While pastors across Wisconsin sat inactive and silent for the last three months regarding a suit brought by the ACLU and a group of homosexuals to impugn God’s design for marriage, a Federal judge has now trampled our State’s Constitution. The Federal tyrant, Judge Barbara Crabb, subsequently refused to either command or forbid county clerks to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals.
The question now presents itself: What do we do?
First, contact your county clerk and declare the following to them:
1. Our State Constitution which forbids homosexuals from marrying is still in force. (Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has stated this several times since Judge Crabb’s opinion/ruling).
2. State law nowhere recognizes homosexual marriage. (In fact, before the Constitutional Amendment was passed by Wisconsinites in 2006, the homosexuals decried the effort because “state law already does not recognize homosexual marriages).
3. Nowhere in Judge Crabb’s opinion/ruling are county clerks ordered or given authority to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals.
Therefore they should not issue marriage licenses to homosexuals.
Second, if your county clerk is already issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals, contact your county sheriff and declare the following to them (below is what I said and wrote to the Sheriff here in Milwaukee County):
Sheriff Clarke,
Milwaukee County Clerk Joseph Czarnezki is violating state law in the county courthouse by issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals.
1. Our State Constitution which forbids homosexuals from marrying is still in force.
2. State law nowhere recognizes homosexual marriage.
3. Nowhere in Judge Crabb’s opinion/ruling are county clerks ordered or given authority to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals.
Therefore, Joseph Czarnezki should be arrested for ‘malfeasance in office.’
Please uphold the law and arrest him immediately.
Christus Regnat!
Pastor Matt Trewhella
If your county clerk does issue marriage licenses to homosexuals and your sheriff refuses to arrest them, run against them for office next time they are up for re-election and make what they have done an issue in the campaign.
Finally, contact Governor Walker’s office and decry his silence and total lack of leadership to defend our State Constitution against Federal tyranny. Since Judge Crabb’s opinion/ruling, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has said several times that the Constitutional Amendment for marriage still stands as law in Wisconsin (and it does!). Yet Walker sits silent while county clerks violate the law by issuing licenses to homosexuals.
Inform Governor Walker that he must order these county clerks to cease and desist and direct all state officials and employees to view all such licenses as void and invalid. You can call his office at 608-266-1212 and/or email him at govgeneral@wisconsin.gov.
The GOP has rolled over on this issue as they have no fealty to Christ. The vast majority of pastors in Wisconsin also have no fealty to Christ – hence their cowardice and silence. People often wonder when reading history how evil was able to pervade a nation. I have read enough history to know that it is precisely because of the cowardice and silence of people.
Nevertheless we have a duty to be true to Christ and declare the truth of His Word – both to the magistrates and the people. May the Lord grant us strength to do that.
If you need help, resources, or important information in your efforts, contact us at LesserMagistrate.com or call me at the church where I pastor – 262-628-9169.
Matt Trewhella is the pastor of Mercy Seat Christian Church (MercySeat.net). He and his wife, Clara, have eleven children and reside in the Milwaukee area.
