{"451231":{"#nid":"451231","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What the Kim Davis Case Tells Us about America\u2019s Long Middle Ages","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/utz\u0022\u003ERichard Utz\u003C\/a\u003E, chair of the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication, \u003C\/strong\u003Epublished an article on \u003Cem\u003EMedievalists.net\u003C\/em\u003E entitled \u201cA clerk there was of Rowan County also\u2026What the Kim Davis Case Tells Us about America\u2019s Long Middle Ages.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe says:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHave you ever thought about the relationship between the words \u2018clerk\u2019 and \u2018clergy\u2019? \u2018Clerk\u2019 we associate with someone doing \u2018clerical\u2019 work, like \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/04\/us\/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage.html?_r=0\u0022\u003EKim Davis\u003C\/a\u003E, the Rowan County Clerk who has now been jailed for contempt of court after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. County clerks are usually responsible for issuing various county licenses (marriage, motel, liquor, bingo), keeping records, issuing certificates of vital statistics (birth, death, marriage), computing tax extensions, and maintaining accurate county maps. \u2018Clergy\u2019 we associate with any and all religious leaders, especially those ordained for religious duties in Christian denominations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\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\u003EContinue to full article\u2026\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27498","created_gmt":"2015-09-23 15:37:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:44","author":"Rachel Miles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"GEAR UP","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/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\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","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":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"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":""}}}