Mormon Former AZ Sheriff Richard Mack Calls For “Uprising” In Utah Against Same Sex Marriage

Mormon Former AZ Sheriff Richard Mack Calls For “Uprising” In Utah Against Same Sex Marriage

by Will Kohler

He’s a graduate of the FBI National Academy who preaches that county sheriffs are the highest legitimate law enforcement officials in the land. He’s a hard-right libertarian who believes the federal government has no authority to require drivers to wear seat belts and who once demanded the government give him back the $4,800 he paid in income taxes.

Meet former Graham County, Ariz., Sheriff Richard Mack who at a rally held Saturday by The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers, Association, a coalition of anti-gay sheriffs and homophobic conservative who has put out the "call for an uprising" against same-sex marriage in Utah.

FOX13 reports.

Said Former Graham County, Ariz., Sheriff Richard Mack

“The people of Utah have rights, too, not just the homosexuals. The homosexuals are shoving their agenda down our throats...That’s a lie. That’s an absolute lie [that the federal government's ruling overrules Utah's laws]. We have a right to raise our kids without homosexuals being part of the Boy Scouts, the schools and teachers and doing everything. They can be all that, but don’t shove your agenda down my kid’s throat. We have a right to raise our kids how we want not how you want.  We don't want any more of your gay appreciation parades.""

Mack also said the U.S. Constitution was written to protect God-given, innate rights. "You're never going to convince us that homosexual marriage is one of those innate, God-given rights. It's not," he said.  "If you read the Bible, you will plainly and simply see that it's not."

Mack, created the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association about three years ago to "take back America county by county, state by state."  and to advance the principle that sheriffs must resist the government.

“The county sheriff is the one who can say to the feds, ‘Beyond these bounds you shall not pass,’” Mack writes on the CSPOA website. He further writes that hundreds of police officers, sheriffs and others have “expressed a desire to be part of this Holy Cause of Liberty.” He vows to train them, state by state, and says that the local governments they represent will issue a “Declaration to the Federal Government regarding the abuses that we will no longer tolerate or accept.” That declaration, he says, will be enforced by those lawmen. “In short, the CSPOA will be the army to set our nation free.”

Ah those peace loving Mormons.

Will Kohler