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.
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.
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