Let me make it perfectly clear that I think that even the notion of same-sex marriages flies in the face of nature and commonsense. Still, I do not support Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who refused to grant marriage licenses to homosexuals, who had the legal right to receive them. Unlike the bakers, photographers and wedding planners, who drew the line at servicing such events, homosexuals help pay her salary. The right that was hers was the right to resign.

Granted, they only had the right to join in matrimony because the Supreme Court is overflowing with nitwits who think that just because they get to wear their robes to work, they possess the wisdom of a divinely-inspired council. For more years than I care to count, they have felt entitled to disregard the words of the Constitution while giving free rein to the dictates of their liberal hearts. That is tantamount to asking driving directions from a blind man. Or, rather, two blind men and three blind women.

Having said all that, I don’t want to have county clerks in Kentucky or anywhere else interpreting the law to suit themselves. As much as I oppose same-sex marriages, I prefer them to having civil servants deciding which laws they’ll honor and which they’ll ignore. Let me put it to those of you who cheer on Ms. Davis: How would you like it if some uppity clerk decided you can’t register your gun because he or she is one of those idiots who believes that guns, not criminals, shoot people, or even deny you a fishing license because they’re the sort who tithe PETA.

In short, you can agree in principle with someone without granting him or her the right to flout the law.

I have long admired British politicians, not because I assumed they were any less corrupt than our own, but because they quite often displayed flashes of wit that are so far beyond the usual braying we have come to expect of those we wind up electing that we might assume they were an entirely different species. That is why I was so delighted when Dr. Ben Carson, in replying to an atheist who called him a moron for believing in God, said: “I believe I came from God, and you believe you came from a monkey, and you’ve convinced me you’re right.”

But, then, like Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina, Dr. Carson isn’t a politician. These days, that seems more than enough to recommend them.

And why shouldn’t it when we see more than 40 Democrats lining up in the Senate to make certain that Obama’s nightmarish deal with Iran becomes a nightmarish reality? Like Stalin, Obama has discovered that he, too, can rely on the blind loyalty of those who have come to be known as “useful idiots.”

It seems unbelievable that a scant 240 years ago, most Americans were willing to go to war over a tiny tax on tea, and these days, nobody even considers conducting recall elections to remove these partisan traitors from office.

I heard someone on talk radio conclude that Hillary Clinton could commit murder and would still be supported in her run for the presidency by the majority of Democrats. I happen to agree. I would even go so far as to suggest that if the victim was her husband, she might even pick up some sympathy votes from Independents and a few Republicans.

Of all the annoying things, such as spam, pop-up ads and mechanical breakdowns, one associates with computers, one of the worst are all the damn passwords we’re expected to keep track of, lest we get knocked off altogether.

I understand that they are expected to provide us with security, but isn’t it time we gave up that illusion, the same way that grown-ups are expected to give up the notion that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, are all magical providers of treats and treasures?

In a day when major corporations like Sony and Target, a government entity like the Pentagon and even a hook-up site for adulterers like Ashley Madison, are as easy to hack as Hillary’s iPhone, why do we keep pretending that by simply avoiding using our birth dates or home addresses, and making sure to include a bunch of random letters, our communications can’t immediately be read by a bunch of Chinese nerds sitting in a nondescript building in downtown Beijing?

Which reminds me, every time I turn on the radio, I hear a commercial for LifeLock, which purports to keep all your purchases and other computer activities safe from prying eyes. Not only don’t I believe it, but I have come to realize that LifeLock would be the perfect place to get a job if I wanted to swipe all that information.

Finally, it is still early, but I wish to conduct the first of my polls to get the pulse of my subscribers as it pertains to the 17 contenders for the GOP nomination. Because it’s too much to expect that any sane person would commit all 17 names to memory, I have them listed below in alphabetical order. I would like you to list your first, second and third choice. I would also like you to list your three least favorites, the ones who, if nominated, might actually force you to stay home on Election Day.

I just ask that you avoid any editorializing. So, please, just names and no comments. I’ll take care of the comments when I report the results, although I readily acknowledge it’s hard to imagine some of these dopes garnering as many as 17 votes without having to bribe their relatives.

The herd consists of: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, George Pataki, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Donald Trump and Scott Walker.

Send your votes to me at [email protected].