Posted on 06/29/2003 11:26:04 AM PDT by Polycarp
BLAME THE GOP FOR PRO-SODOMY COURT DECISION By: Reed R. Heustis, Jr. June 27, AD 2003
With one stroke of the pen, [homosexuality] has triumphed at the Supreme Court.
And guess what?
Republican-appointed Justices are to blame.
With a convincing 6-3 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, the United States Supreme Court on June 26 overturned a 1986 case, Bowers v. Hardwick, which had upheld the legitimacy of an anti-sodomy law. Sodomites and perverts all across America are hailing the Lawrence decision as the biggest gay rights victory in our nation's history.
Mitchell Katine, the openly gay attorney representing John Lawrence and Tyron Garner, the men whose arrest in 1998 led to the decision, proclaimed, "this is a day of independence."
Whereas homosexual deviancy has long been celebrated in the media and on our university campuses over the last two decades, the Johnny-come-lately Supreme Court now joins the orgy. As dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia correctly stated, "The court has taken sides in the culture war...."
How could this have happened?
Weren't Republicans supposed to be the champions of traditional values?
Weren't Republicans supposed to be the stalwart defenders of our nation's Christian heritage?
Seriously, just think:
Every four years without fail, the Republican Party instructs Christians to elect Republicans to office so that we can thwart the left wing agenda of the Democratic Party.
Every four years without fail, the Republican Establishment warns its rank and file never to vote for a third party candidate, lest we elect a Democrat by default by "giving him the election".
Every four years without fail, Christians are told that third party candidates cannot win, and that a vote for a third party candidate is somehow a vote for the Democrat.
Every four years without fail, Christians are bamboozled into believing that their beloved Republican Party will restore this nation to its Christian heritage.
Every four years without fail, we are told that only a Republican can appoint a conservative Justice to the high bench so that liberalism can be stopped cold.
Without fail.
Christians, wake up!
It is the Republican Party that is responsible for moronic decisions such as Lawrence. Quit blaming the liberals and the Democrats. Blame the GOP!
Out of the six Justices that formed the horrifying 6-3 Lawrence majority, four were appointed by Republicans! Four!
Justice John Paul Stevens was nominated by President Gerald Ford - a Republican.
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy were nominated by President Ronald Reagan - a Republican.
Justice David Souter was nominated by President George H.W. Bush - a Republican.
Two-thirds of the majority opinion were Republican-appointed!
"I believe this needs to be trumpeted," says Tim Farness, 1st District Representative of the Constitution Party of Wisconsin.
Indeed it does.
A 4-2 majority of the six Justices forming the Lawrence decision was Republican-appointed.
Republican President George W. Bush intends to run for a second term in 2004. Don't be too surprised when we start hearing the same-old song and dance all over again: "Elect Republicans so that we can defeat the Democratic agenda."
Mr. President: the Republican Party is the Democratic agenda.
© AD 2003 The Heustis Update, accessible on the web at www.ReedHeustis.com. All Rights Reserved.
OK PJB is now President how does he get his nominees past the Senate?But, since you can't because there is no way he could so the argument is over.
The only way to get a conservative SCOTUS is to have a conservative majority in the Senate. It won't matter about the President because the Senate is the key. Weren't the four in this article that voted against us were confirmed by a Rat Senate !
Your beef is truly with the society that America has become, aiming at the politicians is closing the barn door after the horses have gone, spitting into the wind, and many other cliches (!)
That morality has been driven from the public square and replaced with the relativism that comes from the absolute power of individual choice -- and in the collective, from the tyranny of opinion that rules the majority -- is not because of the politicians. They are merely the whores to the tyranny of opinion. And if society has fallen this far, the politicians will not save it.
Precisely! You hit the nail flush on the head!
This reactionary rant is reminiscent of those of post-9/11 leftists, who insisted the reasons al-Qaeda terrorists hate this country are the same reasons they do. Similarly, the author's charges have no basis in reality.
The fact of the matter is that no one who would have approached his or her tenure on the Supreme Court as a mission to restore America's "Christian Heritage" not only wouldn't be nominated by politicians who have to factor non-Christians into their campaigns, but SHOULDN'T be nominated. The Constitution, though written by the most part by men who were religious and whose moral code was based in belief in a Creator, never refers to this country as a "Christian nation."
You can like Pat Buchanan all you like, and say that America would be put into proper balance if he was choosing the Supreme jurists. But before that would happen, this country would have to experience a sea change that would make Buchanan a viable candidate.
Don't hold your breath.
I might be, but I've been a Republican for over twenty years.
I've watched as the GOP became progressively more and more liberal and socialistic.
The best chance Conservatives have ever had was the last three years of the Bush Administration, and it hasn't gotten us a damn thing but more of the same liberal crap that's been coming out of Washington for a generation!
The gay rights have been promoted, our basic human rights have been further eroded, illegals by the hundreds of thousands have been encouraged to come here and live off our welfare, our Second Amendment rights are struggling for survival, our school system is being liberalized at an alarming rate, the PC crap has a strangle hold on our First Amendment rights, our judicial system is so full of liberals that it barely functions, our economy is in the pits with a real unemployment rate of 12.4%, God is being stripped from our public and private lives, marriage failures are the norm now instead of the unusual, the porn industry is the only business that is making more money than it ever did, we're headed for the biggest deficit in our history, we're pouring more money into useless causes like AIDs treatment for Africans, we're breaking the social security system with each new give away program,.... and the only thing we can do about it is stay in lock step with the people who got us here?
BULLSH*T!!
You forgot pushing amnesty for illegals 6 months after a bunch of illegals rammed airplanes into buildings in downtown New York.
And signing the CFR thingy which recently...was ruled Constitutional (after everyone here told us it was all a clever play to let the court overturn it).
And supporting the continuance of the Assault Weapons Ban...for the children, I guess.
And pushing through Patriot Act I, Act II, Act XXXXX....never to end.
Thank you for that. It's not just Christians who are socially conservative.
I wish Scalia would get it right, too. It's not the end of Christian civilization; it's the end of Western civilization. Why does everyone think that there is only ONE religion in this land? It's very exclusionary.
There ARE conservatives who are not Christian.
Karl Rove.
We conservatives DO get the shaft by people we think we elect. But that's because we are a sizable sector of the voting population, but not anywhere near a majority. The majority is found elsewhere (mostly in the squishy middle). We get the shaft because politicians must, in order to stay in office, appeal to people who do not think like we do.
What you and other Republicans are refusing to see is that there is a convergence of the two political party's philosophies.
If we want a two party system in this country, a third party must come to prominence now.
No, my friend, I'm not brave.
I live and work in South Texas, and I see the illegal problem first hand.
It scares the crap out of me!
They wrote nothing. They merely struck down laws aimed at punishing a specific group of people. No different than striking down Jim Crow laws.
You folks lost the culture war. Don't take it so personally.
Me? I'm happy with this. Freedom is always worth celebrating.
All Hail the New Paganism!
There, that's the ticket.
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