Kim Davis obeying orders in gay marriage case, judges rules

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has obeyed orders to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the months since she spent five nights in jail for refusing to do so, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

United States District Judge David Bunning denied the American Civil Liberties Union's request to order Davis to reissue licenses she had altered to remove her name and title or face the possibility of further punishment. He found that Davis has allowed her deputies to issue licenses to anyone eligible since September and that the altered licenses are likely valid under Kentucky law. ...

Patriots beware!

These articles about Ms Davis wrongly give the impression that judges call the shots in our constitutional republic.

The problem is that institutionally indoctrinated justices and judges seem to be clueless that the states have never amended the Constitution to address marriage. And the Constitutions silence about marriage means two things.

The Founding States had made the 10th Amendment (10A) to clarify that the Constitutions silence about issues like marriage means that the states, not the corrupt feds, uniquely have the power to regulate marriage.
The Constitutions silence about marriage also means that it is not a constitutionally enumerated right.

So the individual states are free to make 10A-protected laws which prohibit constitutionally unprotected gay marriage. Yet no justice or judge has lifted a finger to protect state sovereignty.

The bottom line is that pro-gay activist justices not only stole legislative powers to wrongly ”amend” to the Constitution from the bench the PC right to gay marriage, but they breached the Founding States division of federal and state government powers and stole 10A-protected state legislative powers to do so.

In fact, in cases like that of Ms Davis, both federal and state governments are wrongly ignoring Section 1 of the 14th Amendment. Section 1 prohibits the states from making laws / policies which abridge the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens, the 1st Amendments protection of religious expression in the case of Ms Davis.

14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Remember in November !

When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach.

Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring, pro-gay activist justices.

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