[Wallace T.]

In 1775, the provincial assemblies in the British colonies of Virginia and Massachusetts engaged in massive resistance to royal authority to the point of assembling militias to resist the crown. In 1798, the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky declared the Alien and Sedition Acts illegitimate in their states and prevented the enforcement of these Federal laws. Will the governor of Kentucky or the sheriff of Rowan County prevent the enforcement of Federal law with respect to this Supreme Court decision? If they fail to do so, the county clerk becomes just another martyr.

Until someone in authority who has command of armed police forces stands up to the Federal government, this ruling and others will stand unchallenged. This is the theory of the lesser magistrate, that was invoked in pre-independence America to justify this country's secession from the British Empire.

[Diamond]

Will the governor of Kentucky or the sheriff of Rowan County prevent the enforcement of Federal law with respect to this Supreme Court decision? If they fail to do so, the county clerk becomes just another martyr.

Until someone in authority who has command of armed police forces stands up to the Federal government, this ruling and others will stand unchallenged. This is the theory of the lesser magistrate, that was invoked in pre-independence America to justify this country's secession from the British Empire.

I'm on the same page with you with reference to that Sheriff and the Governor. Thank you for mentioning the historical precedent. That precedent is very important. Those other officials ought to follow their oaths and uphold Kentucky law, which presumably has no Statute authorizing sodomite "marriage".

The last time I checked, the Extreme Court did not have any authority to draft and pass Kentucky Statutes.

Cordially,

[don-o]

Until someone in authority who has command of armed police forces stands up to the Federal government, this ruling and others will stand unchallenged. This is the theory of the lesser magistrate, that was invoked in pre-independence America to justify this country's secession from the British Empire.

Perfectly stated and the crux of the matter. George Wallace was the last governor who tried this and he got the National Guard on him. But, racial segregation was not a Christian value, imo.