Marriage according to natural law (and scripture) and so by definition is between only a man and a woman. Same sex marriage isn’t marriage.
Even if Kim Davis is violating the law, she is suffering for it, because she was arrested and imprisoned, punished by a federal judge for disobeying the court. Gavin Newsom violated the law of the people of California, who voted on marriage law for the state. Kim Davis violated the will of the Supreme Court of the United States. Does the Supreme Court of the United States have the authority over a county clerk in the state of Kentucky? What law has Kim Davis violated? What is she in jail for?
If this (Dred Scott) important decision had been made by the unanimous concurrence of the judges, and without any apparent partisan bias, and in accordance with legal public expectation, and with the steady practice of the departments throughout our history, and had been in no part, based on assumed historical facts which are not really true; or, if wanting in some of these, it had been before the court more than once, and had there been affirmed and re-affirmed through a course of years, it then might be, perhaps would be, factious, nay, even revolutionary, to not acquiesce in it as a precedent. . . . Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power, except where the acquiescence of the people and the States can be considered as well settled.
The Dred Scott was a court ruling. Up to this point, marriage was determined by the states, a state right. That’s why there isn’t any Kentucky state mandate to marry two people of the same sex. Article One Section One of the U. S. Constitution reads:
All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Article One Section Eight says,
The Congress shall have power . . . To make all laws
Congress makes law, not the Supreme Court. Congress writes laws and the Supreme Court makes opinions. No law was passed in Kentucky legislating clerks to give marriage license to two people of the same sex. Donald Trump was asked about the case and he said, “The Supreme Court has ruled. It is the law of the land.” Is the Supreme Court the law of the land? In 1820 Thomas Jefferson wrote the following to William Charles Jarvis (several statements by Jefferson on judicial tyranny):
You seem … to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is “boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem,” and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.
The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots.
It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.
Jefferson also penned the following:
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.
That comes from the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The jailing of Kim Davis is government tyranny against the natural laws of God, the very God who gave us our rights. She nor any Christian should sign a same sex marriage license or certificate and follow what Peter and the other apostles said in Acts 5:29:
We ought to obey God rather than men.
Well said, but your last statement is your failure and the failure of the church:
"We ought to obey God rather than men"
Then why did you not obey? Why did you let political expediency be used to break the law and stand and say nothing?
You had an opportunity to get men out in the public highways and byways to preach THE LAW and the failure of men to keep it. You should have been in front of the capital or your local city government, preaching THE TRUTH of why men fail, lie and teach abominations contrary to the laws of God.
Could you imagine if the body of Christ, the church worked together for that ONE purpose, using that as a focal point to preach the gospel in the light of sinners doing that which is right in their own eyes?
But, instead you wrote this piece to tell us what? That Christians will be jailed (Ken Hovind is another) while sinners get away? The reason for this is that Christians are AFFRAID to stand for that which is right and preach openly, taking reproach when necessary to get the truth out. What the church has done rather is hide the light under a bushel basket.
What would have happened if there were 1000 groups of Christian men on every corner around the capital preaching against this ungodliness while at the same time opening an avenue for the gospel to be preached and Jesus Christ exalted?
I believe you all get the picture, but like most, I am just a voice crying out in the wilderness.