He went there.
Combined PING! and DANG!
Posted on 10/29/2015 10:34:54 AM PDT by wagglebee
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, October 29, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy told a Harvard Law School audience that government employees with religious convictions about marriage should resign.
The Ronald Reagan appointee said on Wednesday that if a public official has a moral objection to homosexuality, he must either follow the law or quit public service.
The judge's comment came in answer to a question a student asked about government officials who disagree with the Supreme Court's decisions on gay marriage, or abortion, and if those citizens have the constitutional right to act according to their sincerely held moral beliefs.
Kennedy replied that no, they do not have the right to refuse to comply with the law.
Curiously, Kennedy cited as buttressing his point the fact that few judges resigned under the Third Reich. "How many judges, do you think, resigned in the Third Reich?" Kennedy asked, to the response of silence in the great hall. He answered his own question by raising three fingers.
At one point, his words made quitting sound noble: "Great respect, it seems to me, has to be given to people who resign rather than do something they view as morally wrong, in order to make a point."
The justice admitted that Christians who must "enforce a law that they believe is morally corrupt" face "difficult moral questions." "However," he said, "the rule of law is that, as a public official, in performing your legal duties, you are bound to enforce the law."
Responses from Christian leaders noted the irony of saying that for public employees, the moral thing to do is follow immorality. Kennedy made no mention of religious convictions as actual, universal truths.
Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver commented to LifeSiteNews, "Unjust laws should be resisted." "The history of the United States includes non-compliance, even by presidents, to immoral laws."
Staver told LifeSiteNews, "Religious freedom and conscience should be protected." In fact, Staver said, morality requires the reverse of what Kennedy advocated. "Justices or judges who disregard the Constitution and impose their own will should resign."
Gay activists were quick to applaud. The online journal The New Civil Rights Movement reported that Justice Kennedy "left no wiggle room for the 'religious accommodation' the renegade Kentucky clerks are demanding for themselves."
Where exactly is that in our Constitution?
Those moslem truck drivers should resign too!
Sounds like Kennedy just compared the New Unified State of America to Nazi Germany, doesn’t it?
He did. He also said which side he's on.
So basically he is saying we are under a “hitler”.
he must either follow the law
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponents Argument
Noting that Justice Kennedy attended Harvard Law School, what are they indoctrinating the students with at that school? It certaintly is not the Founding States division of federal and state government powers as the Founders had intended for that division to be understood.
Pro-gay marriage activist justices like Kennedy are wrongly ignoring 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty. More specifically, since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay marriage, the corrupt Supreme Court actually had no constitutionally enumerated gay marriage protections to throw at the states through the 14th Amendment (14A).
In fact, the congressional record shows that John Bingham, the main author of Secton 1 of 14A, had clarified that 14A applies only those rights which the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect to the states.
Mr. Speaker, this House may safely follow the example of the makers of the Constitution and the builders of the Republic, by passing laws for enforcing all the privileges and immunities of the United States as guaranteed by the amended Constitution and expressly enumerated in the Constitution [emphasis added].John Bingham, Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 1st Session. (See lower half of third column.)
Note that activist justices had likewise wrongly legislated the fictitious constitutional right to have an abortion from the bench, imo, the states having never amended the Constitution to expressly protect having an abortion as a right.
But whats arguably even worse than activist justices legislating perverted rights from the bench is the following. Regardless that the Founding States had established the Senate in part to protect the states from unconstitutional actions by the federal government, the corrupt, post-17th Amendment Senate has not been doing its job to protect the states.
In this example, the reason that activist justices have the confidence to legislate rights from the bench is because they know that the corrupt RINO-controlled Senate is probably not going to lift a finger to work with the corrupt RINO-controlled House to impeach and remove them from the bench.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who confirm activist justices and then refuse to remove such justices from the bench when they blatantly ignore 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty along with it.
The power to make law does not lie with the judicial branch of our government.
He went there.
Combined PING! and DANG!
I guess every German citizen and official should have “followed the law” and turned in every hiding Jew or their hosts as well, according to Kennedeski.
The one time I agree with this bozo: an indirect comparison between Hitler and Obama is entirely appropriate.
So according to this “justice” (sic!!) , Chrietians in USA should be treated no better than Christisns were in Nazi Germany. Says a lot about “justice” Kennedy, doesn’t it? (Recalling, too, that hitler wanted to get rid of Christian faith, which he despised, and was already rounding up believing christians for his slaughter factories when the war ended )
Justice Kennedy, there is no rule of law in the United States, the exception being when it fits the agenda of corrupt elected officials.
One would then think that Lincoln should have resigned in the face of the dred Scott decision. He just doesn’t want people to resist unjust and unlawful Supreme Court decisions.
This ‘resign’ meme is the newest evil among liberal elite assh*les like U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Liberal elites in DC AND on the Court should resign when a Republican is elected President.
They can do it as a protest... and millions of us will be jumping with joy that the little lowlifes are QUITTING government.
Hey Anthony Kennedy - REPUBLICANS HAVE control of the House and Senate... MAYBE YOU SHOULD RESIGN... QUIT IN PROTEST. Show us what you’re made of... be first.
Kennedy is blind. This is about resisting evil.
evil wins when good men do nothing.
kennedy is advocating evil by encouraging the act of nothing.
THE GATES OF HELL CANNOT PREVAIL AGAINST THE CHURCH OF GOD. STAND UP CHURCH, STAND.
I thought religious tests for public office were unconstitutional? Why is reasonable accommodation not found for Christians? I’m sure there are plenty of other clerks who will register fake “marriages”. I’m sure accommodation would be found for a Muslim clerk.
How many Supreme Court Justices should quickly after the next election retire?
Three fingers up. We know who they should be.
This is true, whether it is a Christian pharmacist at a federal clinic who refuses to give out abortion pills, or Muslim truck drivers who refuse to deliver alcohol.
Seems to me he is comparing Obama et al. to Hitler, then??
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