Posted on 09/22/2015 9:20:54 AM PDT by wagglebee
PRINCETON, New Jersey, September 22, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The latest Gallup poll shows that Americans' trust in the judiciary has fallen to an all-time low.
Trust in the judicial branch of government dropped eight points just in the last year, which saw major decisions including the constitutionalizing of homosexual "marriages."
It is a "significant" loss of trust, according to Gallup, with only 53 percent of Americans responding that they have "a great deal" or even just "a fair amount" of trust in the third branch of government. Trust in the executive (45%) and legislative (32%) branches are also quite low, but both were slightly up from last year.
In 2009, Americans' trust in the judiciary was 76 percent. In just the six years since then, mistrust has risen in nearly a third of Americans.
The Gallup website explained that "the decline in trust in the judicial branch likely stems from the Supreme Court's controversial decisions this year to legalize same-sex marriage, and uphold a key provision of the Affordable Care Act" (Obamacare). "As a result, the Supreme Court's job approval rating among Republicans plummeted to 18% in July," the polling website reported.
Additionally, a growing number of Americans (37%) describe the court's ideology as "too liberal," up seven percent from last year. That's the highest percent of Americans considering the court overly liberal in 22 years.
Gallup speculated that the low trust and "too liberal" opinions are "the effect of the Supreme Court's prominent left-leaning decisions."
Notably, 63 percent of Republicans and 35 percent of independents now say the Supreme Court is too liberal, with both figures up from last year. A large number of Democrats moved from saying the Supreme Court was "too conservative" to saying the nation's highest court is "about right" (54%).
Gallup concluded that "the decline this year is almost certainly a reaction – primarily among Republicans – to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on same-sex marriage and its turning away the latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act" (ObamaCare).
The results are based on Gallup's annual "Governance" poll, taken September 9-13. Just over one thousand people age 18 or older were randomly called via landline telephone (40%) and cell phone (60%). Gallup says the poll has only a plus-or-minus four-percent possibility of error.
Freepmail wagglebee to subscribe or unsubscribe from the homosexual agenda or moral absolutes ping list.
FreeRepublic homosexual agenda keyword search
[ Add keyword homosexual agenda to flag FR articles to this ping list ]
FreeRepublic moral absolutes keyword search
[ Add keyword moral absolutes to flag FR articles to this ping list ]
It is not gay. It is homosexual. There is nothing gay about it.
The courts have become nothing but radical left wing tyrants allowed by a cowardly GOP too.
Hate it when people say gay or now same sex marriage. No they are homosexuals and it would help if our side , some even on here understood they are helping the left by using their language.
I don’t think those activists in the courts care one bit that the courts have no credibility. They aren’t concerned with society on the large scale, just their own activist views. The rest of society doesn’t count or are “on the wrong side of history.”
The wrong side of history...link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikjZo7w4pq8
Attorneys make money whether they win or lose.
Attorneys make money whether they perform well or poorly.
Attorneys are the biggest section in the Yellow Pages.
Attorneys become judges.
Attorneys and judges excuse and enable many bad behaviors.
Attorneys and judges make many things cost more.
Attorneys become politicians.
Any questions?
Serious liberal disconnect on the issue.
Last night on the Steven Colbert show Ted Cruz continued to state that marriage is up to the state (which brought boos) and Colbert correctly noted that it isn’t in the constitution. (which means its up to the states) However when Ted Cruz pointed out that the supreme court was never intended to make law for 350 million people, the very same crowd cheered.
Surprised?
Me neither.
Well yeah, Rule of Law is dead in this country.
Roberts Court = Burger Court 2.0
The black robes do whatever their political handlers tell them to do.
Lets see...the people no longer trust the Executive branch, the Legislative branch and now the Judicial branch. What’s left? There is an acrid stench wafting across the fruited plains. We either fix it or lose it. There is no other option.
I do not trust any court in the US any longer. The left has completely taken the courts over at every level.
The 2015 gay marriage ruling completes a rewrite Article I of our Constitution. The First Amendment says and used to mean, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press….” In contrast the ruling on gay marriage helps illustrates how far the country has departed from first principles.
We are familiar with the term “speech or expression’, which seems an innocuous expansion of the above amendment. However, “expression” enables a nearly unbounded multi-billion dollar pornography industry.
Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion stated, “The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to advocate and teach the principles that are so fulfilling and central to their lives and faith”. Such language severely restricts religious freedom by happening to exclude “free exercise thereof”. Therefore believers pursue a hazardous course to exercise religious beliefs in business and personal lives.
Now we have country in which a woman can express herself in the adult film industry, but cannot start a bakery and exercise her religious convictions by refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.
I like Ted Cruz, but the fact that he’s an attorney is a BIG strike against him in the minds of many.
I prefer same-sex attracted. I don’t want to label someone because of his/her behavior. It raises civil rights issues.
White house spokesman yesterday was asked about Carson and what he said about muslims. Now all of a sudden the white house cares about religious freedom. Notice how it only occurs to muslims. It’s a bit like the muslim who wanted to grow a beard in prison and the court ruled he could because of his religion , and yet a baker has to ignore their religion when it comes to homosexuals.
A KY woman was jailed because of religion and yet a muslim women up north can refuse to serve people with pork or beer due to her religion.
There is an out and out war against Christians and when one brings this up the media mocks you to shut you up.
The decision that hurts me and my family is the “affordable health care act” ruling that have caused my dependent care coverage to more than triple. Not only have my premiums have more than tripled, my deducible rates have shot sky high to ridiculous amounts. My largest monthly/yearly cost is health insurance now. It is larger than a mortgage, larger than property taxes or school taxes or income taxes. It is larger than the grocery bill, any utility bill, any other expense, and it was a small manageable cost before the obomacare law with better coverage and smaller deductibles. That ruling has has a very large and serious negative impact on my family far more than any of the courts other abusive rulings. Since the affordable health care ruling, I have not had any faith at all in this SCOTUS, I expect them to rule on the side of tyranny every time now, and will be surprised in the cases they do not. This SCOTUS betrayal is a much larger issue to me, I’m surprised the gay marriage issue is the ruling that caused the record low in light of the rising heath insurance costs that SCOTUS played a part in.
3 Jews, 6 Catholics
NO PROTESTANTS NEED APPLY
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.