A Jailed Clerk

From what I understand there is a great deal of rejoicing going on over this clerk in Kentucky going to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. What I am trying to understand is why she is in jail. What laws did she break? She didn't. As a matter of fact she was upholding Kentucky law. The law in Kentucky says that a marriage license shall only be issued to a couple that consists of one man and one woman. She broke no laws.

I know what you are thinking,and it's sad to know this, you are going to say well yes but the supreme court ruled that gay marriage should be legal in all 50 states. Indeed they did. But here is the sad part.

The supreme court doesn't make laws. If you read the Constitution you would know that only congress can create and pass laws. Article 1 Section 1 “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.”See also section 8 right at the end.

So while the supreme court may have made a ruling, there have not been any laws legalizing gay marriage passed by congress, and because they have not done that it falls to the states (see amendment 10) to pass such laws. This also has not happened in most states, some have made it legal legislatively but most have not, so in fact this woman has committed no crime. She up held the laws of her state and her only “crime” is for expressing her faith as being her reason.

If you want to go to extremes with this, which for arguments sake I will, if you are going to arrest and jail a clerk for breaking a law ,which does not exist, then you should have to arrest and jail the president for violating and not upholding laws that do exists simply because he doesn't like them. The defense of marriage act ,just as an example, we are talking marriage after all, was passed by both houses of congress and signed into law by President Clinton. President Obama was against it so he instructed his staff not to defend it. He has also ignored or violated immigration law and yet no one is sending him to jail for it. Just to name in example or two.

The bottom line is that all that has been accomplished is that you have created a martyr and you have ticked off quite a large number of Christians. Good luck with that.