Kim Davis v Hypocrisy of King OBO

Go Ahead, Make ...

Go Ahead, Make …

Altogether after me, now – THERE IS NO SEPARATION of Church and State in the Constitution. First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; Let me repeat what we’ve discussed many times before in this forum, the phrase comes from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Danbury Baptist Association in January of 1802, in which he declared: I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

Jefferson’s letter must also be read in context of his declaration in the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom: “Almighty God hath created the mind free….” The “wall of separation” exists to affirm natural rights, including those of faith and religious worship. The “wall” does not imprison the free exercise of religion. Rather, Jefferson sought to prevent the domination of particular sects, making free the religious practices of all.

Therefore, in all the kerfuffle surrounding the innocence of Kim Davis, whose only “crime” was to uphold and fulfill her duties under the State Law of Kentucky, what has been more shockingly revealed, is the extent to which the current federal government and judiciary have overstepped their tyrannical bounds to put their proverbial boot around the necks of We The People. In the words of John Adams:
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.” 

Our country is now dominated by the amoral and the anti-religious. As John Adams so eloquently stated, our Constitution is proving wholly inadequate to the task of governing a people who see liberty as license, who put their sense of morality on a higher plane than Christianity, who celebrate lust as the highest of human emotions, who wallow in the filth and degradation that is much of modern media especially gangsta rap. The fear of the Founding Fathers was the tyranny of the majority. What was happened in fact during the 21st century, is the tyranny of the minority..

There's a shaking going on...

There’s a shaking going on…

If the Congress voted to legalize Sodomite Marriage, it would still be UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Article.1.Section.8 ENUMERATES the eighteen Powers of the Federal government under the Constitution. It does not grant the Congress, Executive or the Courts to legislate sodomy or lesbianism. It is just not there.

It would even be unconstitutional for the States to legalize Sodomite Marriage as a so-called “right,” as it infringes upon the Federal Protection of religious freedom. In essence, what this travesty of a Ruling accomplishes is what occurred prior to the Glorious Revolution in England 1688-89 where one had to be Anglican to hold Office or Military Posts. This creates two classes of citizens and by inference is a violation of our sovereign rights of “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

But the Democrat Party is the one with the Islamists and totalitarian Communists. Under the Lawrence Sodomy Case, Mr. Love can love his buddy with no “if, ands or butts?” (pun intended). He cannot constitutionally call it “Marriage” and he cannot force good Christians or simply people who demand the language not be bas-turd-ized (sarc) to validate or accept his perversion. This is not about Mr. Love’s love life. This is about totalitarian statists forcing things down people’s throats (sarc again). And lastly, if SCOTUS Roberts can rewrite ObamaCare as a Tax, apparently they are Nietzsche Supermen and not Judges at all – ‘Nuff said.

Anyway, enough of yours truly, and let us now segue` into Jack Cashill’s take on it all, in his piece from today’s American Thinker, “Free Kim Davis”…

284px-American_Thinker_logo“I’m glad the court sent a strong message that you have to follow the law,” said Timothy Love of Kentucky, one of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case that legalized gay marriage. The strong message that U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning was to send Kim Davis to prison.  Davis, the county clerk of Kentucky’s Rowan County, boldly refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple.

Love’s comment raises at least two interesting questions.  One is this: when did the left develop this affection for following the law?  Regarding drugs, immigration, debt repayment, occupying stuff, shutting down stuff, and even burning down stuff, progressives have proudly and openly defied the law and encouraged others to do the same.

Classify this sudden outbreak of good citizenship as routine leftist hypocrisy.

The second and more salient question is one that Davis herself has raised: “Under what law am I authorized to issue homosexual couples a marriage license?”

In a letter to his supporters, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee clarified the decision by Democrat Davis.  “The Supreme Court cannot and did not make a law,” said Huckabee.  “They only made a ruling on a law. Congress makes the laws. Because Congress has made no law allowing for same-sex marriage, Kim does not have the Constitutional authority to issue a marriage license to homosexual couples.”

In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton referred to the judiciary as the least dangerous branch of government.  He argued that under the Constitution, judges would possess “neither force nor will, but merely judgment.”  The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution further restrained the judgment of the federal judiciary.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” reads the amendment in unmistakably clear prose.  The Founding Fathers obviously made no provisions in the Constitution for same-sex marriage.  In fact, they made no provisions for marriage at all.  Laws on marriage age, eligibility, blood tests, witnesses, divorce, and the like were reserved to the states.

Black-Robed Executioners of 2015...

Black-Robed Executioners of 2015…

The impasse in Rowan County developed because the United States Supreme Court dramatically exceeded its mandate.  In Obergefell v. Hodges, the decision that legalized same-sex marriage, Judge Anthony Kennedy all but acknowledged as much.  “While the Constitution contemplates that democracy is the appropriate process for change,” he observed, “individuals who are harmed need not await legislative action before asserting a fundamental right.”

The Constitution does more than “contemplate.”  Article 5 spells out the process for amending the Constitution with commendable precision.  Given that the full-scale legalization of same-sex marriage would do something unprecedented – namely, undermine, even criminalize, the traditional practice of the nation’s dominant religion – a constitutional amendment would have seemed the way to go.  As bad as Roe v. Wade is, it did not make anyone do anything that violated his or her faith.

As I argue in my new book, Scarlet Letters: The Ever-Increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism, undermining faith is the driving impulse of the same-sex marriage movement.  The progressive activists pushing it have no real interest in gays and even less in marriage.  Their interest is in subverting the traditions that undergird America, none more consequential than Christianity.

In his greater wisdom, Kennedy cared not to know this.  He thought the gay marriage issue too urgent “to await further legislation, litigation, and debate.”  He worried about the “pain and humiliation” gay couples would suffer if denied a right that even President Obama opposed as recently as three years ago.

While running for president, in fact, Obama championed not only traditional marriage, but also the Constitution.  As he argued in Audacity of Hope, that august document “encouraged the very process of information gathering, analysis, and argument that allows us to make better, if not perfect, choices, not only about the means to our ends but also about the ends themselves.”

As to people of faith like Kim Davis concerned about “the ends themselves,” Kennedy told them not to worry.  “The First Amendment,” Kennedy wrote, “ensures that religions, those who adhere to religious doctrines, and others have protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths.”

Kim Davis standing her Constitutional ground...

Kim Davis standing her Constitutional ground…

A federal judge has sent Kim Davis to prison for sticking to the principles Kennedy promised to protect. However, since no relevant legislature has codified any sex marriage laws, no legislature has had the chance to codify any exceptions for people of faith.

So Judge Bunning did what the left and the media expected of him: he improvised by sending Davis to prison.

One would think, though, that if the Fourteenth Amendment safeguards gays from suffering the “pain and humiliation” of being denied marriage, the First Amendment should certainly protect practicing Christians, Muslims, and Jews from the pain and humiliation of being denied their very freedom.

“Further legislation, litigation, and debate” just might have sorted this all out.

 

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