The Final Answer

A town clerk in Kentucky is challenging, yet again, our political system's division of powers and the obligation of a nation to follow the edicts of its highest court in the land. Since 1803 in Marbury v. Madison, the power of the Supreme Court to make decisions relating to federal law was affirmed. The nation's highest Court has been working from this precedent ever since. The Court has the power to oversee and rule on Constitutional often extremely contentious issues and the Court's decision is final until another court overturns it.

The Supreme Court has been challenged throughout the nation’s history from the 1857 Dred Scott decision -- perhaps the worst decision issued by the Taney Court— affirming slavery to the 1954 decision of Brown v. the Board of Education calling dejure school segregation separate, unequal and therefore illegal. Its decision stands and the people must obey it.

In many other divisive national issues the Court has been the final arbitrator and this is no less true for gay marriage. It is now settled law and it will be so for this know nothing Kentucky town clerk who is denying marriage licenses to couples heterosexual and homosexuals alike claiming religious freedom. Ultimately, marriage licenses WILL be issued to both. Public entities are paid for by the people –ALL the people -- and the people have a right to use them. The Hobby Lobby decision establishing a religious freedom right (to which I disagree) applied to a private business, women’s health and insurance not to a public entity and marriage licenses.
 
 It has been pointed out this brazen, stupid, challenge to the Court is done so by a hypocrite. This woman has been divorced three times and married four times, gave birth to twins five months after divorcing her first husband, they were fathered by her third husband but adopted by her second husband if you can follow the convolution of that. She now, has the nerve to deny others their right to happiness but flouts the concept of marriage herself while having children out of wedlock to boot. Further, Jesus, allegedly her Lord and Savior, had nothing to say about homosexuality but had everything to say about divorce. He was against it.

The ACLU is suing her and they will win because the Supreme Court, no matter if one agrees or disagrees, has, in law, the final answer.

One can see how low the Democratic opposition can go. This is yet another reason to keep the presidency in Democratic hands as well as the Senate. The president has to power to shape the court and this aging court will see the president appoint at least two if not three Supreme Court Justices and the Senate affirm his choice.