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July 1st, 2016 
Awake Goy
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Group
Attorney Rob McDuff has filed “one of two pending lawsuits” that hope to block the Mississippi state house bill 1523 which allowed county clerks to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, citing religious objections.
Known as the Protecting Freedom of Conscience From Government Discrimination Act, this bill defines marriage “as the union of one man and one woman”, thereby refuting the ruling of the US Supreme Court one year ago that marriage equality should be extended to same-sex couples.
The bill also clarifies that marriage is purposed for “sexual relations properly reserved to… marriage” and slighted transgender people by defining a male and a female as “an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at the time of birth.”
After the Supreme Court ruling in 2015, the concept of county clerks refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples became a thing thanks to Kim Davis .
Davis reacted to the decision by denying marriage licenses to all couples, saying she was acting “under God’s authority”.
Earlier this year, Davis-inspired copycat Irion County clerk Molly Criner told local media that she was no different than clerks being forced to collect information on Jews during Nazi Germany.
Criner also expressed a personal religiously-inspired belief that children need a mother and a father, not 2 mothers or 2 fathers. When she decided to enact her bigotry after praying, becoming physically ill and suffering from insomnia for several days.
All of this because she’d read the US Supreme Court’s decision to support marriage equality by allowing same-sex couples the rights and privileges of heterosexual couples.
Criner felt the judicial branch of our government had “overstepped their bounds” and that because anyone “with 10 bucks and an Internet connection” could become a licensed minister, county clerks are “the last gatekeepers” making sure that same-sex couples cannot be legally married.
She told the press: “One of the first things said was that I don’t have to do it, but my deputies can, and I can fulfill my Christian conscience that way, but for me that wasn’t an option when I prayed about it. I would be delegating my authority — that’s just like me doing it.”
Criner explained that she “looks at what God said, and … look at the way our Constitution was based on what God said” before obeying the Supreme Court.
Months ago Criner appeared before the Texas legislature during a hearing on protecting “religious freedom” and told the state representatives that she should be allowed to continue her refusal to obey the law because “no same-sex couple has requested a marriage license in tiny Irion County.”
To her credit, there aren’t any same-sex couples living in Irion County as of 2010.
The county clerk then claimed that “two news reporters posed as a same-sex couple and requested a license”, however she did not abide by their request because she is “obligated by law to issue a marriage license only between a man and a woman”, and she feels the Supreme Court’s decision is in conflict with the Texas constitution.
Despite one senator telling Criner that the US Constitution, Article 5, Section 2, affectionately known as the supremacy clause , dictates that federal law supersedes state law, the county clerk maintained that if she were to encounter a same-sex couple asking for a marriage license, she would “have to evaluate that the day it happens”.
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