George Takei Slams Kim Davis: She's 'No Hero'

"Star Trek" star and LGBT activist George Takei took to his Facebook this week to slam Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Ky., clerk who has become a hero for anti-gay conserves after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, citing her religious freedom.

The outspoken actor made his comments after Davis was released from jail at a rally fronted by 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee.

"Well this is a bit of a circus. So let us be clear: This woman is no hero to be celebrated," Takei, 78, wrote on Sept. 8.

"She broke her oath to uphold the Constitution and defied a court order so she could deny government services to couples who are legally entitled to be married," he continued. "She is entitled to hold her religious beliefs, but not to impose those beliefs on others. If she had denied marriage certificates to an interracial couple, would people cheer her?

"Would presidential candidates flock to her side? In our society, we obey civil laws, not religious ones. To suggest otherwise is, simply put, entirely un-American," Takei wrote.

The post, which included a video of the rally, received more than 350,000 likes and over 900 shares. In the comments, a Facebook user told Takei to study the First Amendment. But the actor was having none of it.

"Permitting a state employee to foist her religion upon others, denying them a fundamental right as articulated by the US Supreme Court in Obergefell, would be to give government, through this agent, the power to impose religious doctrine and viewpoint. That it cannot do," he wrote in his reply.

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[H/T the Christian Science Monitor]