Posted on 09/07/2015 5:00:40 PM PDT by markomalley
On Breitbart News Sunday, Former Arkansas Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Americans must stand with Kim Davis, the country clerk who was jailed without bail for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses because doing so went against her Christian faith, to show that they are against the “criminalization of Christianity” and “judicial tyranny.”
Speaking to guest-host Matthew Boyle on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, Huckabee announced that he will attend a rally for Davis in Kentucky on Tuesday–he said that a number of churches are busing people to the rally and supporters from as far away as Virginia, South Carolina, and California will be in attendance.
“We need to show the country that not only do we stand with Kim Davis but that we stand against judicial tyranny,” Huckabee said. “You cannot stand by and have the criminalization of Christianity, which is essentially what we have sen when an unelected judge has not jailed, without bail, an elected official who was in fact doing her job, according to the Constitution of Kentucky.”
Huckabee noted that Jeffrey Dahmer, the Boston Strangler, John Wayne Gacy, and Al Capone all received bail but “Kim Davis–a country clerk in Kentucky who’s a Christian and, most ironically, she’s a Democrat–didn’t get bail.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
We Must Stand with Kim Davis Against Illegitimate Court Orders
God Bless Kim Davis.
Very well said by Mr. Huckabee.
Heading there tomorrow.
of genuine Christianity anyway
SCOTUS invalidated the marriage laws in almost every state. The institution of marriage in America died with the Obergefell decision.
This needs to be handled very carefully IMHO, because if government officials can flout law or a court decision this way, then there can be no way to end the notion of “sanctuary cities”.
SCOTUS invalidated the marriage laws in almost every state. The institution of marriage in America died with the Obergefell decision.
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From that logic, if SCOTUS issued a ruling stating all drugs are legal, would that eliminate all laws on the books about drugs?
And if marriage is already “dead” then why give out marriage licenses at all?
What the SCOTUS did was to invalidate the Statute in Kentucky that defined marriage. Right now there is no working definition of marriage.
Hence there is no longer a valid marriage law in Kentucky and there is no authorization statute for the giving out or registering of marriage licenses.
This is part of the law of unintended consequences. The only way the SCOTUS could legalize homosexual marriage in all 50 states was to invalidate the marriage laws in all 50 states.
They did that.
Unless and until Kentucky passes a new definition of marriage that conforms to the SCOTUS opinion, there is no valid marriage law in Kentucky.
Kentucky is not likely to do it because over 75% of the people of Kentucky voted to maintain that marriage is an institution founded on the idea of a one man one woman relationship.
.....Unless and until Kentucky passes a new definition of marriage that conforms to the SCOTUS opinion, there is no valid marriage law in Kentucky.
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Thanks for the quick response. So no marriage license is needed and those who are requesting them should stop asking.
Pretty much.
There is no Constitutional requirement for a State to have any marriage laws whatsoever.
SCOTUS just invalidated all the state marriage laws based on the definition of marriage being the union of one man and one woman.
Hence for all intents and purposes there is no marriage law in Kentucky or any other state that defined marriage contrary to Justice Kennedy's judicial abortion.
One Family Law Judge in Tennessee just told a couple that he could not grant them a divorce because (Thanks to Obergefell and Justice Kennedy) Tennessee currently has no valid marriage laws and hence he has no power to grant a divorce.
He was standing on firm statutory ground.
No clerk in Kentucky can legally issue a marriage license until the Kentucky legislature defines what the term "marriage" means.
What? All the smarmy jack-wagons on all the talk shows say the GOP is praying this all goes away.
question for you - since no marriage licenses are required, this info in the video does not apply? correct?
6:39 Minutes – Garcetti v Ceballos 2006 ruling which said that
“When a citizen enters government service, the citizen by necessity must accept certain limitations on his or her freedom.”
Lawyers Appeal Contempt Ruling Against Jailed Kentucky Clerk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjgV4MMluhg
Now if the governor of Kentucky issued a declaration that Kentucky is not going to follow the unconstitutional opinion of Justice Kennedy and maintain that the statutes as written are still valid, then Kentucky would have a marriage law system and Kim Davis could continue to issue the same marriage licenses she has been issuing since she was elected.
Where is the Kentucky Governor on this issue? Is he cowering in fear of Justice Kennedy?
Thanks for your insight and your time.
The state legislature is not scheduled to meet again until January and Beshear has refused to call a special session.
Appeal Filed in Kim Davis’s Contempt Ruling
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/06/us/document-kim-davis-federal-appeal.html?_r=0
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