Jello Jigglers: the Law in Chaos

The law is in chaos.  Judge Andrew Hartman ruled yesterday that it’s permissible for Boulder Colorado County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall to break the law. It is Judge Hartman’s job to require Hall to obey the law, not second her right to break it.

Colorado’s same sex marriage ban is on hold, by federal order, while the case makes its way to the Supreme Court. Hall, from Boulder’s “Berkeley of the West”,  has been violating the law by issuing marriage licenses anyway--more than 100 of them since the stay was put in place. The State Attorney General has sued her, saying that her actions are causing “legal chaos”, but Hall continues. According to the Associated Press, she insists the marriage ban violates the Constitution; that “an unjust law is not law at all” and she is justified in disregarding it. At this hour, two other county recorders have followed suit.

Judge Hartman has patted her on the head gently, saying it’s OK—she isn’t harming anyone by her actions.

They must be kidding. It doesn’t harm anyone for a government official to disobey the law and for a judge to tell her she doesn’t have to obey it?  It doesn’t harm anyone if they turn the legal system upside down? Law governs our world; it keeps us safe. If law doesn’t count, there is no safety.

If Hall says the marriage ban violates the Constitution she obviously hasn’t read it. The judge must not have, either, for that matter. Try to find marriage in the federal Constitution. It isn’t there; it never mentions marriage. Liberals who insist gay marriage is a constitutional right invented it. Its bogus—a total fabrication rising from a new, radical definition of equality.

Marriage is a state matter and Hall, as a state official, is under oath to obey state law.  It is not the responsibility of a county official to decide this matter. As they say in the military, this is above her pay grade. Hall’s stand—that she is acting on moral law and justice—is skewed. Gay marriage denies rights to the next generation—the right of each child to have a father and a mother. Rights and equality are not a one-generation matter. We respect the rights of all, including future generations: the right of children to have both a father and a mother.

Hall and her cronies believe their wants should be rights. What happens when other groups do the same—when the National Association of Bank Robbers, for instance, decides they don’t have to obey the law to not rob banks? Will Judge Hartman tell them it’s OK? How about the Association for the Advancement of Pedophilia—can they get a waiver, as well? Or, consider the illegals swarming across the border. Will Judge Hartman give them your house if they want it? If one law is to be ignored, these laws can be ignored, also. But, you say, this won’t happen; everybody knows robbing banks, pedophilia and taking away your house are wrong. Think again; we once thought homosexuality was wrong. With time and the right media campaign these illegalities can become rights, as well.

The issue here is not gay marriage, it’s insubordination, violation of the oath of office, and destruction of the Rule of Law. At stake is every law in the United States and your safety. Laws were not designed to be Jello Jigglers, they were written to be firm and obeyed. Clerk Hall should be removed and Judge Hartman should be impeached—now.