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Vatican: Pope Francis Doesn’t ‘Support’ Kim Davis

First, the Pope kept his meeting with Kentucky clerk Kim Davis a secret. Davis, of course, refused to license same-sex marriages, stating that it conflicted with her religious viewpoint; for that refusal, she was briefly jailed for contempt of court.

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Vatican Steps Back But Still Supports Kim Davis, Very Carefully

The Pope’s spokesman is trying to put some distance between Francis and the controversy surrounding his Washington, D.C. meeting with Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis. In a statement issued in Rome, Jesuit Federico Lombardi said, “The Pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects.”

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Exclusive: Pope Francis Initiated Meeting with Kim Davis

The meeting between Pope Francis and Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis came at the invitation of a high-ranking Vatican official connected to the Secretariat of State of the Holy See acting on behalf of the Pope himself, Breitbart News has learned. According to a person involved in arranging the meeting but who requested anonymity, the Vatican official called Robert Moynihan, editor of Inside the Vatican who is well known in Rome. The official asked Moynihan if he could help arrange a meeting while the Pope was in the United States.

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Trump: ‘Certain Segment’ of Muslims Are a ‘Problem’

In an appearance on “CNN Tonight” on Wednesday, 2016 Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump once again was asked to respond to a question he received at a town hall in New Hampshire a few weeks ago from an unidentified man that referred to

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Exclusive–Huckabee on Kim Davis Meeting with Pope Francis: Pope Congratulated Davis for Stand Against ‘Judicial Tyranny’

Davis was jailed after the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was legal—something many conservatives have argued was an act of “judicial tyranny,” as Huckabee says. Huckabee and other conservatives have been fighting to ensure that people like Davis—those with religious objections to gay marriage in government and outside of government—aren’t forced to violate their religious beliefs to comply with that decision, which they view as unjust.