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Supporters to Stage “I’m with Kim” Rally at Jail [Grayson, KY]
Liberty Counsel ^ | September 4, 2015 | lc.org

Posted on 09/04/2015 8:00:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Grayson, KY – Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, will join supporters at a rally outside the Carter County Detention Center on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. ET.  The “I’m with Kim” Rally is organized by Gov. Mike Huckabee. Liberty Counsel is willing to join any group that stands in support of Kim Davis.

“Not long ago 75 percent of Kentuckians passed the state’s marriage amendment. Today a Christian is imprisoned for believing what the voters affirmed, that marriage is between a man and a woman,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Five people on the Supreme Court imposed their will on 320 million Americans and unleashed a torrent of assaults against people of faith. Kim Davis is the first victim of this tragedy.”

“I visited with Kim today, and she is good spirits,” Staver said. “I went to the jail to encourage her, but she encouraged me! Her opening and closing comment was, “All is well!”

“Kim Davis supporters have been calling, emailing, and using social media to ask, ‘What can I do to help Kim?’” Staver said. “I have already heard from pastors who are sending buses of supporters to the rally on Tuesday. If you are near Kentucky, here is a great opportunity to stand against judicial tyranny and the unlawful imprisonment of Kim. Join us on Tuesday, September 8, at 3:00 p.m.!”

                                       Tues., Sept. 8, 2015 at 3:00 PM ET

                                       Carter County Detention Center

                                       13 Crossbar Road, Grayson, KY

Liberty Counsel is an international nonprofit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989, by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topics.


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To: Jim Robinson; JustAmy; LUV W; Windflier

Standing with Kim


101 posted on 09/05/2015 11:29:53 AM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless America And Our Troops)
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To: LucyT

Kentucky Revised Statutes
KRS Chapter 402

402.005 Definition of marriage.

As used and recognized in the law of the Commonwealth, "marriage" refers only to the civil status, condition, or relation of one (1) man and one (1) woman united in law for life, for the discharge to each other and the community of the duties legally incumbent upon those whose association is founded on the distinction of sex.

402.045 Same-sex marriage in another jurisdiction void and unenforceable.

402.240 County judge/executive to issue license in absence of clerk.

In the absence of the county clerk, or during a vacancy in the office, the county judge/executive may issue the license and, in so doing, he shall perform the duties and incur all the responsibilities of the clerk. The county judge/executive shall return a memorandum thereof to the clerk, and the memorandum shall be recorded as if the license had been issued by the clerk.

402.990 Penalties.

(3) Any authorized person who knowingly solemnizes a marriage prohibited by this chapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(6) Any clerk who knowingly issues a marriage license to any persons prohibited by this chapter from marrying shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and removed from office by the judgment of the court in which he is convicted.

(7) Any clerk who knowingly issues a marriage license in violation of his duty under this chapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(8) If any deputy clerk or any person other than a county clerk knowingly issues a marriage license in violation of this chapter, but not for a prohibited marriage, he shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, and if he knowingly issues a license for a marriage prohibited by this chapter, he shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
102 posted on 09/05/2015 1:48:26 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: TWhiteBear

Live here in Fruita Colorado -daily prayers for Kim Davis and her people.Will be passing on to all that I will be on my face Tuesday in prayer for this rally.—for Kim Davis— for KY(love the people I met there) and for the US of A


103 posted on 09/05/2015 4:56:14 PM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: JustAmy

Am already committed to be in northeast Georgia on Wednesday and don’t think I could make it back from Kentucky in time. Will try to make the next rally.


104 posted on 09/05/2015 5:03:47 PM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: caww

Recall reading how he said in earlier judgement of Kim Davis -that the whole system will fail unless we “respect” the supreme Court decisions.
I sent a letter to him saying I respect such when I can reconcile their opinion to the written Constitution Judges in every State are constitutionally bound by (Article VI)
The Constitution is to our system of Govt. what the bible ought be to all Christians. Sadly a goodly number of both camps tend to think they know better than what is written.


105 posted on 09/05/2015 5:14:03 PM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: StonyBurk

....”Sadly a goodly number of both camps tend to think they know better than what is written”.....

Our Government doesn’t care one iotta of the Constitution or the regulations regarding accountability...there is none... because it’s all been “taken over”...and not in the best interests of this nation at all....and the bible to them is just another book.

This is what Cruz has been fighting ‘in’ Washington and why the left ‘and’ right use whatever means they can to shut him up... and down....he’s exposing them....and they know it...

‘Congress’ isn’t governing according to the constitution...neither are the courts...there is no accountability because they’re all playing their treacherous game together against this nation and it’s people except for a very precious few....it’s heartbreaking when you see some of the guts of this coup.

But good you wrote........

My Senators always give a political dialogue of their positions and why they have them...they never address what I inquire of....typical .


106 posted on 09/05/2015 5:32:53 PM PDT by caww
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To: Yosemitest

Bump!


107 posted on 09/05/2015 7:38:29 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Jim Robinson

Can’t be there in person. Be there in spirit.


108 posted on 09/05/2015 7:42:26 PM PDT by M1911A1 (My red line is Jeb Bush.)
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To: PGalt

Mark post 73


109 posted on 09/05/2015 7:51:36 PM PDT by sport
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To: loveliberty2; All

Thank you (not aware of this history), loveliberty2. Great post in a great thread of posts.


110 posted on 09/05/2015 8:54:14 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: mississippi red-neck

Well said and sadly true. He put her in for contempt of court. They all exceed their authority. But our silence gives consent, the silent majority has become the silent enablers.


111 posted on 09/05/2015 10:17:14 PM PDT by chit*chat
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To: Jim Robinson
Posted to my FB. Have been posting all the stories.

What are they going to do with the 30 judges who refuse to do the same thing? Jail them too?

Time for REAL PREACHERS TO STAND UP FOR JESUS!


112 posted on 09/06/2015 7:26:58 AM PDT by GailA (If You don't keep your Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: Aquamarine

Thanks, Aqua.

Hope they get a huge turnout. We need to start showing this overreaching government that we are unhappy.


113 posted on 09/06/2015 12:47:54 PM PDT by JustAmy (Take a Cruz from Texas to DC!)
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To: JustAmy
That's true. David Barton tells how the government is overreaching.

"Perhaps the single most important issue in the Kim Davis situation (the County Clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who was jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses) -- an issue about which most observers and commentators have been completely silent -- is the flagrant violation of the constitutionally-mandated separation of powers.

By way of background, Federal Judge David Bunning ruled that Davis was in contempt of court, which a court can legitimately do. But he then ordered federal marshals enforce his decision and take her into custody, which he cannot do. Federal marshals are part of the Executive Branch, not the Judicial Branch; he has absolutely no authority to order any federal marshal to do anything.

Significantly, the Founders -- and thus the Constitution -- did not give power to the Judiciary to enforce any of its decisions -- they deliberately made it powerless in this regards. They made the Executive Branch alone responsible for enforcement.

So while Judge Bunning can (and did) issue his personal opinion regarding Kim Davis, his personal opinion does not have the force of law. (By the way, check any civics book: a law must originate as a measure proposed in the House or Senate, be passed by both, and then signed by the president. Only then and by this means does anything become law.) Bunning must thus ask (not order) the Executive Branch to enforce his opinion, and if it agrees, it can order its marshals to do so, but the Judicial Branch may order no such thing.

Sadly, not only did the Judicial Branch first take on itself the role of the Legislative Branch by issuing its ruling in the homosexual-marriage decision, but now it has assumed the role of the Executive Branch by attempting to enforce its own opinion. The Founding Fathers vehemently objected to this practice. As George Washington warned: "[T]hose entrusted with its [the nation’s] administration [must] confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism."

James Madison similarly charged: "The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be universally maintained but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves."

Samuel Adams agreed: "In all good governments, the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary powers are confined within the limits of their respective departments. If therefore it should be found that . . . either of the departments aforesaid should interfere with another, it will, if continued, essentially alter the Constitution, and may, in time, . . . be productive of such convulsions as may shake the political ground upon which we now happily stand."

Thomas Jefferson thus admonished that we must "cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [i.e., the Constitution] has established" and that if we ever move away from its separation of powers that "we shall be in danger of foundering."

Perhaps political philosopher Charles de Montesquieu -- a favorite of the Founders, and the most-cited human source in the political writings of the Founding Era -- said it best when he declared: "There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers."

So while the Kim Davis travesty continues, perhaps the most dangerous aspect of the entire controversy is that Judge Bunning personally ordered her to jail, thus blatantly violating one of the Constitution's most important provisions for securing the liberty of the entire people".

DB

114 posted on 09/06/2015 4:35:01 PM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Thanks for the ping
Here's a Bttt
115 posted on 09/06/2015 5:19:43 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Publius

Thanks for the ping. Are Government issued marriage licenses even a necessary thing? Why should the Government have any say over whether a couple gets married anyway?

Why should couples have to ask the Government’s permission? In some states, if the couples just shack up together long enough the Government declares them a “Common Law” marriage, and those people don’t ask the Government’s permission to live together.

Marriage is a religious institution, so just ignore the Government, and let each religion determine how things are going to be done. The preacher performs the ceremony, and forget about the Government.


116 posted on 09/11/2015 2:39:26 AM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: Jim Robinson

This needs to be approached on a Constitutional basis. That Supreme Court decision on homosexuals marriages was in itself unconstitutional and needs to be nullified. States need to start nullifYing SCOTUS decisions and we need a convention of the states to defend this 9 headed monstrosity.


117 posted on 09/13/2015 5:56:21 AM PDT by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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