If Kim Davis had been a Muslim, she would not have been jailed for her refusal to grant same-sex
marriage licenses. Period. Who are we to
impose on their religion, would have
been the prevailing wisdom?
Mowing
the lawn a few days ago, I listened via my headphones to pundits, talkers and
sports-gabbers on various radio stations all
saying the exact same things about
this story. “While Kim Davis has every right to believe what she wants (you
could actually hear their eyes
rolling and the bile building up inside of them as they uttered this), if she
works for the government she must
adhere to the law. The rule of law is the overarching tenet here. The bedrock
principle of a democracy. No decent
society can long exist without it! One can’t pick and choose which laws one
obeys! (Obama sure does, and don’t get
me started on illegal immigration hypocrisy!)The freaking Supreme Court (nine unelected guys) decided this issue! Duh! You
can believe what you want (much eye-rolling), but if you work for the government you must obey the (their)
law. Civil law must always take precedence over religious (God’s) law, for the
good of society. Kim Davis is anything
but a martyr or a hero!”
On and
on it went (I have a decent size yard). Same topic, same beliefs. Mainstream, lock-step, close-minded,
intolerant, political-correctness
somehow trotted out as actual
thought…and courage. What would these same radio-robots say if abortion was
banned by the decree of the Supreme Court and Kim Davis was petitioning to have
one? Huh? Yes, they’d probably be a tad less vociferous in their dismissal of
her. We probably wouldn’t hear, “it’s the law,
bitch, get over it!”
Rosa
Parks was anything but a hero?!
Right? I mean, she went against the established law on segregation! What her
own government had established as rule of law. And slavery? Back in the day it
was simply the law of the (Confederate) land. You can’t let your silly little
personal “religious” objections
interfere with your government’s dictates!
The
Third Reich’s law of the land was that Jews were anathema. They were what prevented Aryans from always being in their proper
position as the master race. A good German did what the hell he or she was
told, dictates of their conscience be damned. Their government’s laws and ethos
commanded them to discriminate against- and perhaps gas- Jews. So they did. Like most totalitarian
societies throughout history, they mocked and attempted to ban religion. Not everyone always obeyed.
Many who didn’t were imprisoned or killed. Law of the land, you see. Man’s rule.
It was
not legal for women to vote until 1920. If Kim Davis had been
around prior to that date and said that her religious beliefs told her she should
go down to the local precinct and stand in line and attempt to cast a vote,
would today’s pundits and morality makers look at that behavior as remarkably
“extreme?!” The complete bullshit that the self-congratulatory,
holier-than-thou, (wildly intolerant) tolerant, elite chattering class spew forth on a daily basis is
breathtaking at times. Rarely stepping down from the comfortable pedestal
they’ve put themselves on to seriously contemplate any opposing viewpoint, they
typically just shake their collectivist heads and mutter, “do these rubes
really believe this crap about the
sanctity and sacredness of male-female marriage
and the right to bear arms and all the other b.s.?”
The shallow and dim tend to reply, “well, the right to gay marriage and women’s right
to vote and being pro-choice…they’re all inclusive
rights, so they are superior!” Really?
That simple? The right to bear arms
and the right to life are truly inclusive…and closely related at
that. And, they are actual rights! In fact, the right to the free exercise of
religion, freedom of speech and the right to bear arms are all proclaimed in
the first two Amendments to the
Constitution.( Oddly enough, if one looks particularly closely at the Bill of
Rights, one will find no right to
kill one’s fetus and have its parts sold to a third party for profit).
Apparently,
a good American county clerk does what she is told/commanded to do by her
federal government, her deepest religious beliefs be damned, even if she
happens to be a locally elected servant acting on her constituents wishes!
(Is Kim Davis a sinner? Like all of us, I’m sure she is. Has she led a perfect life? Nope, nor has anyone recently. Do we need the rule of law? Of course we do).
Today,
the American people are actually being deliberately prevented from learning how
and why this nation was founded, in large part by their own current governing class.
Many, if not the large majority of early American settlers, came to this
country fleeing government harassment, religious intolerance and religious
repression.
The
famously irreligious Thomas Jefferson
wrote, “Man has been subjected by his Creator
to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as
it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished
him…The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state
of nature, accompany them into a state of society, their Maker not having
released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.”
Sir
William Blackstone, an eminent English jurist, helped pave the way for the
American Experiment to succeed. He stated, “Man…must
necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator…This will of his Maker is
called the law of nature…This law of nature…is of course superior to any
other…No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such of them as are valid derive all
their force…from this original.”
Many
people are extremely concerned about the path this country is going down. Where
will it end? The world as a whole is in no better shape. People feel that ‘things
are slipping away’ and there is no underlying sense that we can do anything we
set our minds to do. People no longer believe our best days are ahead of us.
There is no reasonable, positive, strong, truly benevolent leader on the
horizon. No Reagan (or Thatcher, Walesa,
John Paul II, etc.) appears to be waiting in the wings to rescue us.
Is there a way out? Yes, but one, and only one.
We need to follow the Laws
of Nature, not mock them.