Posted on 09/03/2015 4:52:22 AM PDT by Nextrush
"......maybe we're not doing all we can, living up to His Holy Word, cause phonies have come and wrong's been done, even killing in Jesus name and if you been burned here's what I've learned, the Lord's not the one to blame...."
"How Can They Live Without Jesus"-Keith Green
The trashing of Rowan County, Kentucky Chief Clerk Kim Davis's past reminds me of my own past.
I'm a drunk thankful to God as I understand God for another day of sobriety. While I was drunk, I used to use God's name a lot, in vain as it were.
I said crazy things, I posted crazy things here on FR but I'm still here, able to say I was wrong.
I think some of my past actions or words may have hurt some people who happen to be gay and I know I was wrong to have said or done those things.
I may not identify as LGBTQ etc. etc. but I sure do identify with feelings of alienation and a sense that other people were out to get me like those 'religious hyprocrites trying to force their religion on me'. Like many who identify as gay I have been hurt in real or imagined ways by religious people and or clergy.
Over the years of my religious hypocrisy and drunkenness I took in media that massaged my resentments and hatreds towards those who cause the world's problems like bigger government, higher taxes, more spending, more debt, abortion and so on....the Democrats...the liberals....the liberal media....and they offered me a solution...the GOP.
I'm sure religious folks in Kentucky got the same pitch I did and were told to vote for Republicans like Senator Mitch McConnell and former Senator Jim Bunning because they were all for 'family values' and 'freedom'. Well, soon we may find out how much that means when Bunning's son, US District Judge David Bunning, holds a contempt hearing for Davis and decides if she will be penalized for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Bunning's mother tells the media that he "disagrees with the Supreme Court's decision" but "he will uphold the law".
The Republican State Senate leader in Kentucky appears to be trying to find a way to sidestep an act of civil disobedience over gay marriage from taking hold.
Senate President Robert Stivers is asking Judge Bunning to withhold his ruling that Davis has to issue gay marriage licenses until legislation can be passed to exempt her from having to issue marriage licenses.
It makes sense to me for the GOP to try to prevent any civil disobedience controversy from disrupting their political agenda just as JFK's Democrats tried to sidestep Dr. Martin Luther King's civil disobedience campaign's in the 1960's.
We'll see if that holds any water as events begin to unfold later today at Judge Bunning's courtroom in Covington, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
Another note, some are putting out posts along the lines of 'she's a Democrat' and 'this is a trap for conservatives'.
Are these from Republican Party headquarters, from folks who don't want civil disobedience to disrupt their next election plan to deceive grassroots conservative in general and religious conservatives in particular?
The LGBTQ activists have been devious and tricky as they've waged their relentless campaign to legalize gay marriage, but I'll set that aside for now.
In case you folks at GOP HQ haven't heard by now, we at the grassroots don't want Republicans caving in or avoiding fights anymore. We want a fight. Many like myself want it to be a non violent one, others who knows?
We long for elected officials like Kim Davis who will practice civil disobedience and have had it with the fake conservatism and utter lack of meaningful actions exhibited by virtually all elected Republican officials.
We are Fed Up Beyond All Recognition.
God Bless All from Kim Davis to Judge Bunning to the plantiffs in this case, but something just has to give in this country because the politicians have failed.
There is an exception to rendering unto Caesar: when Caesar’s commands conflict with God’s. This is pointed out in Acts 5: 26-29. The examples of Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-Nego and Daniel in the book of Daniel are worthy of following, too.
Too many conservatives are calling for this lady to submit to the power of the judiciary. They are ignoring that no law has been replaced, so there is nothing for this woman to operate on.
The judge does not get to write the new law.
And just because a judge says your law cannot forbid homosexual marriage does not mean that a clerk can simply start issuing homosexual marriage licenses.
The legislature could have something entirely different in mind. That old law was written to a particular culture. In a new culture they might want to have an entirely different system.
yep. nobody is asking her to personally recognize it....only administering the state’s decision to recognize it...
Well, if we tied voting to those NOT on welfare, Dumbo surely would NEVER have been elected....an idea where I see NO conflict Constitutionally.
Why should one be able to vote MORE $$ of another into their own pockets when they are are already on the dole?
Same goes for unions and all else of crony Capitalism/Fascism....No donations, no lobbying, no volunteering of time/etc. when one is paid/given $$ by the taxpayers
She’s currently FOLLOWING the ‘rules’ (Law). She has no obligation to enforce a judicial decree by black robed tyrants.
Her rallying cry should be, “Show me the statute...”
What "law"? SCOTUS invalidated KY law. They did NOT replace it.
Only the KY legislature can do that.
Amen!
Jim Bunning needs to discipline his errant son sitting as a black-robed tyrant.
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