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Kim Davis vs. Judicial Tyranny

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

“If the law supposes that, the law is a ass — a idiot.”

Charles Dickens gave that line to Mr. Bumble in “Oliver Twist.”

And it sums up the judgment of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis about the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, which said the 14th Amendment guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry.

Davis refused to provide marriage licenses to gay couples lined up at her clerk’s office and was sent to jail for five days by a federal judge for contempt of court.

Good for her. We need more like her.

For behind her defiance are more authoritative sources than the five justices who gave us Obergefell: the Old and New Testaments, Natural Law, two millennia of Christian teaching and tradition, and the entire body of U.S. federal and state law up to Y2K.

Moreover, Kentucky never enacted a law authorizing same-sex marriage. Nor did the Congress of the United States.

Whence, then, did this “law” come?

Answer: This is a creation of a Supreme Court that has usurped the legislative power to impose a secularist anti-Christian ideology on a nation, much of which still rejects it, but has no recourse against it.

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Kim of Arc

Guest Post by Gayle

As a person who takes Christianity pretty seriously, I have been following with some interest the Kim Davis episode. As you recall, she is the county clerk from Rowan County, Kentucky, who was jailed for her repeated refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because of the Bible’s stance on homosexuality. She defied several court orders and was eventually incarcerated for contempt of court. She was released today after six grueling days behind bars because her deputy clerks have been satisfactorily issuing marriage licenses to all comers.

I don’t know if she intended to become a cause celebre, but I suspect so. Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz were there at her release, claiming she was a hero for standing firm in her faith and for submitting to the tyranny of the judiciary. A crowd of supporters sang “God Bless America.” Why do I find this spectacle revolting?

Allow me to digress just a bit. Somewhere in my young years I was regularly led in a prayer that contained the phrase “…keeping me unspotted from the world.” I was never quite sure what it meant, but I finally settled on the fact that it meant my faith should be humble enough that people wouldn’t be able to see, or “spot” it in me. Apparently I had already encountered some showy Christians and didn’t care for the spectacle. Years later my mother corrected me by explaining it meant asking to be uncontaminated by the unbelieving world. I still kind of like my own interpretation, which leads me back to Mrs. Davis.

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