Posted on 06/10/2005 8:44:56 AM PDT by CWW
A Different Timpanist
WASHINGTON, June 9 - On the day in 1973 that the Supreme Court made abortion legal, the Pryor family of Mobile, Ala., discussed it at the dinner table. Laura Pryor recalls that she and her husband, both teachers in Roman Catholic schools, were "very upset." But they had little idea what an impression the talk made on their 10-year-old son, William.
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"We did not realize until later in life," she said, "until he was much older, how much we had influenced him on that."
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His father, William H. Pryor Sr., was the band director in the local Catholic high school, and so it was no surprise that the younger Mr. Pryor, an award-winning timpanist, would enter college majoring in music. But when he came home for the summer, his mother spied him watching C-Span, and knew he was headed in another direction.
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He founded one chapter of the conservative Federalist Society while in law school at Tulane University, and another while practicing law in Birmingham. "He's known as the Johnny Appleseed of the Federalist Society," said a friend, Algert Agricola, a lawyer in Montgomery.
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He pressed to keep a monument to the Ten Commandments at the Alabama state judicial building, yet prosecuted the chief justice, Roy S. Moore, for disobeying a federal court order to remove it. Later, in a speech titled "Christian Duty and the Rule of Law," Mr. Pryor argued that he "had a moral duty, as a Christian, to obey the federal injunction."
The speech was reflective of a thread running through Judge Pryor's life and career - his strong Catholic faith.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
For the Entire Article, you can go to the Bench Memo's link at National Review Online. (www.nationalreview.com)
Where were these NYT stories before his confirmation?
Where were these NYT stories before his confirmation?
They have to present these judges as normal mainstream folks so they can attack the President's Supreme Court nominees are FAR FAR RIGHT IDEOLOGUES
It's worse than that - they're at your throat until their bosses in the Dem party work out a deal and says you're OK. THEN they're at your feet.
Jesse
Well, in any event, it's about time we see a fair profile of Judge Pryor!
This is a very difficult issue. I am not sure that, as a Christian, I agree with Judge Pryor on that. 99% of the time he would be right, but on this issue I still have my doubts.
Pryor was dead wrong on this. Even as a state Attorney General, he is bound to obey, support and defend the US Constitution. It is beyond any reasonable doubt that neither the First nor the Fourteenth Amendment gives the federal government, including the federal judiciary, any authority to interfere with state matters on religion. The US District Court had no authority to order the 10 Commandments removed from any statehouse. If Bill Pryor recognizes this but passively obeys an illegitmate federal court order, he is part of the problem. He has offered similar views on Roe v Wade..."I know the decision was flawed, without any legitimate Constitutional basis...but I will enforce it anyway"
No thanks Pryor
wow. Who'd have thought, a NY Times profile piece that I actually enjoyed
Nail meet hammer.
You nailed it, old friend.
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