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Move over Kim Davis, Gilmer County Deputy Clerk Debbie Allen is trying to steal your thunder. The Charleston Gazette reported today that when Samantha Brookover and Amanda Abramovich requested a marriage license at their county courthouse, they were met with a fire and brimstone lecture from Allen who railed at them about how pissed they were making God, calling them an abomination.
Samantha Brookover stood crying in the Gilmer County courthouse last week, humiliated on what was meant to be a celebratory occasion. Brookover and her partner, Amanda Abramovich, wanted a marriage license. They got one — along with an earful from a deputy clerk in the office, who told them that their relationship was wrong and that God would judge them.
Brookover and Abramovich had expected maybe an eye roll, or some sign of disgust. They said they weren’t anticipating they would be told they were “an abomination.” “It just takes one person to remind you how closed-minded our world is,” Brookover said. Debbie Allen, the deputy clerk who processed their marriage license, and another deputy clerk who was there, Angela Moore, disputed some of the allegations from the couple and Brookover’s mother, Jill Goff, who was also there. They disagree on how loud Allen was, and whether the word “abomination” was used, although Moore said she couldn’t hear everything.
The clerks don’t dispute that Allen told the couple was they were doing was wrong, and that they would be judged. But they also stressed that they did not view the statement as an “attack.” “We did not attack them,” Allen said. “We did not yell at them. We were not aggressive with them. I felt I talked nicely to them.” Brookover and Abramovich say that Allen huffed, took their driver’s licenses, made copies, slammed down the copies, then for two to three minutes, yelled that what they were doing was wrong, in her eyes and in God’s eyes, and that no one in Gilmer County would ever marry them.
“I felt I talked nicely to them.” Gee, I know tone of voice matters to me when some Christian lunatic is telling me that the love Brian and I share is an abomination in the eyes of God. Saying that nicely just makes all the difference. Why, it’s like being licked by a kitten.
Unlike Kim Davis, it seems that Miss Allen did not care to spend a week in the pokey despite the lucrative exposure her martyrdom would bring. As much as she showed her ass to this couple, they did get their license. We are gearing up to see much different outcomes in the near future.
At this very moment, all the usual suspect states are trying their bigoted best to pass “religious protection” laws designed to let utter assholes like Allen freely discriminate because they hate the queers. Until that happens in West Virginia (only to have it inevitably struck down by SCOTUS at great expense to taxpayers), Debbie Allen might consider quitting her offending job in public service and take up selling King James Bibles door-to-door.
UPDATE: It just occurred to me that Allen would need a peddler’s license.
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Top Comments February 10, 2016:
From gizmo59:
Sent on behalf of Timaeus comes this comment from RerumCognoscereCausas in Bob Johnson's recommended diary "Why I have Chosen Support Hose." It is a very funny story story about a wardrobe malfunction.
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From Older and Wiser Now:
In Puddytat’s diary It's YUGE! Bernie Sanders Won the Women's Vote Tonight, konving gives us this witty comment.
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From Avilyn:
In the Open Thread: New Hampshire Primary #3 by Jeff Singer, sweatyb had the perfect reaction to the news that Christie is dropping out and coming back to NJ. As a fellow NJ'er, it had me actually laughing out loud.
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From Tara the Antisocial Social Worker:
While my darling Packrat and I are out celebrating twenty years tonight, please enjoy these comments from Laura Clawson's diary "Carly Fiorina exits the Republican Primary"
Here's the hilarious post from JeffY and the topper from Mr Bubble.
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From a2nite:
In Greg Dworkin’s Abbreviated Pundit Round-up diary today, in this comment newfie reminds us that this isn’t about one team vs another.
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