Posted on 09/08/2015 10:49:23 AM PDT by pgyanke
There is a much bigger picture in Kentucky. Forget that Kim Davis is a Democrat. Forget that she is a Christian. Focus on the issue of government (court) coercion of individual conscience. For the first time in our history, the court will now form your conscience for you or you will be removed from government service.
The courts have given us a number of societal changes in recent decades from abortion to gays openly serving in the military. In each of these situations, though, what was changed was society's acceptance of a questionable practice. These things were now not illegal... but that was all. Dissenters could dissent and even actively campaign against the practices. Each had his own conscience.
This new ruling is different and falls on the heals of businesses being targeted by the gay lobby for reserving the right to refuse service to anyone... for any reason. We have gone beyond the acceptance of practices with which we might disagree to forced participation.
THAT is what is wrong with the current ruling of the court.
Prior to the ruling, homosexuals could marry... believe it or not. What they couldn't do is force anyone else to celebrate their nuptials. They and we were allowed our freedom of conscience to believe as we were taught. That wasn't enough for the gay lobby. Christians (and anyone else brave enough to dissent) had to be forced by government coercion to not only get over their old-fashioned notions but go even further in helping the advance of gay rights.
This isn't America.
The court could have simply said the government may not discriminate against homosexuals in legal and tax matters. Homosexual couples should be afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples. Fine. However, marriage is something different altogether. It is beyond the purview of the federal government (check the Constitution, you won't find it), and is only mentioned as an institution in state constitutions and local laws. This is right and just IAW the 9th and 10th Amendments. Marriage has a meaning and a purpose that has been unchanged for millennia. Until now. It won't be enough for the societal architects until you are forced to agree.
Since towelheads aren’t held to the same standards as normal people, her jailing was an illegal act of a repressive fascist.
I prefer the term, diaper-heads, or Mo-ham-heads.
Davis is a Christian and a democrat? I wonder how she reconciles that.
The states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay “marriage.” So what pro-gay activist justices did was to legalize gay marriage from the bench, effectively stealing unique, 10th Amendment-protected state power to regulate marriage to do so.
Activist justices got away with doing this because they know that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate is not going to do its job to protect the States, as the Founding States had intended for the Senate to do, in this case by working with the House to impeach and remove such justices from the bench.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators and the activist justices that they confirm and then refuse to remove from the bench as well.
The Bamster and Lurch wouldn't have thought of submitting the Iranian “deal” either.
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