What do we call it when someone is forced to provide labor against his will?

We call it slavery. And homosexual activists are determined to resurrect it in the South and everywhere else.

Case in point: Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is refusing to issue sodomy-based wedding licenses to gay couples. In so doing, she is honoring the Kentucky state constitution and her own conscience.

But a federal judge, David Bunning, is ordering her to violate her own deeply held religious principles or go to jail. Bunning wrote that her liberty is limited to the freedom “to believe (emphasis mine) that marriage is a union between one man and one woman.”

But the First Amendment does not protect Ms. Davis’ right to “believe” the principles of her Christian faith; it guarantees her right to practice the principles of her Christian faith, to freely exercise her Christian faith.

In truth, it is Judge Bunning who is the transgressor here.

He is violating the First Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits the federal government from interfering with the free exercise of religion. Whatever else he is doing, he is grossly interfering with Ms. Davis and her freedom to live according to her religious faith in the public square.