Posted on 09/05/2015 6:30:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What Kim Davis did was troubling. What Ted Cruz did was downright alarming.
Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky, refused to issue marriage certificates to gay couples. She said she was operating “under God’s authority,” but she now sits in jail for ignoring federal authority.
Davis, at least, is facing the consequences of her actions. Not so Cruz, senator from Texas and Republican presidential candidate.
“Today, judicial lawlessness crossed into judicial tyranny,” he said. “Today, for the first time ever, the government arrested a Christian woman for living according to her faith. . . . I stand with Kim Davis. Unequivocally.”
Tyranny? Our system of government gives the Supreme Court final say over constitutional matters, and, though Cruz doesn’t like it, the court ordered states to recognize same-sex marriages. In fact, the high court specifically declined to give relief to Davis, and the federal judge who ordered her jailed for contempt of court is a George W. Bush appointee and son of a former Republican senator.
Now Cruz, who took an oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution,” wants people to defy the Supreme Court’s authority? Who is the lawless one?
Cruz isn’t the only Republican candidate seeking the nation’s highest office while encouraging people to ignore its laws. Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, declared: “I thank God for Kim Davis, and I hope more Americans will stand with her.”
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, too, supported Davis, and Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) called her jailing “absurd” and said stands such as Davis’s are “an important part of the American way.” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said that “you have the freedom to practice religious beliefs out there. It’s a fundamental right.”
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The ginned-up “law” of an entity that was never charged with making law, only with answering questions about it.
Or looking at it another way, if the author really believes that, he’s five lawyers away from a world of hurt.
Really, guess none of them have heard of Dred Scott v. Sandford.
“Tyranny? Our system of government gives the Supreme Court final say over constitutional matters, and, though Cruz doesn’t like it, the court ordered states to recognize same-sex marriages. In fact, the high court specifically declined to give relief to Davis, and the federal judge who ordered her jailed for contempt of court is a George W. Bush appointee and son of a former Republican senator. “
Congress has made no law on gay marriage
“Tyranny? Our system of government gives the Supreme Court final say over constitutional matters, and, though Cruz doesn’t like it, the court ordered states to recognize same-sex marriages. In fact, the high court specifically declined to give relief to Davis, and the federal judge who ordered her jailed for contempt of court is a George W. Bush appointee and son of a former Republican senator. “
Congress has made no law on gay marriage
I think the founders would throw a fit, or more likely another revolution, if they saw headlines proclaiming that the Supreme Court had ‘legalized” this or that or the other thing, when they quite emphatically ceded no such authority to the judiciary. And that’s just the process side of things. If they saw the abominable, immoral, daily slaughter of little babies, or sodomites pretending to be “married,” they would become warlike quite quickly, I think. And they would be devastated that their posterity could have turned out to be so wicked and stupid.
“The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.”
— George Washington, 1789
Nothing more than the usual hypocrisy from the usual hypocrites.
And in fact that same crowd will never let you hear the end of the folly that was chattel slavery baked into the original Constitution (oh we know... it was those dastardly Christians who wished it in there... surely those noble Muslims would have never wanted it... barfffff).
And Cruz has a great point, why the sudden care here for the niceties of law.
Prohibition?
You might want to rethink that.
We the People.
And God.
If only the supreme court has the ‘final say’ over constitutional matters, then our republican constitutional form of government with checks and balances has been completely overthrown. The oaths of the officers of the other branches and levels of government have become a cruel, deceptive charade.
If only the supreme court has the ‘final say’ over constitutional matters, then our republican constitutional form of government with checks and balances has been completely overthrown. The oaths of the officers of the other branches and levels of government have become a cruel, deceptive charade.
You won’t find a bigger hypocrite about obeying the law than Milbank. Obama can run the most lawless regime in American history, and Milbank will totally ignore Obama’s lawlessness. But some clerk who obeys her religious beliefs is condemned to prison by the likes of Milbank.
Exactly.
Forces of hate have also done a pretty fair job of hounding the gospel to behind church doors.
Before ANY methods of order can begin to speak in their proper context, the love of God needs to be present and shared openly. Stifling this is the devil’s game, because then we can be as religious or even “biblical” as we want and yet achieve nothing.
Laziness is, I submit, a chief factor that has gotten America into bowling such a gutterball. A “let George do it” people will find that George is a monster.
Really, just look at all the road blocks Washington DC used after losing District of Columbia v. Heller.
And which City of Washington DC official was jailed?
If that's the case why are blacks no longer considered property?
No Kim Davis was operating under the laws of the State of KY which do not allow same sex marriage. To date those laws have not been changed by the KY legislature. She was also operating under the 10th Amendment which allows a state to nullify unconstitutional Federal laws.
The 5 activist lawyers in black robes who re-wrote the Constitution to force same sex marriage on 50 sovereign states are the bad actors in this melodrama.
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