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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Ted King" |
| Date: |
06 Jul 2005 08:31:27 AM |
| Object: |
Family Research Council Alert |
https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL05G02&f=AL05G02&t=e&fix=1&track=0
[quote]
Encourage President Bush to name a CONSERVATIVE Justice
July 5, 2005 - Tuesday
Forward to a Friend!
The retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor from the U.S. Supreme
Court presents the most important opportunity we may have for decades to
stop the nation's courts from stripping away our Judeo-Christian
heritage. Justice O'Connor MUST be replaced by a conservative justice
who will honor the constitution and not make laws from the bench.
President Bush made a campaign promise to name justices to the nation's
highest court that mirror the judicial philosophy of Supreme Court
conservative Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. That promise,
more than perhaps any other, charged me and millions of other values
voters across the land to vote for Mr. Bush.
Justice O'Connor was the deciding vote on many 5-4 decisions of the
Court that strike at the heart of our Judeo-Christian heritage. You know
that just a week ago, Justice O'Conner and four others on the Supreme
Court ruled that the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed on public
property if there is a religious purpose in doing so. Honoring God in
the public square is now banned because of Justice O'Connor's vote. She
was part of the 5-4 majority striking down sodomy laws two years ago
potentially paving the way for same-sex marriage. And she also sided
with the five-member majority striking down the Congressional law
prohibiting the gruesome practice of partial-birth-abortion. You can see
why Family Research Council is pouring everything into the fight for her
replacement -- for someone who is a conservative and a constitutional
strict constructionist.
The President needs to know that you will stand with him in what will no
doubt be one of the biggest political battles this city has ever seen if
he keeps his promise and nominates a candidate like Justice Scalia or
Thomas. The President needs to hear from you and your friends and
neighbors right now before he makes his decision.
[unquote]
So not being able to put the Ten Commandments in a public area for a
religious purpose, and it being ruled unconstitutional for the state to
make a sexual practice between two consenting adults illegal, STRIKE AT
THE HEART of the so-called Judeo-Christian Heritage (the "Judeo" part of
the heritage somehow being glommed on after a long history of
anti-semitism by conservative Christians). Good grief, like Christianity
is going to die because Christians can't put their symbols in public
areas for purposes of the state endorsing THEIR religion and some people
practicing a kind of sex in the privacy of their own homes that
Christians interpret to be against their religion. Ridiculous! These
rulings do not strike at the heart of Christianity - they keep the state
from imposing one religious view on everyone else.
Incidentally, it was a 6-3 majority that struck down the sodomy laws,
not the 5-4 majority cited in this "Alert". Can't stop a little thing
like being accurate keep them from inciting the true believers I guess.
Ted
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