Two weeks ago, North Carolina GOP Governor Pat McCrory vetoed Republican legislation that would provide a religious conscience exemption for State court officials who do not wish to participate in sodomarriage-related duties on the grounds that the federal courts and especially the U.S. Supreme Court are robed oligarchs with unlimited power to which we all must submit, or something.
Today, the North Carolina legislature shoved Governor McCrory's ill-advised veto right up his puckered starfish:
A measure allowing some court officials to refuse to perform gay marriage responsibilities because of their religious beliefs became law in North Carolina on Thursday, but opponents said litigation challenging the new measure was likely to come soon.
Or course. <eyeroll>
The state House voted Thursday to override Republican Governor Pat McCrory's veto of the bill, making the law effective immediately. The Senate voted to override last week.
North Carolina becomes the second state with such an exemption for court officials. Utah passed a similar one earlier this year.
The new law means some register of deeds workers who assemble licenses and magistrates to solemnize civil marriages can decide to stop performing all marriages if they hold a "sincerely held religious objection."
But here's the kicker:
The law "protects sincerely held religious beliefs while also ensuring that magistrates are available in all jurisdictions to perform lawful marriages," House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, said in a statement. [emphasis added]
In other words, this legislation does not impede sodomarriage in the Tar Heel State. It simply protects the First Amendment rights of those State officials who object to it on religious grounds. Which proves, redundantly, what the homosexual war against marriage is really all about: Not marriage, not "equality," not "tolerance," but the destruction of Christians and Christianity. It's not enough that queers get to "marry"; Christians must be forced to deny Christ and bow the knee (or bend over and grab the ankles) to Sodom (i.e. Satan) himself. The embrace and celebration of sexual deviancy and perversion will be universal....and mandatory.
Which is why civil disobedience, and the State equivalent - nullification - as in Utah and North Carolina is becoming the only alternative for the persecuted Church in America.
Arkansas telegraphs what's certainly coming next in the Tar Heel State:
A judge ordered Arkansas officials on Tuesday to recognize more than five hundred same-sex marriages performed in the state last year, a move that will let the "couples" enjoy a host of benefits such as filing taxes jointly and enrolling together in State health insurance plans. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen validated marriage licenses that were issued to same-sex "couples" after another judge struck down the State's gay "marriage" ban. The State Supreme Court halted the distribution of marriage licenses to gay "couples" after a week in May 2014 and is considering the appeal over a voter-approved same-sex marriage ban.
Which begs the question of how Judge Griffen can validate those "marriage" licenses when the Arkansas Supremes are still considering the appeal of the squashing of the democratically expressed will of the people of Arkansas.
"With shameless disrespect for fundamental fairness and equality, (Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration Director Larry Walther) insists on treating the marriages of same-sex couples who received marriage licenses between May 9th and May 15th as 'void from inception as a matter of law,'" Griffen wrote in his ruling.
Get off your Crisco high horse, Wendell. We could say the same about your shameless disrespect for letting Arkansans decide the sodomarriage issue for themselves by shoving your gavel up every one of their backsides. And as the aforementioned appeal of the pro-marriage law is still in process, and the Arkansas Supremes halted the process, Mr. Walther was not wrong that the gun-jumping five hundred "marriage" licenses were "void from inception as a matter of law".
You'd think that Judge Griffen could at least wait until the State high court renders a decision on the matter. But that would mean that Arkansans aren't all "gay," now. And that would be a national disaster.
A strange compulsion to harbor about not even two percent of the population at large. I'd concoct a double entendre about the tail wagging its intruder, but I already need a shower and a delousing as it is.
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