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Posted on 09/04/2015 3:21:32 PM PDT by Biggirl
As of Friday morning, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis sits in jail for her refusal to hand out state licenses for same-sex marriages. She cited her First Amendment religious liberty in her defense. She was arrested after being held in contempt by a federal judge, District Judge David L. Bunning.
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For the life of me, I can’t fathom why there are not currently THOUSANDS of armed Christians knocking on the door of the jail house. Now IS the time. If we can’t get her released, we need to kneel and accept our chains.
Pretty sure most of us are praying more that those chains rest lightly on our shoulders. No one wants to cast them off anymore. I believe society, in general, is comfortable being enslaved. It’s a natural “default,” if you will.
It’s ironic how we Christians are being chained while at the same time in non-denominational churches around the country (and perhaps the world, too), the most popular and powerful new worship song is ‘No Longer Slaves’.
Last I checked, ever since slavery, you CANNOT be jailed for refusing to do your job. Any lawyer worth his salt should be able to get her out on the basis of anti-slavery laws.
When an appointed judge can jail an elected official, it is tyranny over We The People.
Levin talking about this tonight- passionately. He knows her lawyer and says Davis is in very capable hands.
Well, as I understood it, she refused to issue licenses to either opposite-sex or same-sex couples, in order to be on safer legal ground. That way it couldn’t be played as a discrimination case but more as an objecting to do your job case. So how she could end up in jail even in light of that still makes no sense to me. The judge ordered her to do her job, she refused and he put her in jail. When’s the last time anyone in the U.S. was jailed for refusing to do their job?
I suppose it’s happened, but offhand I can’t remember when.
The chilling part to me was the judge opining that he was the arbiter, NOT natural law. In fact, he said the court is ABOVE natural law.
The vast majority of Americans are weak kneed at best. It is the way it is and the reason that we(USA) are going down hard as a nation.
I think for most, there will be about five minutes of attention and then they will move on with their personal lives. As long as it does not directly touch their own lives it is ok.
The USSC ruled that the present KY marriage law is unconstitutional. But the present KY law is the only law there is. The KY legislature hasn't written and passed a different marriage law, more to the USCC's liking, and of course the USSC can't write or pass a law, they're not a legislature.
Therefore KY now has no marriage law.
Therefore nobody can legally license a "marriage" for anybody in the state of KY, since --- ahem --- there is no law.
What's she supposed to do? She is keeping the law as it stands: lex nulla. Can a judge put her in jail for keeping the law?
Right, most people I talk to say if doesn’t affect their day to day lives then why act. They do not realize that by waiting until it does affect them, well it’s too late.
SCOTUS rules that both opposite sex and same sex couples have a right to get married in all 50 states and their marriage would be recognized in all 50 states. They didn’t rule that county and state clerks and judges have to make that happen.
Why can’t state legislatures just make a law that no one employed by the state or local governments will issue marriage licenses or conduct marriages, period?
SCOTUS does not make laws, legislatures do. If marriage is now federalized and no longer under state purview, then the federal government needs to be the ones to deal with marriage.
I believe the term Marx used was “mass delusion.” Spend an hour browsing the comments on YouTube, Reddit, or Imgur, and you’ll see the youth of the world are completely enthralled by Bernie Sanders and hope that America goes socialist to join the worldwide cabal of formerly-great nations.
And I think a lot of formerly strong-willed Americans are kind of giving up too. That’s one of the draws of Trump: he says what everyone’s thinking. Sadly, it doesn’t take a genius to read the tea leaves, and before it’s all over, I believe we’re going to be stuck with brother Jeb.
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