Here's the straight dope on who the Dimdems think is a moderate*, safe Supreme
Court nominee! She was confirmed by 97 votes to 3! How things change! Or, just
maybe, this Alito guy is even MORE of a total nutjob, man!!!
(*TIME magazine in its recent list of powerful women calls Ginsburg a
"moderate". Read this and ask what substance they were abusing! Or simply
admit how ignorant their readers must be and that reading MSM publications
like TIME is the last thing they need!)
Senators Overlooked Radical Record of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by Phyllis Schlafly
Posted Aug 23, 2005
Hypocrisy stands at the pinnacle of the sins that liberals most disdain. So
it's fair game to compare the free ride they gave to U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with their searching the archives to pillory
every word ever written by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.
Liberal commentators and U.S. senators, who are salivating at the upcoming
interrogation of Roberts, never asked Ginsburg about her extremist views
spelled out in her lengthy paper trail. The senators didn't have to do much
research; I made it easy for them by publishing her words in my July 1993
Phyllis Schlafly Report.
I quoted extensively from her 230-page book called Sex Bias in the U.S.
Code, published in 1977 by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The purpose
of this book was to show how the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (for which
she was an aggressive advocate) would change federal laws to make them
sex-neutral and "eliminate sex-discriminatory provisions."
Ginsburg called for the sex-integration of prisons and reformatories so that
conditions of imprisonment, security and housing could be equal. She
explained, "If the grand design of such institutions is to prepare inmates
for return to the community as persons equipped to benefit from and
contribute to civil society, then perpetuation of single-sex institutions
should be rejected." (Page 101)
She called for the sex-integration of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts because
they "perpetuate stereotyped sex roles." (Page 145)
She insisted on sex-integrating "college fraternity and sorority chapters"
and replacing them with "college social societies." (Page 169)
She even cast constitutional doubt on the legality of "Mother's Day and
Father's Day as separate holidays." (Page 146)
Ginsburg called for reducing the age of consent for sexual acts to people
who are "less than 12 years old." (Page 102)
She asserted that laws against "bigamists, persons cohabiting with more than
one woman, and women cohabiting with a bigamist" are unconstitutional. (Page
195)
She objected to laws against prostitution because "prostitution, as a
consensual act between adults, is arguably within the zone of privacy
protected by recent constitutional decisions." (Page 97)
On the other hand, her view of the traditional family was radical feminist.
She said that the concept of husband-breadwinner and wife-homemaker "must be
eliminated from the code if it is to reflect the equality principle," (Page
206) and she called for "a comprehensive program of government supported
child care." (Page 214)
Ginsburg wrote that the Mann Act (which punishes those who engage in
interstate sex traffic of women and girls) is "offensive." Such acts should
be considered "within the zone of privacy." (Page 98)
She demanded that we "firmly reject draft or combat exemption for women,"
stating "women must be subject to the draft if men are." But, she added,
"the need for affirmative action and for transition measures is particularly
strong in the uniformed services." (Page 218)
An indefatigable censor, Ginsburg listed hundreds of "sexist" words that
must be eliminated from all statutes. Among words she found offensive were:
man, woman, manmade, mankind, husband, wife, mother, father, sister,
brother, son, daughter, serviceman, longshoreman, postmaster, watchman,
seamanship, and "to man" (a vessel). (Pages 15-16)
She even wanted he, she, him, her, his, and hers to be dropped down the
memory hole. They must be replaced by he/she, her/him, and hers/his, and
federal statutes must use the bad grammar of "plural constructions to avoid
third person singular pronouns." (Page 52-53)
Not only did Ginsburg pass former President Bill Clinton's litmus test of
being pro-abortion, but she was also on record as opposing what was then
settled law that the Constitution does not compel taxpayers to pay for
abortions. In her chapter in a 1980 book, Constitutional Government in
America, she condemned the Supreme Court's ruling in Harris v. McRae and
claimed that taxpayer-funded abortions should be a constitutional right.
In a speech published by Phi Beta Kappa's Key Reporter in 1974, Ginsburg
called for affirmative action hiring quotas for career women. Using the
police as an example, she wrote, "Affirmative action is called for in this
situation."
It's too bad that Americans were denied the entertainment value of a C-SPAN
broadcast of a Senate Judiciary Committee interrogation of Ginsburg about
her out-of-the-mainstream views. But Republicans rolled over and Ginsburg
was confirmed 97 to 3.
Liberals are trying to make a federal case out of Roberts' membership or
non-membership in the Federalist Society. But Ginsburg had been the general
counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, which, unlike the Federalist
Society, litigates to bring about leftist and even radical goals.
Tim Russert posed the pertinent question on Meet the Press, after showing a
clip of Clinton saying he would appoint only Supreme Court justices "who
believe in the constitutional right to privacy, including the right to
choose." Russert asked: "Doesn't George Bush, as a Republican, have the same
opportunities as Bill Clinton, the Democrat, to put people on the Court who
share his philosophy?"
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=8671
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