What are they going to do with the 30 judges who refuse to do the same thing? Jail them too?
Time for REAL PREACHERS TO STAND UP FOR JESUS!
Posted on 09/04/2015 8:00:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Grayson, KY – Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, will join supporters at a rally outside the Carter County Detention Center on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. ET. The “I’m with Kim” Rally is organized by Gov. Mike Huckabee. Liberty Counsel is willing to join any group that stands in support of Kim Davis.
“Not long ago 75 percent of Kentuckians passed the state’s marriage amendment. Today a Christian is imprisoned for believing what the voters affirmed, that marriage is between a man and a woman,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Five people on the Supreme Court imposed their will on 320 million Americans and unleashed a torrent of assaults against people of faith. Kim Davis is the first victim of this tragedy.”
“I visited with Kim today, and she is good spirits,” Staver said. “I went to the jail to encourage her, but she encouraged me! Her opening and closing comment was, “All is well!”
“Kim Davis supporters have been calling, emailing, and using social media to ask, ‘What can I do to help Kim?’” Staver said. “I have already heard from pastors who are sending buses of supporters to the rally on Tuesday. If you are near Kentucky, here is a great opportunity to stand against judicial tyranny and the unlawful imprisonment of Kim. Join us on Tuesday, September 8, at 3:00 p.m.!”
Tues., Sept. 8, 2015 at 3:00 PM ET
Carter County Detention Center
13 Crossbar Road, Grayson, KY
Liberty Counsel is an international nonprofit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989, by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topics.
Standing with Kim
Live here in Fruita Colorado -daily prayers for Kim Davis and her people.Will be passing on to all that I will be on my face Tuesday in prayer for this rally.—for Kim Davis— for KY(love the people I met there) and for the US of A
Am already committed to be in northeast Georgia on Wednesday and don’t think I could make it back from Kentucky in time. Will try to make the next rally.
Recall reading how he said in earlier judgement of Kim Davis -that the whole system will fail unless we “respect” the supreme Court decisions.
I sent a letter to him saying I respect such when I can reconcile their opinion to the written Constitution Judges in every State are constitutionally bound by (Article VI)
The Constitution is to our system of Govt. what the bible ought be to all Christians. Sadly a goodly number of both camps tend to think they know better than what is written.
....”Sadly a goodly number of both camps tend to think they know better than what is written”.....
Our Government doesn’t care one iotta of the Constitution or the regulations regarding accountability...there is none... because it’s all been “taken over”...and not in the best interests of this nation at all....and the bible to them is just another book.
This is what Cruz has been fighting ‘in’ Washington and why the left ‘and’ right use whatever means they can to shut him up... and down....he’s exposing them....and they know it...
‘Congress’ isn’t governing according to the constitution...neither are the courts...there is no accountability because they’re all playing their treacherous game together against this nation and it’s people except for a very precious few....it’s heartbreaking when you see some of the guts of this coup.
But good you wrote........
My Senators always give a political dialogue of their positions and why they have them...they never address what I inquire of....typical .
Bump!
Can’t be there in person. Be there in spirit.
Mark post 73
Thank you (not aware of this history), loveliberty2. Great post in a great thread of posts.
Well said and sadly true. He put her in for contempt of court. They all exceed their authority. But our silence gives consent, the silent majority has become the silent enablers.
What are they going to do with the 30 judges who refuse to do the same thing? Jail them too?
Time for REAL PREACHERS TO STAND UP FOR JESUS!
Thanks, Aqua.
Hope they get a huge turnout. We need to start showing this overreaching government that we are unhappy.
"Perhaps the single most important issue in the Kim Davis situation (the County Clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who was jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses) -- an issue about which most observers and commentators have been completely silent -- is the flagrant violation of the constitutionally-mandated separation of powers.
By way of background, Federal Judge David Bunning ruled that Davis was in contempt of court, which a court can legitimately do. But he then ordered federal marshals enforce his decision and take her into custody, which he cannot do. Federal marshals are part of the Executive Branch, not the Judicial Branch; he has absolutely no authority to order any federal marshal to do anything.
Significantly, the Founders -- and thus the Constitution -- did not give power to the Judiciary to enforce any of its decisions -- they deliberately made it powerless in this regards. They made the Executive Branch alone responsible for enforcement.
So while Judge Bunning can (and did) issue his personal opinion regarding Kim Davis, his personal opinion does not have the force of law. (By the way, check any civics book: a law must originate as a measure proposed in the House or Senate, be passed by both, and then signed by the president. Only then and by this means does anything become law.) Bunning must thus ask (not order) the Executive Branch to enforce his opinion, and if it agrees, it can order its marshals to do so, but the Judicial Branch may order no such thing.
Sadly, not only did the Judicial Branch first take on itself the role of the Legislative Branch by issuing its ruling in the homosexual-marriage decision, but now it has assumed the role of the Executive Branch by attempting to enforce its own opinion. The Founding Fathers vehemently objected to this practice. As George Washington warned: "[T]hose entrusted with its [the nation’s] administration [must] confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism."
James Madison similarly charged: "The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be universally maintained but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves."
Samuel Adams agreed: "In all good governments, the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary powers are confined within the limits of their respective departments. If therefore it should be found that . . . either of the departments aforesaid should interfere with another, it will, if continued, essentially alter the Constitution, and may, in time, . . . be productive of such convulsions as may shake the political ground upon which we now happily stand."
Thomas Jefferson thus admonished that we must "cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [i.e., the Constitution] has established" and that if we ever move away from its separation of powers that "we shall be in danger of foundering."
Perhaps political philosopher Charles de Montesquieu -- a favorite of the Founders, and the most-cited human source in the political writings of the Founding Era -- said it best when he declared: "There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers."
So while the Kim Davis travesty continues, perhaps the most dangerous aspect of the entire controversy is that Judge Bunning personally ordered her to jail, thus blatantly violating one of the Constitution's most important provisions for securing the liberty of the entire people".
DB
Thanks for the ping. Are Government issued marriage licenses even a necessary thing? Why should the Government have any say over whether a couple gets married anyway?
Why should couples have to ask the Government’s permission? In some states, if the couples just shack up together long enough the Government declares them a “Common Law” marriage, and those people don’t ask the Government’s permission to live together.
Marriage is a religious institution, so just ignore the Government, and let each religion determine how things are going to be done. The preacher performs the ceremony, and forget about the Government.
This needs to be approached on a Constitutional basis. That Supreme Court decision on homosexuals marriages was in itself unconstitutional and needs to be nullified. States need to start nullifYing SCOTUS decisions and we need a convention of the states to defend this 9 headed monstrosity.
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