Posted on 09/04/2015 6:39:46 PM PDT by massmike
In 2004, 75% of Kentucky voters passed a State Constitutional Amendment restricting marriage to one man and one woman. On Thursday, Sept. 3, County Clerk Kim Davis was sent to jail by U.S. District Judge David Bunning because she refuses to issue “gay marriage” licenses, a decision which she says is rooted in her strong Christian faith.
The judge told her that she’ll stay in jail until she’s willing to change her mind -- and go against her conscience and faith. He said that he’d review the situation in a week. The judge said that he jailed her because fining her “would not bring about the desired result of compliance”.
There are approximately 125 county officials throughout Kentucky who can issue “gay marriage” licenses. But the judge was adamant that every county official must be forced to do it and that religious freedom cannot be allowed, despite the First Amendment. “The idea of natural law superseding this court’s authority would be a dangerous precedent indeed,” he said.
Most pro-family people didn’t see the chilling article that appeared in The Nation, a major left-wing magazine, the day before the U.S. Supreme Court “gay marriage” ruling came out. The article outlines where the LGBT movement is going after “gay marriage.”
The Nation article, “What’s Next for the LGBT Movement?”, quotes four high-profile LGBT activists who reveal that “gay marriage” was never their final goal. The LGBT movement will not be stopping to rest, they say. Their plan is to delegitimize and crush all opposition to their agenda everywhere in America – particularly in the churches -- no matter how small.
Some of the things the article outlines:
“Dis-establish marriage.” “Gay marriage” was simply a stepping stone. Their actual goal is that there be no formal marriage rules at all. This means group marriages are next, then incestuous marriages, and later even marriages to minors. It would simply be up to the people directly involved to decide.
Pass strong LGBT “non-discrimination” laws across the US. These are the laws that force bakers to bake “gay marriage” cakes or face huge punishments. Such laws would also force schools to include LGBT indoctrination. Most states still do not have the onerous laws the LGBT movement demands. The activists refer to those states (mostly in the South and Midwest) as “zones without rights” in their propaganda.
Ban all “religious liberty” laws. They consider religious liberty to be a dangerous ploy to “undermine all civil rights laws” that must be stopped at all costs. All people must be forced to follow the LGBT agenda, with no exceptions.
Demonize pro-family conservatives and silence all dissent. They plan to direct “massive amounts of funds” to “expose and defeat the right wing” across America.
Push a radical political agenda. They plan to leverage their power to support Marxist economic policies, the right to “early term abortion,” and similar policies.
Last month the Denver City Council moved to deny the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain permission to do business at the Denver Airport because the company’s president said he does not agree with “gay marriage.” One Council member labeled the president’s pro-marriage beliefs “discriminatory political rhetoric,” and must not be allowed to make profits from the city’s airport. (Chick-fil-A restaurants have never been accused of actually discriminating against anyone.)
The national homosexual group Human Rights Campaign is already raising millions of dollars to fight religious freedom laws around the country.
And of course, there’s the upswing of left-wing hate and demonization of religious people. The day after Kim Davis was jailed, the Boston Globe prominently published an op-ed article titled “Kim Davis follows the footsteps of George Wallace” which states, among other things, that “Davis is just the latest in a long, infernal line of fanatics to contort their so-called faith into an excuse for hatred and division.” The Left’s hatred of religious people is visceral, and now it’s coming to the forefront.
The jailing of Kim Davis by Judge Bunning, like most of the Left’s actions, has more than a whiff of hypocrisy. When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom began illegally ordering county clerks to issue “gay marriage” licenses in 2004, or in 2009 when California clerks (and the Governor) ignored the Prop 8 ruling against issuing “gay marriage” licenses, no judge intervened at all. (And they were actually breaking laws. In Davis' case, there is only a court ruling.)
It pains us to say it, but for decades the pro-family movement has been crippled from gaining ground by cowards and compromisers, from top to bottom. Don’t get us started on what led to the disastrous the Supreme Court “gay marriage” ruling. And it continues with the Kim Davis issue.
While Kim Davis sits in jail, five of her six deputy clerks shamelessly have agreed to abide by the judge’s wishes and started issuing “gay marriage” licenses. (The one holdout is her son.) According to news reports, starting the very next day they were issuing them quite cheerfully, even shaking the hands of the homosexual couples with their new marriage licenses.
A disturbing number of pro-family and church leaders across the country have sided with the Federal Judge, saying that Kim Davis should go to jail for “not following the law.” (As mentioned above there is no “law” on the books – it is only a court ruling. Nor could the judge cite such a law.)
Even the National Review has published an article saying “[R]eligious-liberty protections cannot act as a bar to gay couples: If the law permits a U.S. citizen to get a license, there must be a way for the gay couple to access it, with their dignity intact." Wonderful. What a lame movement we're in!
We can certainly see what’s coming up. It’s a hardcore take-no-prisoners approach. We must react accordingly. What most of our movement has tried hasn’t worked and isn’t going to work.
MassResistance believes that their whole program must be confronted. Using what resources we have, we believe in taking the offensive. This means challenging that movement everywhere we can. First and foremost means not holding back on telling the unabashed truth, no matter what the consequences. (For example, most conservatives are squeamish about talking about the well-documented medical and psychological destructiveness of homosexual behavior.)
The LGBT movement wins when we become afraid to confront them. (And we’re coming up with an innovative way to do just that.)
We will be discussing this further in upcoming posts.
What’s Next for the LGBT Movement?
http://www.thenation.com/article/whats-next-lgbt-movement/
Free Kim Davis
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423551/free-kim-davis
Boston Globe: Kim Davis follows the footsteps of George Wallace
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/09/03/renee-graham-kim-davis-follows-footsteps-george-wallace/4Hqsf6bhQoXMwhjLu0cMLO/story.html
The "she should resign" crowd is out in force here on Free Republic.
They will arrive here shortly.
“she should resign” = surrendering MORE ground to the perverts
“Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me”.
IT HAS happened before, IT WILL happen again.
The Deputy Clerks should be arrested for breaking Kentucky state law, including forgery (using the Clerk’s signature without her permission).
IT IS happening again.
First the inroads against religious belief with Obamacare, now with the very nature of marriage itself.
The Almighty made His view on the subject quite clear: He eradicated the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
We permit this nation to go there at our peril.
Is this why the United States is not mentioned in the end times prophesies?
And pseudo-conservatives say that pervert “marriage” is a non-issue and that we should move on. Such wretched pronouncements move me on... to revulsion at such nauseating notions. The homofascists are determined to enslave us. That is *not* a non-issue!
[[County Clerk Kim Davis jailed as the post-‘gay marriage’ revolution ratchets up. ]]
The gay community swore up and down BEFORE the supreme court ILLEGALLY legislated from the bench and created a new constitutional amendment out of think air, that they would NOT go after CHristians, or conservatives or anyone, because all they wanted was ‘to be happy” and to ‘marry their partners’
They swore up and down they would NOT, yet we saw them going after bakers, printers, florists, photographers, and now county clerks
Yep- they promised they just wanted to live their lives together and not bother anyone- We now see how much their word is worth... ZERO!
Yup. It went from losing one’s livelihood for not joining the gay parade,now they’re arresting people for it! What’ll it take to open eyes? When the public floggings start?
Ted Cruz Reveals Why People Demanding Kim Davis Resign Are Massive Hypocrites
“She should resign” is the same as saying “Committed Christians are not qualified to serve in public office.”
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