Liberals are rushing to lampoon Rowan County, KY, County
Clerk who was sent to jail because she refused to issue marriage licenses to
homosexual couples. The jokes are fast
and furious about her multiple divorces, her out of wedlock children and so
forth. What none of these media hyenas note though is the change in her life
since surrendering it to Jesus Christ.
Nor do they look into what brought about her transformation. Maybe that is because they have no clue as to
what a life yielded to an authority beyond one’s self looks like.
Judge David L. Bunning sent a clear message in sending Davis
to jail: Criticism of homosexuality will not be tolerated. Philosopher J. Budziszewski says, “Things are
getting worse. The list of what we are
required to approve is growing longer.
Consider just the domain of sexual practice. First we were to approve sex before marriage,
the without marriage, and [now sex] against marriage”. Bunning’s actions seem to be the latest in
this movement. They have nothing to do
with the law, as he violated the constitution in prosecuting Davis. His actions have nothing to do with defending
someone’s civil rights, but have everything with protecting a particular form
of sexual behavior and attempting to elevate it to a plane equal to
heterosexual sex.
There has been much debate on this issue. Liberals, and even some Christians have put
forth the argument that Davis was a government employee and was duty bound to
uphold the law. What reveals the
hypocrisy of this argument is that when the mayor of San Francisco, Gavin
Newsome, illegally issued marriage licenses to homosexuals, liberals cheered. When President Obama picks and chooses what
laws he will uphold, not a peep is heard from anyone. If Davis belongs in jail, then so do these
two individuals.
In any case, the argument that Davis, as a government
employee, was duty bound is specious.
Davis is protected under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, also the law of the
land, which requires the government or any employer to make every reasonable
accommodation to an employee’s religious beliefs and practices. There were numerous accommodations that were
offered by Davis’ attorney which could have easily been made, but Judge Bunning
ignored them in his zeal to punish Miss Davis for her belief that homosexuality
is immoral behavior.
This is the crux of the matter. Democrats Obama and Clinton have stated that
they will defend the freedom to “worship” as one chooses, but that is not what
the Constitution protects. The
Constitution states that ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. The Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper once
said, “There is not one square inch in all of creation over which Jesus Christ
does not cry out, “Its mine””. The free
exercise of a Christ Follower’s religion does not stop at the church door, but
involves all of life, especially in how they represent Christ in the workplace
as Mrs. Davis is certainly doing.
Her defiance of Judge Bunning’s dictates is right in line
with the great Christian thinkers from Aquinas to Blackstone to Martin Luther
King, who by the way is also cheered by liberals. King wrote that man’s law must be in
compliance with God’s law, and if not, man’s law is an unjust law. In his
Letter From A Birmingham Jail, King wrote: “One
has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely,
one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” Davis, like King, was willing to face the
penalty for following the dictates of her faith, which is all the state can
ask.
If
Davis had been a Muslim, the courts would have bent over backwards to
accommodate her religious beliefs. But
she isn’t. She is a Christian. This is just the tip of the iceberg, because
the real goal here isn’t to recognize homosexual “marriage”. The real goal is to marginalize and
delegitimize Christianity in the public square.
Miss Davis is just the latest casualty in this campaign. There will be more to come.
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