I believe a hero is someone who accepts everyone no matter what, does good even when no one is looking and is willing to broaden their views and not be self centered. Therefore, no, I do not think Kim davis is a hero because she discriminates a group of people because of her own religious views and she is a hypocrite. She says she does everything under God and the Bible but she has commited several sins herself! If Kim Davis wants to punish others because of how she interpreted the Bible, then she should punish herself first for commiting adultery and having four marriages and three divorces and more than one affair. An example would be this quote from the Bible: “...yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye. You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to take out the speck in your brother’s eye..” (Luke 6:42)
Before she denies a gay couple a marriage certificate because it apparently violates what she believes in, she should
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Yes, she has a right to voice her opinion because of the First Amendment in our Constitution, but that makes it okay for the people that oppose her views to exercise their rights too. Also, building off of that, not everyone follows the same faith and religion she does, so she cannot try force her opinions on others because of her religion. Although I admire her for standing up for what she believes in and standing her ground, I don’t agree with how she’s doing it and I don’t think she’s the right person to set a good role model and be a hero. In a way she is like Mildred from Fahrenheit 451, she is stubborn and cannot deal with new ideas like how Mildred couldn’t handle Montag reading books because she was stuck in the old way of thinking. Mildred could not accept what Montag was doing and kept thinking books were bad like how Kim Davis can not accept that gay marriage is