Posted on 09/07/2015 10:45:29 AM PDT by jazusamo
When the Supreme Court ruled by the narrowest possible margin that Kentucky's definition of marriage is unconstitutional, the court's decision was qualified by its assurance that religious freedom would not be jeopardized. "The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection," the court solemnly intoned on June 26.
In the Appalachian hills of eastern Kentucky, one brave woman is testing whether Justice Anthony Kennedy really meant it when he wrote those words. But the local federal judge for eastern Kentucky, David Bunning, has wrongly sent Kim Davis to jail for her beliefs, without respecting or accommodating her sincere Christian beliefs.
Local officials are required to support the laws of the United States, but no federal law requires every county official to issue marriage licenses, which are available in many other offices throughout Kentucky. Even Bunning admitted that "plaintiffs have one feasible avenue for obtaining their marriage licenses" by traveling to another county, so the Supreme Court's marriage ruling was not violated by the clerk's decision to suspend all licenses while she seeks accommodation under the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Bunning previously came to national attention when he required the students and staff of the public schools in neighboring Boyd County to attend mandatory diversity training, "a significant portion of which would be devoted to issues of sexual orientation and gender harassment." Bunning, who also ruled against a law banning partial-birth abortion, was nominated for his lifetime job at the age of 34 and was confirmed because his father was a senator, despite having inadequate legal experience and an "unqualified" rating from the American Bar Association.
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Everything the Marxists on SCOTUS did was intentional—to throw out the Constitution of the US, and establish Rule of Oligarchy (what Jefferson feared).
Kennedy is irrationally forcing Satanism on a population—destroying the meaning of Words (Marxist and unconstitutional)—that “love” is that desire to want to sodomize others or “Marriage” can be a union of two males sodomizing each other. It defies Reason/Science and Natural Laws and is pure Satanic and never belongs in a Western “Justice” (virtue) System, where sodomy is (rightly so) a vice.
Kennedy is forcing Marxism and Satanism on our culture-—both religions/faiths and it is antithetical to the Constitution of the USA (unconstitutional).
These SCOTUS 5 need to be put in prison for Treason.
Kentucky state police should go get her out of jail, but they are a deceived bumch of mamby pambys. Ever since the civil war Americans think the Federal government is sovereign over the states when the Constitution states otherwise
“Ever since the civil war Americans think the Federal government is sovereign over the states when the Constitution states otherwise.”
Compliments of Mr. Lincoln. By the way, researchers have crunched the numbers, and now they say it was closer to 750,000 killed on both sides, instead of the 620,000 number.
don’t tell me that this is Jim Bunning’s son. if so johnnie calison needs to go out and punch his face in.
Yep, I’m afraid so.
> It looks like the Supreme Court majority was so devoid of any analytic thought
From Obergefell:
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”
Have you ever heard such mush?
By the way, the Constitution does not grant rights.
Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan have brought disrepute on the court. They should be impeached.
Thanks for posting that. I hadn’t read it. What a lot of emotionally mired lies.
“Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness”.
If they are lonely, it is not because they were denied marriage. That’s a clear fallacy of debate and should have been called out.
All we want to deny them is the sanction of marriage that is defined by its possibility to procreate and raise children. We want to deny that to two people who were created to be resounding and irrevocably sterile with each other. They have redundant sex organs. If God had wanted them to be married, He would have given them two sets of fully functional organ systems. He didn’t. Or, if some people prefer, they didn’t “evolve” that way. Even Nature is sending a clear message that marriage under such circumstances is a farce.
They can live together their whole lives if they want and have a civil union in some cases. Fine. Just no marriage because of the natural progression to parenthood. They should not raise kids. They screw them up.
That whole court case reeks of ulterior motive and the activist supreme court jesters were quick to take advantage of the path it opened for them.
Someone should lock up Judge Bunning with no food, water, or Playgirl magazines until he frees the clerk.
Thanks for your post. Have there been any other amendments on the subject, since 2004?
Do you mean amendments to the Kentucky amendment on marriage?
Yes.
Plus the left is saying it’s not legal because of SCOTUS ruling on same-sex “marriage.”
Have no idea.
Truth29: “How so? She is still in jail.”
In less than a week, Bunning backed off, that's how.
She is complying with the court order to not interfere and most of her staff is issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals. The left wins and she is hobbled: http://www.wdrb.com/story/30022939/kim-davis-no-same-sex-marriage-licenses-will-be-issued-under-her-authority
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