Pope Not Infallible On Matters of U.S. Constitution

Even the Pope has an opinion on Kim Davis.

It is a right. And if a person does not allow others to be a conscientious objector, he denies a right.

— Pope Francis, responding to a question about Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refusing marriage licenses to gay couples. As our own Elie Mystal noted, the Pope should have answered “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s,” because his supreme apostolic authority doesn’t extend to constitutional interpretation.

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