Back in November 2014, Governor Jindal of Louisiana issued a statement in response to the executive actions President Obama took to fix our nation’s broken immigration system.
In it Jindal said in part:
The President is lecturing us and not listening to us. He’s bypassing Congress, and ignoring the American people… If the President wants to make the case that the law should be changed, he should go make the case to Congress and our people. This is an arrogant, cynical political move by the President, and it’s why so many Americans no longer trust this President to solve the problems we face.
Fast forward to May 19, 2015. Governor Bobby Jindal issues EXECUTIVE ORDER BJ 15-8 titled “Marriage and Conscience Order.”
It has a bunch of “whereasses.” The first one is a a beaut:
WHEREAS, Article I, Section 1 of the Louisiana Constitution is titled “Origin and Purpose of Government”, and provides:
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All government, of right, originates with the people, is founded on their will alone, and is instituted to protect the rights of the individual and for the good of the whole. Its only legitimate ends are to secure justice for all, preserve peace, protect the rights, and promote the happiness and general welfare of the people. The rights enumerated in this Article are inalienable by the state and shall be preserved inviolate by the state.
Under the guise of promoting “the rights of the individual,” to “secure justice,” to “protect the rights” and to “promote happiness,” the next eight “whereasses” full of legalese gobbledygook — even defining what a “person” is — set the stage for the grandiose finale, where “NOW THEREFORE, I, BOBBY JINDAL, Governor of the State of Louisiana, by virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution and the laws of the State of Louisiana,” grant by executive order the people in Louisiana in essence the right to discriminate against gays and lesbians when it comes to same-sex marriage.
Finally Bobby, a potential Republican candidate for President of the United States, in one stroke of his executive pen imposes a lil bit of theocracy upon the people of Louisiana:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, on this 19th day of May, 2015.
Bobby Jindal
Governor
ATTEST BY
THE GOVERNOR
Tom Schedler
Secretary of State
What is it you said about President Obama’s use of executive orders, Bobby?
Was it something like this?
… If the President wants to make the case that the law should be changed, he should go make the case to Congress and our people. This is an arrogant, cynical political move by the President, and it’s why so many Americans no longer trust this President to solve the problems we face.
Thinking of running for President?
Have you considered that perhaps the people of Louisiana love you so much that they don’t want you to run for President — as is the case with Governor Christie of New Jersey?
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The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.