South Carolina Rep. Bill Chumley who has read Matt Trewhella’s book on the duty of the lower magistrates and promotes its thinking – IS TAKING ACTION TO APPLY THE DOCTRINE. Please contact everyone you know in South Carolina about this so they can contact their governor. Here are the brief details:
Subject: Call Gov. Haley – Marriage can be protected in SC – Urgent action!
Dear friends,
How many times have you heard a politician campaign on the basis that they support traditional marriage? How many will be willing to take a stand now – when it counts – on that issue?
For the last few months, we’ve heard a lot of bad news about Federal judicial decisions forcing a growing majority of the states to recognize same-sex “marriage.” Even though “family values” are held out as a major conviction of many so-called conservatives, courageous solutions to the present crisis are not being readily advanced.
This lack of courage is due in part to the modern misconception that courts can make law. The notion is prevalent that their opinions bind everyone regardless of what is in fact moral or constitutional.
But in contrast to the inaction of many, SC Representative Bill Chumley is calling for an emergency session of the General Assembly for the purpose of addressing the gay marriage question. Governor Nikki Haley has the power to call this session. The legislature can and must stop the state recognition of same-sex marriage.
The solution advocated by Rep. Chumley is to disqualify any judge from office who issues a same-sex marriage license, under the legislature’s authority to do so vested in Article 5, Section 19 of the SC State Constitution, and to suspend the pay of any other state official (for example, a clerk of court) who issues a same-sex marriage license.
Such an action would put needed enforcement power behind the state constitutional amendment on marriage that passed in 2006 with 78% of the vote. This provision states, “A marriage between one man and one woman is the only lawful domestic union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.”
Please call Gov. Haley and respectfully ask that she call the legislature into special session as soon as possible so that our elected representatives can stop the federal courts’ attempt to make same-sex marriage legal in SC. The phone number for her office is 803-734-2100. If you’d prefer to write you may do so at her web page, http://www.governor.sc.gov.
Please ask all your contacts to call Gov. Haley as well. If our convictions are what we say they are, this is one issue that should truly mobilize us.
It is urgent that our governor and legislature defend marriage now, before this issue can be lost in the whirlwind of bills that will be introduced in January. The family can be protected in South Carolina if we make sure Gov. Haley and the legislature take action. Let’s pray, raise awareness, and make a lot of calls!
In Christ’s Liberty,
R. Josiah Magnuson
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God… hath prepared for them a city. Hebrews 11:16
(864) 420-7933 TheBetterKingdom.com fb.com/rjosiahm
ALSO: Take time to thank Representative Chumley for his rightful and needed actions as a lower magistrate.
