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WATCH: Westboro Serenades Kim Davis With ‘Kentucky Woman’

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Members of the virulently antigay church are picketing in Kentucky for a second day, targeting marriage equality opponent Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis.

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One might think her antigay stance might earn Kentucky clerk Kim Davis allies in the radical Westboro Baptist Church, but the Christian group that pickets the funerals of service members, people with AIDS, and children is not sparing Davis its ire, given her admission of past adultery and four marriages.

A handful of demonstrators turned up Monday morning at the Rowan County Courthouse and Morehouse State University, singing and holding signs denouncing gays, blaming divorce for same-sex marriage, and announcing that "America Is Doomed."

One student responded with a sign of his own:

This is the second day the anti-Davis demonstrators from Westboro have picketed in Kentucky.

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