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Tupelo,

The Supreme Court decision did not change Kentucky law, it voided it. The LAW in Kentucky regarding marriage is that in order to get a marriage license the applicant must be two adults of the opposite sex who are not immediately blood related. The Kentucky statute that authorizes the county clerk to issue marriage licenses to anyone does not authorize her to issue a license to same sex couples. If the Supreme Court determined that the Kentucky statute was unconstitutional, then the county clerk cannot issue any marriage license at all. She isn’t. She is currently obeying the law by not issuing licenses because she currently has no authority to do so.

Your position is one that gives the Supreme Court LEGISLATIVE POWER which it does not have. Forcing this clerk to issue marriage licenses is an unconstitutional act. The court has no power to require a county clerk to violate an existing Kentucky Statute and if the statute is void, then it has no power to make up some statute that requires the state to issue marriage licenses in accordance with a void statute.

I get pretty sick and tire of people on this forum saying that this clerk needs to follow the law or quit her job. SHE’S DOING HER JOB!!!! Her job is to follow the statutory law and right now there isn’t one.

Unless and until KENTUCKY passes a law re-authorizing the issuance of marriage licenses, no clerk in Kentucky should be issuing marriage licenses to anyone.

If you disagree, then show me the currently existing statute that authorizes county clerks in Kentucky to issue marriage licenses to anyone.

The problem is not that the clerk is not following the law, THE COURTS ARE MAKING UP THE LAW. THEY HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO DO SO!!! If anyone should be quitting their jobs, it is the judges!!!!

You really need to send your opinion to her legal team and to the clerk, and maybe an amicus to the judge. Post haste.

You are correct. The legislature has not yet done anything to change the law. It is either the old law, or a non-existent law, or lawlessness. This clerk is doing the reasonable thing; she is awaiting a valid law.

You are in a unique position of clarity on this, brother, and God has placed you in position to respond and with the capacity to respond.

Great post!

In 1798, the predecessors of the current Kentucky legislature passed a resolution asserting its authority to declare the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional, nullifying these Federal laws in Kentucky. The duty of the current legislature is to follow their forbears and assert the authority to regulate marriages. Furthermore, the governor of Kentucky has a sworn duty to uphold the laws of Kentucky. If Federal authorities attempt to arrest the clerk, the state police should intervene. Furthermore, the county sheriff, instead of merely not cooperating with the Federal court, should intervene and block any attempts by Federal marshals or other Federal agents to arrest her.

Interesting what you've written here, because it avoids the issue the MSM want us fighting about... homosexuality vs. Judeo Christianity. (Why is it always about Christianity, never about how we bend the law for Islam?) The woman seems weird, I hope it's not another Westboro Baptist Church paid hoaxers who are pretending to be "Christians" but really are undermining Christianity. Anyway I noticed on Twitter that all the fake liberal accounts were tweeting stuff about this at a rapid rate.

So we are basically under mob (or media hysteria) rule?

"The Supreme Court decision did not change Kentucky law, it voided it. The LAW in Kentucky regarding marriage is that in order to get a marriage license the applicant must be two adults of the opposite sex who are not immediately blood related. The Kentucky statute that authorizes the county clerk to issue marriage licenses to anyone does not authorize her to issue a license to same sex couples. If the Supreme Court determined that the Kentucky statute was unconstitutional, then the county clerk cannot issue any marriage license at all. She isn’t. She is currently obeying the law by not issuing licenses because she currently has no authority to do so.

Your position is one that gives the Supreme Court LEGISLATIVE POWER which it does not have. Forcing this clerk to issue marriage licenses is an unconstitutional act. The court has no power to require a county clerk to violate an existing Kentucky Statute and if the statute is void, then it has no power to make up some statute that requires the state to issue marriage licenses in accordance with a void statute.

I get pretty sick and tire of people on this forum saying that this clerk needs to follow the law or quit her job. SHE’S DOING HER JOB!!!! Her job is to follow the statutory law and right now there isn’t one.

Unless and until KENTUCKY passes a law re-authorizing the issuance of marriage licenses, no clerk in Kentucky should be issuing marriage licenses to anyone.

If you disagree, then show me the currently existing statute that authorizes county clerks in Kentucky to issue marriage licenses to anyone.

The problem is not that the clerk is not following the law, THE COURTS ARE MAKING UP THE LAW. THEY HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO DO SO!!! If anyone should be quitting their jobs, it is the judges!!!!"