Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis was led away to the hoosegow yesterday, charged with contempt of court for refusing to issue marriage licenses despite a federal court’s ruling that she must.

The judge, David Bunning, son of former GOP senator and baseball great Jim Bunning (and nominated to the bench by “compassionate conservative” George W. Bush), made it clear he was making an example of Davis, saying that allowing her to defy the order would create a “ripple effect.” Yes, the state wants no “ripples” to its authority. Bunning also warned other Kentucky clerks with the temerity to stand up to Big Brother that they would share Davis’ fate should they go there.

So Davis is to remain locked up until she complies with his previous order to provide paperwork to all couples, though how that can be accomplished while she’s incarcerated is anybody’s guess.

Davis claimed her religious conscience would not allow her to issue licenses to gay couples, so she stopped issuing them to all. Kentucky law requires county clerks to issue licenses. It was on the basis of this law that Bunning made his contempt ruling.

Religious issues aside, Bunning’s decision demonstrates that the rule of law is a farce in America. The “law” is only what the black robes and the elites want it to be (hence, President Obama’s refusal to enforce immigration laws, drug laws in some states, gun running laws, etc.). In holding Davis to one law, Bunning conveniently overlooked the fact that Kentucky law, passed as a constitutional amendment by a majority of Kentuckians in 2004, forbids same-sex marriage and prohibits same-sex couples from attaining any other form of legal status.

So we see that laws approved by the people and/or passed by their representatives are not law at all. Only five black robes now can  create or determine “law.”

Davis was actually upholding Kentucky law when she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. No law has been passed in Kentucky or by Congress (not that Congress has that authority) to change that.

The Supreme Court is not Congress, and only the legislatures of the several states or Congress are empowered under the Constitution to make law. The Supreme Court, under Article III, has only the power to settle controversies arising under the Constitution or between the states involving that legislature or the Constitution. It has not the power to write new law, nor is the issue of marriage under federal purview, according to the Constitution.

But because five unelected Ivy League-educated satanists wearing black robes want to sanction perversion, the will of tens of thousands of Kentuckians and millions of Americans has been overturned. If this is true, SCOTUS can strike down any and every law and there is no recourse to stop it. Find me that in the Constitution.

Leftists and libertarians regularly applaud those who stand up to the state on issues like sanctuary cities, drug laws, laws against selling or transporting raw milk, etc. And only radical segregationists called for Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activists to be jailed for ignoring discrimination laws. But on the other hand, most of those same people cheered yesterday as a judge slapped chains on someone many of them derided as a “Christian hypocrite” for daring to stand up for her religious liberty and for the real rule of law. Those of you applauding Bunning’s decision are applauding your own slavery, and you’re either too stupid or too blinded by your bigotry to see it.

Federalism is dead. Little “R” republicanism — as guaranteed under Article IV, Section 4 — is dead (does anyone even know what that means anymore?). The Constitution is dead. The rule of law is dead. Religious liberty is dead. The U.S. is now a nation lorded over by five black robes.

Congratulations. Idiocracy rules supreme. The dumbing down of America is complete.