"When law & morality
contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing
his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." – Frederic Bastiat
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It didn’t take long for one of the
three terrible Supreme Court rulings from this past June to take hold &
start its purposeful ruinous path undermining America - as it was intended to
do.
I am referring to the Supreme
Court’s activist ruling that not only legalized homosexual marriage but explains that everyone who does not follow the Court’s
“better informed understanding” of what constitutes marriage demeans or
stigmatizes homosexual couples meaning such people are bigots subject to the
enforcement of anti-discrimination laws.
(The other
two rulings pertained to ObamaCare & the legal theory of disparate impact
practices in housing - neighborhoods many of us have lived in for generations
could very well be determined to be discriminatory & illegal in their racial
make up.)
The case in point of this
post is the jailing of Clerk of the Court Kim Davis, Rowan County, Kentucky, who
was imprisoned, without bail, in a cell by herself, last week for contempt of
court for not processing marriage licenses to homosexual couples under her
signature because it violated her Apostolic Christian faith that defines
marriage as the union of a man & a woman. The legal action originated from
a lawsuit against Mrs. Davis by four couples, represented by the ACLU, who were
denied marriage licenses.
So we have quickly reached the collision of the
irresistible force meeting the immovable object where the religious freedom
rights under the First Amendment of Mrs. Davis contrast with the aforementioned
Supreme Court ruling regarding the legality of homosexual marriage & the
violation of anti-discrimination statutes.
U.S. Judge David Bunning of the
Eastern District of Kentucky found the aforementioned Supreme Court ruling &
anti-discrimination laws take precedence over Mrs. Davis’s First Amendment
rights. Talk about turning the Constitution on its head.
This matter does not offer an easy politically
correct solution because Mrs. Davis is an elected official who cannot be fired –
she can be impeached by the Kentucky legislature (who will not be in session
again before January) or removed from office if convicted of a crime so this
case is really a matter of public opinion & support & whether or not the
spirit of Mrs. Davis & her family can be broken.
Earlier on Tuesday the Judge lifted the contempt sanction against Mrs.
Davis & released her from prison because he was satisfied that the Clerk’s
office, through her deputies (five of six), had complied with the court’s order
to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples once Mrs. Davis was out of her
office. Click here to read the judge’s order.
The only thing different after the judge issued
his order is that Mrs. Davis is free – if she actively holds to her convictions
in the Clerk’s office by interfering with her clerks who are complying with the
Supreme Court’s ruling she could return to jail & the impasse would
continue.
The genesis of the
homosexual marriage problem is the 1,100 federal laws that rest on the
definition of marriage – over the years homosexual couples have felt left out
(hiding their true feelings & sexual proclivities) & discriminated
against because of these laws. It only stands to reason that if “marriage” was
defined as the union of one man & one woman since well before the founding
of this country that problems could develop if suddenly the definition of
“marriage” changed.
Had the federal government not stuck its
nose in regarding a matter that according to the Tenth Amendment is “reserved to
the States respectively, or to the people” if for no other reason than the word
“marriage” is never mentioned in the Constitution the case could never have been
brought or @ least not under the original line of complaint protesting the
unequal protection of the 1,100 federal laws. Do away with these laws & you
have removed the equal protection of the laws argument.
Fair minded people are not for
destroying one person’s rights while upholding another’s. Many people who
support homosexual marriage find it appalling that someone else's religious
rights or personal beliefs can be the reason for fines or penalties – or in the
case of Kim Davis jail time in an isolated cell. But this is the situation we
are in today thanks to the Supreme Court’s activist ruling this past June that
legalized homosexual marriage when the majority of the Court made law out of
thin air.
The enemies of America, like six of the Supreme
Court justices, have quickly dropped their pretense of respect for people of
faith with the jailing of Kim Davis as well as not accepting her appeal of the
matter back to the Supreme Court – which rejected her appeal to block a lower
court order that directed her to issue homosexual marriage licenses without
explanation in a brief one-line order.
As such, County Clerks now join bakers, florists,
& photographers on the list of professions who have run afoul of the law
concerning homosexual weddings because they do not want to provide their
services on religious grounds involving homosexual marriage ceremonies.
Accordingly it is not far fetched to one day soon in America see priests forced
to officiate @ homosexual marriage ceremonies or for all faiths, except Islam,
being pressured to redefine marriage to include homosexuals.
So the onslaught of our liberty with the intent to
confiscate every bit of wealth created by the people of the United States will
continue as long as a far too great portion of the American population takes
their freedom for granted but still wants to be taken care of through one
government program after another.
It has been suggested by our enemies in the media
that one way to make this go away is for Mrs. Davis to resign her $80,000 per
year job after twenty-seven years of service in the Clerk’s office. They are
asking her to give up her livelihood & a secure future in her later years
because five lawyers in black robes that most people could not identify or name
blatantly betrayed their oaths to follow the Constitution.
The playing out of this Davis case provides an
excellent chance to turn the mindset around that the Supreme Court is the final
say on every matter. Contrary to the writings & actions of Alexander
Hamilton & Abraham Lincoln, in particular, current politicians love the
cover that the Supremes provide in issuing one unconstitutional ruling after
another that lets politicians off the hook of responsibility as the country
becomes more & more impoverished – economically, intellectually, &
morally – every day.
The Davis case is about much more than a Kentucky
county clerk not issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples. It is about
statist elites making the Constitution irrelevant by not teaching it in the
schools for decades; it is about falsely honoring the Supreme Court with a name
that sounds like it is superior to any other branch of government when the
Constitution says “the judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in
one supreme Court, & in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time
to time ordain & establish.” The Davis case gives us a
chance to clearly recognize this usurpation of individual freedom & take
appropriate action – peaceably or otherwise.
Poor countries are prey to dictators & radicals
& BO has us just about where he wants us on this score.
People take their freedom for granted & still
think the statist elites care about them to provide government programs as an
entitled right they deserve. Who could believe that all of the concern
described herein by the statist elites is for homosexual marriage rights?
Homosexuals are just the pawns being used following another
larger agenda – like prohibiting the free exercise of religion of the American
people & the destruction this will cause.
This case with Kim Davis shows the cruelty we can
expect as we teeter on the apathy to dependence stage just about ready for
dependence back into bondage.
