WND EXCLUSIVE
AMERICANS' WEAPON AGAINST 'GAY MARRIAGE': NULLIFICATION
Grassroots movement developing from states' 'vehement' opposition to court ruling
Bob Unruh
When five of the U.S. Supreme Court justices last summer created a constitutional right to “same-sex marriage,” they overturned a bunch of state constitutional and statutory provisions against that status.
And they crushed the will of tens of millions of voters who had across dozens of states thought about “same-sex marriage,” and decided against allowing it.
Some of those voters now are strategizing ways to simply nullify the ruling from the lawyers on high.
Some high-profile resistance cases already are well-known – that dispute in Alabama over what to do with the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision in the state, the Kentucky county clerk who refused an order from U.S. District David Bunning to violate her faith and issue “same-sex marriage” licenses.
A lawyer in the state, Jeff Cobble of the Cobble Law Firm, told WND on Thursday that there are hundreds for sure, and possibly thousands, of residents in his state already taking up the discussion of how to nullify the decision.
Multiple arguments and possible moves are being discussed, but he said a couple of counties already have adopted resolutions condemning the action by the justices in Washington and expressing the sentiment that the decision needs to be ignored.
One of those counties, Greene County, recently approved a resolution that says the county is “vehemently opposed to same-sex marriage.”
It asks Tennessee state officials to challenge the Supreme Court ruling however they can.
Cobble explained to WND that he’s discussed the issue with dozens of lawmakers, a multitude of local officials, and state residents by the thousand through email chains and other social media.
The sentiment is that something needs to be done, and the most likely avenue is simply nullification.
That, he explained, is simply making the court decision of no account.
It’s already being done in practice in America, he said, on other issues.
For example, dozens of states have approved medical marijuana use. Some have even adopted laws allowing recreational use of the drug.
But under the federal statutes, it remains illegal and a criminal offense.
The fact that the federal government does not, will not, or cannot, arrest and prosecute all of those industry participants is a result of nullification – the fact that although the law remains on the books, no one really pays any attention to it.
Cobble said he even expects a legislative proposal when the state’s lawmakers meet after the first of the year, and he expects a positive outcome to the plan.
The lawyer, who is working without a client on the issue, but just for his own personal goals, said the other issue where nullification has proven effective is sanctuary cities.
Immigration laws remain on the books on the federal level, and the federal government has demanded complete control of the issue.
But hundreds of cities and counties simply announce they are sanctuary locations, and won’t enforce the federal immigration statutes.
Washington has done nothing to try to enforce those.
In both cases, he said, “progressives feel free to just ignore the law.”
But the results prove that the president believes in nullification, the attorney general believes in nullification and “that it’s widespread.”
His own interpretation of the Constitution is that since marriage is not mentioned in the document, it remains one of the subjects left to the states.
Now, he said, it’s “time for us to step up.”
Perhaps, he said, past time.
After all, what about the abortion decision by the court in 1973, the school prayer and Bible cases from the 1960s, and even earlier?
A multitude of decisions have simply been imposed on America by a judiciary without constitutional authorization, he said.
Cobble, who is active in the group Reclaiming America’s First Principles, told WND the grassroots already is working on the situation.
He recalls exchanging emails about the issue after the June decision. Then he contacted some friends, some lawmakers and got onto some email chain lists.
From there, it snowballed, with thousands now discussing.
Are there similar talks going on in other states?
Likely, he said.
In the state’s Blount County, Commissioner Karen Miller is sponsoring a resolution asking the Almighty to “pass us by in His coming wrath and not destroy our county as he did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring cities.”
Her request is based on the U.S. Supreme Court decision on June 26 that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Other commissioners have resorted to tricks to keep the item from coming up for discussion, but she’s determined to keep introducing it until the people have an opportunity to act.
The plan from Miller states, “We adopt this resolution before God that he pass us by in His coming wrath and not destroy our county as He did Sodom and Gomorrah …”
It also says, “We adopt this resolution begging His favor in light of the fact that we have been forced to comply and recognize that the state of Tennessee, like so many other God-fearing states, may have fallen prey to a lawless judiciary in legalizing what God and the Bible expressly forbids.”
WND reported only days ago that nullification is being pursued more and more by local and county governments, as well as states.
A new report from the Tenth Amendment Center, which focuses on state-federal issues, explains that issues recently have included the right to try experimental drugs or treatments, surveillance, hemp, the Second Amendment, the federal militarization of police, marijuana, money, Obamacare, asset forfeiture and Common Core.
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“Today’s nullification movement is revolutionary because it offers the hope of smashing the established political order; an alternative to ‘voting the bums out’ – a way to support the Constitution and liberty whether the federal government wants us to or not,” said Tenth Amendment Center Executive Director Michael Boldin.
He noted nullification actually was what rid the United States of prohibition. Lawmakers removed the law but that was long after it was essentially ignored.
Boldin notes that James Madison addressed the issue of the federal government enacting a measure that states found unacceptable.
“Should an unwarranted measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular states, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand,” Madison wrote. “The disquietude of the people; their repugnance and, perhaps, refusal to cooperate with officers of the union, the frowns of the executive magistracy of the state; the embarrassment created by legislative devices, which would often be added on such occasions, would pose, in any state, very serious impediments; and were the sentiments of several adjoining states happen to be in union, would present obstructions which the federal government would hardly be winning to encounter.”
Regarding marijuana, it remains illegal under federal law, but 19 states have legalized it for medical use. Colorado, Washington state, Oregon and Alaska also have legalized it for recreational use.
The federal government has made no serious effort to address the discrepancy.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/americans-weapon-against-gay-marriage-nullification/#xOwRzqJzkGJVmDUj.99My comments: The godless, Socialist, Secular Humanists, through the SCOTUS Same-Sex Marriage Ruling, have attempted to FORCE their godlessness on Christians by Law. However, for Christians the Law of God is an INFINITELY Higher Law than any human Court. The SCOTUS Ruling Ignores the Constitution and the States Right innumerate in the 10 Amendment. Everyone who claims the Name of Chrsit Must Ignore this anti-Christ Ruling, thereby Nullifying it. The apostle Peter said: "WE MUST OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN!" (Acts 5:29)
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