the bartender asked if I wanted a small or large — I have never heard of this before. I asked for a small and he filled up a wine glass all the way to the top. Crazy! While I drank it (not all of it but some of it) all I could think was “I’m in House of Cards, I’m in House of Cards, I’m in House of Cards.” Nobody talked to me and I am still alive, but it still felt very dangerous.
Then I returned to the main Regency Ballroom, the site of all my pains and pleasures of the day, where I caught the tail end of Rep. Louie Gohmert’s sad speech.
Last year, the first-ever award was given to Mariam Ibraheem, a Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death and spent months in a prison cell with her toddler son and infant daughter. And this year, the FRC chose to give the organization’s highest honor to Kim Davis. If I was Ibraheem I would be p.i.s.s.e.d. So pissed. Like, wow. Way harsh, Tai/FRC.
The excitement is building so let’s transition into the present tense:
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