“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.
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.
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.
Just read he was nominated by President Bush.
Bush sure knew how to pick ‘em.
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Have you noticed all the homosexual weddings?
I haven’t even heard of one outside these spectacles.
I thought there were millions of homosexuals crying in their cocoa because they couldn’t get married.
And they have to truck in homosexuals from Ohio to push this in Kentucky?
I thought there were millions of them ready to tie the shoes behind the Porsche.
“[T]he Law of Nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other men’s actions must . . . be conformable to the Law of Nature, i.e., to the will of God. [L]aws human must be made according to the general laws of Nature, and without contradiction to any positive law of Scripture, otherwise they are ill made.”
— John Locke, Two Treatises on Government
“This natural law, being as old as mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, from this original.”
— William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law of England (1765)
I am not familiar with how the judge came to the contempt finding but I do agree that in our form of separation of powers the judiciary and the executive need to follow the laws as enacted only deviating for clemancy where allowed.
The legislator may rely upon natural law in designing and enacting new laws. That is where we stood at our founding.
Rather than resign, the Clerk has taken the position that “the free exercise thereof” is her reliable refuge. An admirable position. Our nation has done this mess, not one judge caught in the middle as much as the Clerk.
“When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.”
— Alexander Hamilton
“No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.” Hence we have the family, the “society” of a man’s house — a society very small, one must admit, but none the less a true society, and one older than any State. Consequently, it has rights and duties peculiar to itself which are quite independent of the State.”
— Leo XII Rerum Novarum, (12), MAY 15, 1891
“The instruments, by which [government] must act, are either the authority of the Laws or force. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; ... and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government, there is an end to liberty.”
—Alexander Hamilton