To: leftcoaster
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. What ruling would the church consider immoral that is required by a strict interpretation of the Constitution? Serious question.
8 posted on
07/25/2005 9:29:47 AM PDT by
savedbygrace
("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
To: savedbygrace
What ruling would the church consider immoral that is required by a strict interpretation of the Constitution? Serious question.My question too - thanks for airing it. You can bet, that if it is considered immoral by the Christian community/religions, it will not be Constitutional.
14 posted on
07/25/2005 9:39:38 AM PDT by
trebb
("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
To: savedbygrace
**What ruling would the church consider immoral that is required by a strict interpretation of the Constitution? Serious question.**
I can't think of any, off the top of my head. Perhaps something dealing with the death penalty or war powers are all that I can suggest, without further research. ( I am a practicing Catholic myself.)
Now, if you have to look thru the pneumbra in order to find something constitutional in conflict with The Church, you certainly aren't any kind of strict constitutionalist anyway.
To: savedbygrace
What ruling would the church consider immoral that is required by a strict interpretation of the Constitution? Serious question. I don't think it would be possible for one to make a decision that violates church teaching if one follows a strict interpretation.
Judges don't make laws.
21 posted on
07/25/2005 9:50:40 AM PDT by
Tribune7
To: savedbygrace
What ruling would the church consider immoral that is required by a strict interpretation of the Constitution? Serious question.In the mind of the Left, that issue would be abortion. It always comes back to abortion.
This was just a clever way to dress up the increasing leftist belief that practicing Catholics should not sit on the Supreme Court.
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