The faith of John Roberts (Turley commentary; claims he made a damaging comment to Senator Durbin)

Los Angeles Times ^ | July 25, 2005 | Jonathan Turley

[YaYa123]

Durbin is a Catholic too.

[kcvl]

" . . . no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

[Just mythoughts]

"According to two people who attended the meeting, Roberts was asked by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) what he would do if the law required a ruling that his church considers immoral. "


Tooooo bad "IF" all this took place that Mr. Roberts didn't asked the Moolah Durbin to be more specific. Got to wonder if it wasn't about "gay" marriage, that appears to be the liberals method of getting into law what the voters reject at the ballot box.

[GreatOne]

If that's true, sounds like the liberal lie/smear campaign is getting under way. Remember that Turley is sourcing a Republican (RINO?) as a source as well.

[AD from SpringBay]

huh? All I read here are a bunch of biased adjectives - much ado about nothing.

[YaYa123]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1450494/posts

Read all about it.


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/politics/politicsspecial1/26roberts.html

[YaYa123]

the following is posted, but a link here might be informative to some:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/politics/politicsspecial1/26roberts.html

[brooklyn dave]

I am disappoited that Roberts had go and kiss ass with the Senate in the first place.

[brooklyn dave]

I am disappointed that Roberts had go and kiss ass with the Senate in the first place.

[rwa265]

"Hannity is discussing this now."

http://www.wmal.com/

[The Inspector]

It appears that our skepticism about this story was warranted. Durbin is back tracking. Check out the 1:57pm post today on Powerline about the Washington Times story in which Durbin denies he questioned Roberts in the way Turley claimed.

[absolootezer0]

forget asking durbin, he'll deny it. instead, it's time to send letters to all our senators citing that durbin HAS intentionally violated his oath and that they need to vote to remove him from office.

[loveliberty2]

Durbin's questioning what Roberts would do if a law required doing what his church considered immoral is interesting.

What did he expect? Of course, it was a trap, and the kind that any nominee can expect from Far Left politicians whose arrogance is the only thing that exceeds their ignorance of America's founding principles.

The Left likes to claim and quote Thomas Jefferson as the final source for their counterfeit interpretation and misuse of his phrase in the letter to the Baptists, but they never use a plethora of other statements by Thomas Jefferson that do not agree with their agenda.

Some Jefferson statements which might be relevant to today's discussion are:

"All men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and... the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities." --Thomas Jefferson: Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779. ME 2:302, Papers 2:546

"Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry." --Thomas Jefferson: Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779. ME 2:301, Papers 2:545

"We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776. Papers 1:546

"The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right." --Thomas Jefferson: Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779. ME 2:301, Papers 2:546

[jwalsh07]

Thanks.

[Mia T]

ROE, MEDICAL SCIENCE, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, ROSS PEROT + HILLARY CLINTON