Posted on 01/31/2017 8:23:19 PM PST by bimboeruption
President Trump has announced that he has nominated 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court as the replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
“Judge Gorsuch has outstanding legal skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline and has earned bipartisan support,” Trump stated in introducing his pick to the public Tuesday night.
“Mr. President, I am honored and I am humbled. Thank you very much,” Gorsuch, an Episcopalian, said to applause in accepting the nomination.
While it is not known where Gorsuch himself stands on abortion, he is the author of the book “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” in which he concludes that “human life is intrinsically valuable and that intentional killing is always wrong.”
However, some have questioned whether or not Gorsuch would seek to end abortion if the matter came before him on the bench. Andy Schlafly, an attorney and the son of the late Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum—who had supported Trump prior to her death—recently stated that Gorsuch “has never said or written anything pro-life.” He also said that Gorsuch is a “big supporter [of] granting special rights to men who say they have a female … identity.”
But Ed Whelan, who disagrees with both of Schlafly’s assertions, notes for the National Review that Gorsuch had dissented from the majority opinion when his colleagues ruled in Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Herbert that that state of Utah could not defund the abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
“Respectfully, the panel in this case not only conducted its own de novo review of the record, it relaxed PPAU’s burden of proof and even seemed to reverse it,” Gorsuch wrote.
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I’d be worrying less if Gorsuch was a member of a Protestant denomination that thinks abortion is a sin.
Not all denominations are equal when it comes to defending the sanctity of life.
I hope so...but this is a crap shoot. Pro-lifers won’t know if it was a great pick until after a decision pertaining to restricting abortion.
I’m Pentecostal, but I’d take a pro-life Catholic or Jew before I’d take a someone who waffles on abortion.
Gorsuch’s decisions look promising, but his choice of LIBERAL Protestant denominations has me concerned.
I’m surprised that he didn’t move to an Anglican Church. Much more strict.
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that not all Protestant denominations are created equal. Some advocate for abortion...some stand on the Word of God and call it a sin.
The Episcopalian denomination is “pro-choice”...translation pro-baby-killing.
Me, as well, Salvation. How does he sit through those anti-Biblical sermons?
Libs are scraping the bottom of the barrel again.
What’s his mother got to do with his nomination?
I wouldn’t consider the Episcopalians Protestant, except in the broadest sense of “not Catholic.” They’re certainly not like the Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, etc.
as they say in eastern pennsylvania: looks like judge gorsuch had some “good fetchin’ up”
You don’t have to tell me.
His mother may have been born Roman Catholic. Neil, too (maybe). His wife is British, so maybe that’s where the Episcopalianism (Anglicanism) comes in.
Absolutely a great pick.
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