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Agreed. Civil disobedience is easily the most difficult form of speech to understand and justify, especially by a government official.
When MLK committed acts of CD he did so with the express intent of being arrested for breaking the law. The law was changed in part because patriots disagreed with it and were willing to be punished by the enforcement of an unjust law.
This is precisely what we are facing today with Mrs. Kelly.
As an increasing number of committed Christians are willing to violate the SC’s edict and go to jail there will be increased pressure to change this horrible SC decision.

I dare say Trump has never been pressured to break an unjust law as a matter of principle for which he was prepared to accept the consequences. He may well not understand the issue at all. Clearly Cruz does.

My respects for a fine response. Perhaps you are an old veteran of Operation Rescue in the 80s and 90s, as am I.The objective of our clinic blockades ,then, was to save even a single unborn child;s life from abortion.Although we always risked arrest and practically always were, that was not our prime objective. The consequences that followed from the mass arrests did achieve penetration into the public awareness of this profound moral issue of child murder in the womb. There was required then, as is today, great sacrifices made; in terms of family, jobs, jail, and even physical injury. This has been and always will be required of a free people who wish to remain free. Free to obey their conscience,free to speak, and as Americans, free to shape their political destiny as endowed by our Creator to do so. Our Constitution was informed by and dedicated to God. The magistrate , even a humble clerk elected by the people, must call good what God calls good, and evil what God calls evil. The young woman in jail now is a prisoner of conscience, for resisting the twisted meaning in law that evil men and women
have wrung from our Constitution. Disobedience is the predictable behavior of people of Faith, when government reaches beyond it's authority and claims that which belongs to God. Much will be required of us to remain free Americans in the near future. This brave woman decided to become one of many to pay that price. As we ourselves consider the cost let us remember those who have gone before us who found the Faith and courage to do so,