Posted on 09/01/2015 12:47:47 PM PDT by Whenifhow
There comes a time in every person’s life where they have to decide what they stand for and what they believe in. What is the line that you just won’t cross, no matter the consequence? Many people never consider that question until they are forced to. For Christians, it is an easy choice. They answer to a higher power than the government or the courts. For Kim Davis, that day came a while back when she was asked to issue marriage licenses for gay couples. The Supreme Court just recently trashed the Constitution and in a move that violated First Amendment freedom of religion, they gave gay couples the right to marry and mandated that all observe that as the law of the land. Kim Davis said firmly, “I will not comply.” Then she stood her ground amid death threats through email, phone calls and social media. She also faces the very real possibility of financial penalties and imprisonment. People are also threatening to burn down her home and rape her on her front lawn. All because she won’t violate her Christian beliefs.
As a County Clerk, Kim Davis has now stated she will continue to deny marriage licenses to gay couples. She says she’s doing so “under God’s authority.” She came out of her office this morning after several gay couples were denied marriage licenses. She asked David Moore and David Ermold, who’ve been rejected four times, to leave. They refused, surrounded by reporters and cameras. There was a tense confrontation while the media gobbled it up.
Ermold said: “We’re not leaving until we have a license.” Davis responded: “Then you’re going to have a long day.”
There was a group in the back of the room cheering Davis on shouting, “Praise the Lord!” and “Stand your ground!” Others screeched that Davis is a bigot and told her: “Do your job!” “The Supreme Court denied your stay,” one of the men told Davis. “I pay your salary! I pay you to discriminate against me right now.” Then they dared her to call the police on them.
I understand the police eventually removed everyone and Kim retired to her office and closed the blinds. This must break her heart. The media made a big deal of the gay couples being teary and red-eyed. They also claimed to be shaking. What manipulative wusses. “It’s just too hard right now,” one gay man said, choking back tears and holding hands with his fiance as they rushed to their car. I don’t believe them at all, they were reveling in the spotlight. I also don’t feel sorry for these people. They could have gone elsewhere for a marriage license – this was to make a point. It’s the gay militaristic persecution of Christians and it is being condoned by the federal government.
Davis’ attorney is standing by her, defending her continued refusal to grant same-sex marriage licenses. A judge today ordered that Davis comply and issue those licenses or appear in her court and tell her why she should not be held in contempt. Her attorney has a couple of solutions he is suggesting to the state of Kentucky. One option would be to allow the Chief Executive of Rowan County to grant licenses. He is willing to do so. Or Davis’ name could simply be removed from the licenses, as it now appears on each one. “She is licensing something with her name on it that licenses something that is a sin and not an appropriate relationship in her Judeo-Christian beliefs,” the attorney said. To implement either of these options, the governor of Kentucky would need to step in.
Davis has issued a statement that she was elected to her office and she is honored to serve as clerk. She has no plans to step down. “In addition to my desire to serve the people of Rowan County, I owe my life to Jesus Christ who loves me and gave His life for me,” she said. “Following the death of my godly mother-in-law over four years ago, I went to church to fulfill her dying wish. There I heard a message of grace and forgiveness and surrendered my life to Jesus Christ.” Davis continued, “I am not perfect. No one is. But I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to Him and to the Word of God.”
Never in her wildest dreams did she think she would become the center of such national controversy. You see, I don’t think the state of Kentucky will accommodate her or stand by her. And nothing short of her being impeached and removed or signing those licenses will appease those standing against her. They want their pound of flesh and to make an example of Kim Davis. They want to send a resounding message to America that you have no choice as a person of faith… you must comply and kneel before the State or else.
“It is not a light issue for me. It is a Heaven or Hell decision. For me it is a decision of obedience. I have no animosity toward anyone and harbor no ill will,” Davis said. “To me this has never been a gay or lesbian issue. It is about marriage and God’s Word. It is a matter of religious liberty, which is protected under the First Amendment, the Kentucky Constitution, and in the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act.” Kim then refused once again to violate her conscience and her beliefs.
A contempt hearing has now been scheduled for this Thursday at 11 am. The plaintiffs don’t want her thrown in jail. I guess they fear her becoming a martyr. They want heavy financial penalties imposed instead. She can’t be fired… she would have to be impeached. There is an option for recall, but what do you want to bet if the election were held again today, she would be reelected? There are more steadfast Christians than they think out there. Davis’ latest refusal comes just one day after the Supreme Court declined to intervene in her case.
Davis was elected last November as a Democrat, succeeding her mother in the office she had held for 37 years, according to the Morehead News. Her staff includes her son.
As this played out today, two opposing groups faced off outside the entrance to the courthouse and exchanged barbs. “At the end of the day, we have to stand before God, which has higher authority than the Supreme Court,” said Randy Smith, leading the group supporting Davis. Ermold and Moore, together for 17 years, cried and swayed as they walked out to chants from the clerk’s supporters. “I feel sad, I feel devastated,” Ermold said. “I feel like I’ve been humiliated on such a national level, I can’t even comprehend it.” Oh, boo hoo.
Davis’ husband came to the office to check on his wife and stand by her side. He defended their faith and said she is “standing for God.” As for himself, he said he believes in the Second Amendment: “I’m an old redneck hillbilly, that’s all I’ve got to say. Don’t come knocking on my door.” Good for him – I like this guy. He pointed to the gay rights protesters gathered on the courthouse lawn and said: “They want us to accept their beliefs and their ways. But they won’t accept our beliefs and our ways.” And that’s the crux of the matter, isn’t it? Religious beliefs are protected by the Constitution… gay rights aren’t, no matter what the Supreme Court says.
Kim Davis will likely go down over all this, but that is a price she is willing to pay for her faith. She won’t be the first American Christian martyr to fall before the federal government and their despotic overreach. She certainly won’t be the last. There is a time and a place for civil disobedience. My fellow Christians, that time is now.
Absolutely correct.
The time has come for more and more people to realize that the Supreme Court's farcical "due process" 14th Amendment "jurisprudence" is fundamentally at odds with the Bill of Rights.
You Know, The Supreme Court also said that Slavery was Constitutional. It kind of sparked a Civil War!!
May we all have the courage of this brave woman, to stand for Jesus when it is our turn. May the Lord’s hand be upon her and her family.
It doesn’t really matter whether on resigns a job or not. This is going to come to all Christians’ lives in one way or another and soon.
Those who choose to equivocate, as even many churches have done, then they become partakers right along with the homosexuals, who are lost because there is no repentance in someone who forces everyone to do or condone what is unclean.
A marriage between two homosexuals is their vow to keep doing what they’re doing. Those who make that possible will join in their punishment.
Be ready. You too may have to choose between your job or the well being of your children and your family if you don’t bow to this abomination.
Yes, adultery, abortion, lying, etc. are all sins too. If they go unrepented, they will result in the loss of one’s soul. But Scripture says that those who go along with evildoers are also partakers with the same result.
Once upon a time all Americans were like this. If the govt at any level had tried to force any govt servant to do something that they considered morally wrong, they would have resisted to the end, as would the remainder of the citizenry — of course, the govt, would not have dared do such things. I can remember as a schoolgirl, when the courts first decided it was unconstitutional for prayers to be said in public schools, or JudeoChristian morality taught, every single teacher I can remember stated at one point or other, “I would like to see them try to stop me!” And they meant it!
And the ACLU is bringing suit against her ....
I agree with the county clerk, for her stand, her conviction, and yes, she does have guts.
OTOH, no matter how her faith runs, and whether she has ‘the covering’, or not, get her a bodyguard, quick!
Especially, these days.
Indeed....This is a preview of coming events. Can’t say we weren’t warned.
Someone should post her E-Mail address. We could at least E-Mail support.
“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 to the government of any other.” — John Adams
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” — President George Washington, 1753
Patrick Henry, “Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.”
“The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.” — Gouverneur Morris, writer of much of the U.S. Constitution, 1752-1816
[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man... and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.” —George Washington
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.” —Joseph Story
1856 - The new Republican party selected for its national platform a call to abolish the “Twin Relics of Barbarism, Slavery and Polygamy.”
“Society has always regarded marital love as a sacred expression of the bond between a man and a woman. It is the means by which families are created and society itself is extended into the future. In the Judeo-Christian tradition it is the means by which husband and wife participate with God in the creation of a new human life. It is for these reasons, among others, that our society has always sought to protect this unique relationship. In part the erosion of these values has given way to a celebration of forms of expression most reject. We will resist the efforts of some to obtain government endorsement of homosexuality.” — President Ronald Reagan, July 12, 1984
This is so inspiring. This woman shames me in her courage to stand for Christ. The rest of us, including me, should screw up our courage and stand along with her.
I Googled Rowan County Kentucky and one of the sites that came up was Clerk Davis. I E-Mailed support. I wish I was wealthy.
While I greatly admire county clerk Kim Davis for standing up for her faith, it wouldn’t surprise me if she was not aware of key language in Section 1 of the 14th Amendment which supports her stance.
14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
While the 14th Amendment is unpopular with many people, the intentions of the federal lawmakers who proposed the amendment to the states are supportive of Ms Davis’s position.
More specifically, regardless that pro-gay activist justices are now perverting language in Section 1 to justify legislating gay agenda rights from the bench, John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, had clarified that the amendement applies only those rights to the states which the states have expressly amended to the Constitution.
“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.)
In fact, Virginia Minor had used 14A’s equal protections clause to argue that her citizenship automatically gave her the right to vote regardless that she was a woman. But the Supreme Court clarified in Minor v. Happersett that the 14th Amendment added no new protections to the Constitution, it only strengthens rights which the states amend the Constitution to expressly protect.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
Note that before the 14th Amendment was ratified, the states had decided that they were not obligated to the respect the rights protected by the Bill of Rights. Only the federal government was obligated to protect such rights.
So even if the states had amended the Constitution to protect gay “marriage” before the 14th Amendment was ratified, the states were still not obligated to respect such a right. Only the feds had to respect such a right.
Getting back to Virginia Minor, note that the states later amended the Constitution to effectively give women the right to vote as evidenced by the 19th Amendment. But it remains that the states have never amended the Constitution to likewise expressly protect so-called gay “marriage.” And activist justices probably don’t want low-information citizens to understand that the Court has no constitutional enumerated gay rights protections to throw at the states through the 14A.
Finally, one of the reasons that pro-gay activist justices are unconstitionally forcing gay marriage down everybody’s throats is the following. As a consequence of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, activist justices have the confidence that the corrupt Senate will not lift a finger to work with House to impeach and remove such justices from the bench.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators and activist justices along with it.
Amen! If your name is in The Book, fear nothing this temporary world will do!
But as for me I would have resigned in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ before I would say a gay marriage certificate.
Thanks to each of you for your wonderful comments.
You can contact the county clerk’s office and respectfully, let them know you stand behind Kim Davis.
If you choose to email Kim directly, try to keep it to the point as she may be getting a lot of email.
Rowan County Clerk
Kim Davis
kimberlyb.davis@ky.gov
600 West Main Street Room 102
Morehead, KY 40351
Phone – (606) 784-5212
Fax – (606) 784-2923
Hours:
8:00 – 4:00 Monday – Thursday
8:00 – 6:00 Friday
9:00 – 12:00 Last Saturday of the Month
Thanks for the contact info.
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