Kim Davis is entering her fourth day of confinement at the Carter County Detention Center in Kentucky, but on Saturday supporters rallied to her defense just outside her cell in a “Free Kim Davis” rally. Meanwhile, her attorney Michael Staver of the the law firm Liberty Counsel reported that she was ‘sleeping soundly and in good conscience.’

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Gay activists are beginning to become alarmed.

“This is what the other side wants. This is a biblical story, to go to jail for your faith. We don’t want to make her a martyr to the people who are like her, who want to paint themselves as victims,” said Kenneth Upton, senior legal counsel for Lambda Legal, a law firm specializing in LGBT rights. The American Civil Liberties Union, representing the couples she turned away, had initially asked that Davis be fined rather than imprisoned to avoid a “false persecution story,” according to an ACLU attorney.

But jailed she was, and she still remains imprisoned.

Eugene Volokh, a law professor who teaches free speech, religious freedom law, and church-state relations law at UCLA School of Law, just might be the most knowledgeable person to address the Kim Davis case — and Volokh writes that Davis has a strong claim for exemption from issuing marriage licenses which bear her name, using Kentucky’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.