Posted on 09/07/2015 11:02:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For the first time in American history a woman has been imprisoned by the government for merely exercising her Christian faith. War has been declared on Christ and His followers.
And there’s no turning back.
Anti-Christian persecution is the civil rights cause of our time. The cultural Marxists in power have seceded from our constitutional republican form of government, with its Judeo-Christian moorings, and have supplanted, in its place, a secular-socialist oligarchy. Like Union troops hunkered at Fort Sumter, faithful Christians are now exiles in our own land. Anti-Christian “progressives” have demanded unconditional surrender, and federal Judge David Bunning has fired the first mortar.
Even as I write, a kind, soft-spoken and well respected civil servant of 27 years sits languishing, like some violent criminal, in a Kentucky prison. She is confined, indefinitely and without benefit of a trial, to a tiny cell. She is a political prisoner in a spiritual war. Like so many accidental civil-rights heroes that came before her, Davis, a Democrat who was overwhelmingly elected as Rowan County clerk, has peacefully and graciously refused to violate her Christian conscience. She has declined to sign her name to marriage certificates that defy God’s natural design for the timeless institution and has requested, as a simple accommodation, that either her name be removed from the marriage licenses, thus eliminating her personalized acquiescence to the Supreme Court’s novel attempt to usurp God’s authority and redefine this cornerstone institution, or, alternatively, “to allow licenses to be issued by the chief executive of Rowan County or [by] developing a statewide, online marriage license process.”
That’s it. Simple, reasonable and fair. Our nation has a rich history of respecting the rights of conscientious objectors, and Kim Davis, like tens-of-millions of her brothers and sisters in Christ, is exactly that.
“There is absolutely no reason that this case has gone so far without reasonable people respecting and accommodating Kim Davis’ First Amendment rights,” said Mat Staver, Davis’ attorney and head of Liberty Counsel, a Christian civil rights organization.
“This is a heaven or hell issue for me and for every other Christian that believes,” Davis said on Thursday. “This is a fight worth fighting. … I’ve weighed the cost and I’m prepared to go to jail.”
And so she has.
Reasonable people can disagree on the propriety of Kim’s actions. Some say that she was right in refusing to violate her conscience by signing her name to a legal document that presumes to solemnize that which God condemns. Still others say that she needs to either “do her job” or resign – that she took an oath and is violating that oath.
Nevertheless, all reasonable people must agree that imprisoning this innocent woman for her conscience is both an absolute outrage and gross violation of her constitutional liberties. Even the ACLU thought it was a bridge too far. The fact remains that people don’t shed their First Amendment rights when they become government employees. Kim Davis swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution, the Kentucky Constitution and the laws of the Bluegrass state. When she took her oath, United States law, the Kentucky Constitution and the Kentucky Revised Statutes all reflected the millennia-old definition of natural marriage: “Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Kentucky.”
The Kentucky Legislature has yet to change this law one jot or tittle. Instead, five left-wing extremist lawyers in Washington, D.C., issued an opinion presuming to move the goalposts mid-game. Court opinions are not “the law of the land.” Judges don’t make laws – only the legislature can do that. Kim Davis is not defying the law; she is upholding it as codified.
Accordingly, she has repeatedly asked, “Under what law am I authorized to issue homosexual couples a marriage license?”
Neither Judge Bunning nor anyone else can answer.
Because no such law exists.
In a statement on Friday, Mat Staver made the same point: “Not long ago 75 percent of Kentuckians passed the state’s marriage amendment. Today a Christian is imprisoned for believing what the voters affirmed: marriage is between a man and a woman. 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.”
Indeed, many scoffed at our warnings that Christians will someday be forced to either endorse “gay marriage” or go to jail. Well, scoff no more. That day has arrived. In just two months since the high court’s disgraceful Obergefell v. Hodges opinion, the full-on criminalization of Christianity has begun. You must either bow a knee before the false gods of same-sex “marriage” and “gay rights,” or face the fiery “contempt of court” furnace. We have moved from anecdotal instances of anti-Christian discrimination to systemic religious persecution.
Here’s the formula: 1) Force affirmation of homosexual behavior, abortion or some other institutionalized sin via judicial fiat; 2) Christian objects, refuses to disobey God and requests a reasonable religious accommodation; 3) Accommodation is denied and Christian is jailed for “contempt of court.”
You’re going to hear that term a lot in coming days, weeks, months and years – “contempt of court.” It’s the straw man charge that will be utilized to imprison not just Christian public officials, but others as well. Christian business owners, lawyers, private sector employees, parents of school-age children who don’t want their children indoctrinated by sexual anarchist propaganda and many others will be held in contempt of court, denied due process and incarcerated indefinitely.
The persecution isn’t coming.
The persecution has arrived.
And that’s what it means to be a Christ follower.
So pray for a million more like Kim Davis.
Become like Kim Davis.
Is she perfect? Certainly not. None of us is. Indeed, before Kim’s transformational Christian re-birth four years ago, she was thrice divorced and “played in the devil’s playground” for much of her life.
She was lost.
But now she’s found.
God has an amazing way of taking empty, broken vessels, rebuilding their lives and then using them mightily for His glory and honor.
Stand, like Kim, fearlessly, lovingly and boldly for Christ, declaring, as did the apostles when faced with a similar decision, “We must obey God rather than any human authority” (see Acts 5:29).
Indeed, as the Bible’s Daniel, a “public official,” boldly refused to disobey God and commit sin by worshiping a pagan king, so too has Kim Davis honored our Lord by refusing to bow before a pagan court – by refusing to call evil good and good evil.
They wanted to make an example of her.
Instead, they made a martyr of her.
And awakened a sleeping giant in the process.
Yes and about 36 Republican Governors invoking the 10th Ammendment.
Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Constitutional_Amendment_1
Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1[1] of 2004, is an amendment to the Kentucky Constitution that makes it unconstitutional for the state to recognize or perform same-sex marriages or civil unions. The referendum was approved by 75% of the voters.[2]
The text of the amendment states:
“Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Kentucky. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized.”[3]
Is the population explosion so out of control that the government is willing to put people in jail simply if they don’t support the non-child producing pedophiles who wish they had their own to molest in order to curb the world population? Really?
and I have a gun
Yet the will of five blackrobes from Yale and Harvard law school can override a simple declaration in support of God's Laws?
Scotus was supposed to be supreme only among federal courts. It is long past time to take these rogues down.
We need a million to go free Kim Davis.
She has been in jail for a week. There are no marches in the streets. The “justice” department is happy.
The country is in deep $h!t. This woman is only the first. Plus, there are thousands more who have bowed down in abject submission and have complied with the wishes of the fascist dictatorship.
Exactly right. Not only that, but most people who hear about her plight are JOYFUL that a Christian is being punished. That is America now. Plain and simple.
Once ‘Brobama’ let’s ISIS the US jail will be the least of Christians worries.
If they can get away with this, just wait till they do it on a larger scale.
And they will try, mark my word.
It is WAY past time to start mass civil unrest. These people have to go. By whatever means necessary.
She was just following state law.
The tragedy isn’t that she is being punished for standing her ground, but that out of how many thousands in her position she is the only one.
As a born Catholic, 4 marriages? sorry
Exactly this.
Maybe I’m a pessimist, but it sure feels like the good guys have lost this battle.
RE: As a born Catholic, 4 marriages? sorry
I believe she’s sorry too. She was not a true believer during those times and only became a convert (in her words, a borb-again Christian ) four years ago.
As a born Catholic, 4 marriages? sorry
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Yep she’s a case so to speak. Supposedly she had a religious awakening in 2011
joining an Apostolic Church, a Pentecostal Christian denomination.
Ya mean like those Sunday morning Christian folks that screw me over come Monday
Sorry, religion is an everyday 24/7 thing. Oh that’s right, she just got “saved.” Yea ok
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