Loving your quotes! I am peppering a Facebook post with them. :)
The First Amendment/Religious Liberty angle on the situation in KY with County Clerk Kim Davis is a bit of an out for Republican “conservative” politicians.
They’re almost all judicial supremacists, so they think the courts actually have the authority to dictate, even if those dictates violate the laws of nature and nature’s God, or the supreme law of out land, the Constitution. They have no problem with having a judicial oligarchy rule over us. They just want it to be a benign dictatorship, one that agrees with them, or at least is tolerant of them. So, instead of saying what they should, that Kim Davis is acting completely lawfully, according to her oath to support and defend the Constitutions and laws of her state and the nation, and that the federal judge is acting lawlessly, beyond his legitimate authority, they’re trying to force the courts into a corner, by making this all about one person’s religious beliefs, so that the all-powerful court will do what they want.
It is about her religious beliefs, certainly, but not primarily. Primarily, this is about the laws of nature and nature’s God, and the constitutionally-legitimate functions of the various parts of our government.
To have a system of checks and balances such as the founders intended when they wrote and ratified our Constitutions, there must come a time when lawless judges, who reject the only true basis for justice and the rule of law, are politely, but firmly, told NO. And that time, more than ever before, is NOW.