{"450851":{"#nid":"450851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LMC Chair Richard Utz on Kim Davis and America\u0027s Long Middle Ages","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this month, Richard Utz gave a striking analysis of Kim Davis\u0027s controversial decisions regarding her refusal to grant marriage liscences to same sex couples. He grounds this analysis in the linguistic history of the words \u0022clerk\u0022 and \u0022clergy\u0022.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.medievalists.net\/2015\/09\/08\/a-clerk-ther-was-of-rowan-county-also-what-the-kim-davis-case-tells-us-about-americas-long-middle-ages\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022What I am saying, then, is that Kim Davis, in her rejection of the modern separation of church and state, is performing an act of political medievalism, albeit one she may well perceive as the simple adherence to an unbroken heritage.\u0022"}],"uid":"28518","created_gmt":"2015-09-23 12:09:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:36","author":"Jessica Anderson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"404111":{"id":"404111","type":"image","title":"Richard Utz","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1539181964","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:32:44","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication Chair Richard Utz","file":{"fid":"75989","name":"s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29255,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg?itok=DUqiN_VU"}}},"media_ids":["404111"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}