Month: September 2015

I was monitoring several TV shows today and was shocked at what I saw, heard, on the Fox News show “Outnumbered”.  The panel discussion was about Kim Davis (who by the way is a Democrat), the County Clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky who was in jail several days by order of a  judge because she refused to issue a marriage license to a same sex couple. Both Andrea Tantaros and Ainsley Earhardt stated on the show that the recent SCOTUS opinion on marriage licenses for same sex couples is, and I quote what these two ladies clearly stated, the SCOTUS opinion is “THE LAW OF THE LAND”. Really? REALLY? If I’m not mistaken, a SCOTUS opinion, or decision, is not, repeat, IS NOT, a law. NOT “the law of the land”. The simple reality is that a SCOTUS opinion, decision, only states that a majority of the justices have opined, decided, that something isn’t legal or constitutional. A little side bar here……..SCOTUS has been wrong, dead wrong, a number of times, but that’s another history lesson. Tantaros and Earhardt, both, along with the other panelists, stated they believe in “the rule of law”. Well, if they do actually believe in the rule of law, they should be demanding the judge  be charged with something for jailing Davis. It appears that Kim Davis was in fact adhering to the rule-of- law, Kentucky law, in the absence of federal law, which was properly enacted by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The law apparently clearly defines marriage as between a man and a woman. All this commentary is not a defense nor condemnation of Kim Davis’s religious beliefs. This commentary is to point out that two very important and prominent TV personalities made statements which are factually incorrect. To be fair, no pun intended, I have seen, heard,  several other people on radio and TV make the same incorrect assertion in the Kim Davis matter. And, what’s additionally disturbing is that some of them are actually lawyers, attorneys, who should know better. The simple fact is…..Kim Davis did not violate any law……but rather was upholding the law……even though her reason was not based on rule-of-law but her personal religious beliefs. Let’s take this a little further. Tantaros and Earhardt, and everyone else who are proponents of rule-of-law,  should be  demanding that the rule-of-law must apply to every elected or appointed person. PERIOD ! That would be a very interesting list of names. Use your imagination.