Posted on 09/03/2015 5:41:30 PM PDT by markomalley
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She’s an elected official, and can’t be fired except by voters in her county, so a federal judge had her thrown in jail today. I expected as much. Any true civil-disobedience act must come with the willingness to bear the legal consequences of your extra-legal behavior. Davis politely thanked the judge before being carted off to the clink.
If it were me, I also would have submitted to the governing authority, but not without a resounding “SAY WHAT, YOUR HONOR?!” after he said this…
“The idea of natural law superceding [sic] this court’s authority would be a dangerous precedent indeed,” U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning told Rowan County clerk Kim Davis.
Actually, your honor, the sovereignty of natural law over man-made authority is a founding principle — a starting point of the underlying political theory — of our constitutional republic. These United States separated from the British monarchy because we were entitled to by “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” and not subservient to the alleged divine right of kings, nor to an imperious Parliament.
We ordained and established a Constitution of enumerated powers, not of general legislative authority, and “We, the People” gave Congress authority to legislate only within the powers granted in the Constitution. The rest belongs to the states, to the people and, obviously, to the great lawmaker and judge of us all.
Not only does natural law supersede the court’s authority, the judge’s authority is utterly dependent upon the existence of such a law, and — whether one wishes to acknowledge it or not — upon the authority of God.
This is not to say that each individual person may decide what natural law (or God’s law) shall be for the entire republic. But it certainly does not mean that a federal judge’s authority supersedes the law of God, or “natural law.”
“The idea of natural law superceding [sic] this court’s authority would be a dangerous precedent indeed,” U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning told Rowan County clerk Kim Davis.
The above quote should scare the living h3ll out of each one of us. The fact that this arrogance is not the lede everyplace shows the utter tyranny into which this country has descended.
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While I am down for the struggle, it is a good time to be old.
The day will come when the judge learns all about natural law. None of us avoid it, and he can meet the Judge of Judges and plead his case there.
I think this Putz should be relived of his command and placed a warm dim room, eating jello with his hands until his mind clears...
This “judge” needs to be taken out and fitted for a nice coat of tar and feathers.
Well, I guess it didn’t take long to show we were right last night. We aren’t gonna have to go anywhere with our rifles. The sumbitches are only too happy to bring their crap right to our doorsteps, it appears.
so called conservative politicians and commentators are saying that she’s in the wrong because the rule of law must stand.
There was no ‘law’ the Supremacist Court false gods in black dresses’ decree. They willed it to be so. No legal basis for their decision. The “rule of law” is dead in this country, it is anarchy and tyranny. You can surrender to the tyrants who reject legal precedence...
I do believe I have lived too long.
By the way, FYI...the Judge is the son of former Kentucky Senator and baseball Hall of Famer, Jim Bunning.
Sadly, that’s the predicament of many patriots.
Well, to be fair, the law has a lot to go on by way of statue and precedent.
As to what “natural law” may or may not be — there is nothing in the law which gives any guidance.
Too late. Anthony Kennedy and his band did that already.
There seems to me that a reasonable accommodation is being ignored for the sake of confrontation here. There are employed in the clerk’s office willing to issue licenses to gays and following the questionable law. If the clerk’s name is substituted for by the deputy’s name and the willing deputy issues the license there is no need to negate the religious objection of the first clerk.
My family motto is “Die spitting blood.”
Looks like that may well happen, especially with my sons and me. Probably my daughter and the rest as well.
Just read he was nominated by President Bush.
Bush sure knew how to pick ‘em.
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Welcome to the First Century AD.
On Sep 4 2001. Probably a TurdBlossom pick.
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