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Because I'm an alcoholic. I know I'm a sinner. The point is, I can know I'm a miserable sinner and in the wrong, and still know what is right. So can this lady. Just like Paul. He knew right from wrong, what was sin, yet still was the chief of sinners, doing what he hated without knowing why.
And yeah, it is miserable. Worse living with demons and differences that people will never understand.
I'm sorry you are afflicted with alcoholism.
The analogy still doesn't work. You, as someone who is intimately acquainted with the risks and misery of alcoholism have the experience to warn friends and family when you worry they are abusing alcohol. That's valid. You're also doing this not as your paid profession but out of love for the people you care about.
To make it more analogous to what Kim Davis is doing - let's pretend that you are a professional addiction counselor who has been hired by a rehab facility to work with all patients. At first you are glad to help fellow alcoholics. Then you have to start helping patients with prescription pain addiction. You find their addiction to be abhorrent. You outright refuse to work with them in any capacity, because of personal beliefs that those who abuse prescription drugs make it harder for them to be obtained by those who truly need them (this is not actually my own belief, just something I'm putting in here). When you are called out on your hypocrisy, your solution is to stop helping all patients. Yet, due to you having an employment contract, you cannot be terminated and are still paid for the job you are failing to perform. Instead of accepting any responsibility, you cite your personal beliefs and place all the blame on the patients with the prescription pain addiction.
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