Posted on 04/30/2007 8:59:22 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Is it significant that the five Supreme Court justices who voted to uphold the federal ban on a controversial abortion procedure also happen to be the court's Roman Catholics?
It is to Tony Auth, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He drew Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. wearing bishop's miters, and labeled his cartoon "Church and State."
Rosie O'Donnell and Barbara Walters hashed out the issue on "The View," with O'Donnell noting that a majority of the court is Catholic and wondering about "separation of church and state." Walters counseled that "we cannot assume that they did it because they're Catholic."
And the chatter continues, on talk radio and in the blogosphere. In the latter category, no one has stirred it up quite like Geoffrey R. Stone, former dean and now provost of the University of Chicago's law school.
He posted an item titled "Faith-Based Justices" on his school's blog and on Huffington Post. The post was mostly praised by liberal readers at Huffington Post, but set off a free-for-all back home in Chicago on the faculty blog.
Stone's argument was that the decision in Gonzales v. Carhart repudiated the court's previous abortion jurisprudence and offered flimsy reasoning for upholding the federal ban on the procedure opponents call "partial birth," when seven years ago it had rejected a Nebraska law that was "virtually identical."
"What then explains this decision?" he wrote. "Here is a painfully awkward observation: All five justices in the majority in Gonzales are Catholic. The four justices who are either Protestant or Jewish all voted in accord with settled precedent. It is mortifying to have to point this out."
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OH I see so the Demos going blame Cathoics for ruling probably they are so out of it LOL!
OH I see so the Demos going blame Cathoics for ruling probably they are so out of it LOL!
If Catholics adopted a conservative agenda, the Democrats would be finished.
I don’t think it was as much their Catholicism as it was their humanity.
You might as well ask if Ginsberg’s Jewishness had anything to do with HER vote.
Notice, one more time, the Rats ignore the issue, instead they attack personally, those on the other side. Someday I hope soon, America needs that little boy to stand up and tell us the Rats don`t have any clothes.
Hmm. More meds and sleep. Call us in the morning.
Basics: The left despises and wants to destroy all religion, because morality stands in the ay of their agenda. There is a virulent anti-catholocism at work, but in the end all traditional religions are to be targets. There was no settled precedent for partial birth abortion, and Souter and Ginzberg are left wing radicals, regardless of religion.
NO!
This article is a disgrace.
Sure, it’s because they’re Catholics.
They’re Catholics voting their conscience.
And this is a problem because...?
You don’t have to be Catholic or even religious to see PBA as out and out murder. Even those who tolerate early abortion see PBA as murder.
Who cares? Partial Birth Abortion is banned. Praise God!!!
Catholicism is humanity.
Jesus walked into a world that stoned women to death for committing adultery. Most of the world has given that up, since.
How come nobody ever says that someone voted for or against something because of their atheism? Just curious.
Did Harry Reid’s Mormanism cause him to vote for the measure?
I take this only to indicate that Catholics raise their children better... I’m sure is my son or daughter were on the court, they would have voted the same way.
What were they first: human, or Catholic?
That’s all I’m saying.
Not to diminish what you said either. You are right on.
Did Steven’s dementia influence his vote?
Did Bryer’s liberalism influence his vote?
Did Souter’s gayness influence his vote?
WHY YES IT DID!
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