I am reminded of the wisdom of that great philosopher of the 1950's, and the 1960's, "Pogo" (of the syndicated comic strip that was almost universally carried by most newspapers around the country), who profoundly described the predicament we find ourselves in today, in an America that has horrendously forgotten the principles it was founded upon. He proclaimed, sadly, that, "we have met the enemy, and he is us..."!!!
This nation was founded by Christian Separatists, in the Plymouth Colony of Massachusetts, and the more secular Jamestown Colony of Virginia (which was founded upon much the same principles, though without the degree of a religious theme as it's guiding influence). One of the most important issues our founding fathers were concerned with, and one of the issues that drove our fathers to fight an almost impossible war against the most powerful military of it's day, was the right of the people to exercise their religious beliefs without interference from the government. That, and the freedom to pursue whatever business endeavor they chose without having to pay punitive, and excessive taxes to a greedy, and wasteful government. They eventually reached the collective conclusion that there comes a point where a government becomes so tyrannically intrusive that it is not only permissible, but it is incumbent upon those who stand for righteousness to openly resist that government, even to the point of their own great risk of harm.
We have apparently reached such a point in America today, and our oppressors are now the political descendants of those Founding Fathers who decided that tyranny must be resisted, peacefully at first, and militarily if that is not effective. The absolutely evil decision by those five Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, that somehow the Constitution carries an unwritten "right" for Lesbians, and Homosexuals to be legally "married", when the Constitution says nothing about any form of marriage, at all, and in fact states that all powers, and authority not expressly given to the federal government by that document are automatically reserved, "for the States, and the people (meaning their local governments)". How anyone who has undertaken a lifetime of Constitutional study, as these Justices have demonstrated they have, can come up with such a blatantly false decision "out of thin air", absolutely escapes me!!! I don't claim any particular expertise in Constitutional Law, but even I can understand when a document says nothing about a subject, and says that all unwritten authority belongs to someone else! Come on, you Supreme Court Justices, catch a clue!!! Can you even read the document that is your main responsibility to interpret, and uphold?
Now, we have Kim Davis, a local government official, in Kentucky, who has been imprisoned for voluntarily resisting this outrageous overreach of the Federal Supreme Court, into an area that the Constitution has expressly reserved for the government that employs her. She is doing precisely what our Founding Fathers declared a free, and righteous people ought to do. Only, she has employed the principle of peaceful resistance, rather than the concept of armed resistance that our Founding Fathers decided was necessary, in light of an unresponsive government. Let us hope that it never becomes necessary to resort to violence to rid ourselves of these evil Politicians, Judges, and Bureaucrats who are trying to run roughshod over our Constitutional form of government today!!!
And, for those whimpy Presidential candidates who are trying desperately to "straddle the fence" on this issue (Chris Christy, and John Kasich, specifically), your statements that Mrs. Davis has a "responsibility to uphold the Law" is so profoundly ignorant of the facts that it disqualifies you for the office you are seeking, at least in my opinion!!! The Supreme Court has no authority to create laws, and in this case, there is nothing stated in the Constitution for them to interpret, one way or another! She is upholding the Law, as expressed in the Constitution, and it is these rogue Justices that are trying to subvert it!!!
[UPDATE: 9/9/2015---]
As of this morning, Mrs. Davis has been released from the local jail where she had been incarcerated for the past 5 days. Her original objection to providing marriage licenses to same-sex couples has not been resolved, however. The Kentucky Federal Judge who had her arrested seems to feel the situation has been resolved since her assistants are willingly providing the licenses requested. However, Mrs. Davis objected to the fact that these licenses carry her name as the official clerk authorizing them. As she refuses to resign, knowing that a very conservative State Legislature is unlikely to fire her, as is required by law in such cases, we have what amounts to a legal stand-off. The Judge has ordered her not to interfere with the assistants' provision of the same-sex licenses; but without removing her name from the authorization of those forms, one can logically expect that the next move will be some effort to do just that. She will likely do something that the Judge will interpret as "interference", and he'll throw her back in jail, to the greater outrage of her supporters.
This thing ain't over yet, folks! So, stay tuned!!!
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