Commentators
have missed the real significance of Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent
in the gay marriage case. He calls the decision a judicial “Putsch,”
an attempt to overthrow a form of government—ours. His dissent,
joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, was written “to call attention
to this Court’s threat to American democracy.”
His
comment about the Court using the kind of reasoning we find in a fortune
cookie is a funny line. But there is much of the Scalia dissent that is
not funny and which serves as a warning to the American people about what
the Court has done to us.
Scalia
understands the power and meaning of words and he chose the word “putsch”
for a specific purpose. One definition of the term means “a secretly
plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government…”
Another definition is “a plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow
a government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed.”
Hence,
Scalia is saying this was not only a blatant power grab and the creation
of a “right” that does not exist, but a decision that depends
on public ignorance about what is really taking place. It is our system
of checks and balances and self-rule that has been undermined, he says.
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I am an Episcopalian and your an Episcopalian and I am fervently against this.
ReplyDeleteThe Episcopal church will probably loose a following of sorts. Betrayal.
http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/episcopalians-vote-to-allow-gay-marriage-in-churches/
Thanks and they lost me during the Vietnam war which I should write about some time.
DeleteLet us wonder. :)
Delete:) I think I wrote about it on NamSouth, but can't seem to find it now. Thanks.
DeleteWould like to hear the story when you are up to it.
ReplyDeleteThe Supreme Court is the new Politburo and does not represent the population
as it was in the Soviet Russia where it was disproportionately staffed and did
not also represent the wider demographics of Russia and now the U.S.A.
Roberts and Kennedy - what the Hell are they. Turncoats.
Certainly and yup.
DeleteInteresting pic of Putin crying. Looks good to me unlike ODumbo who appears
ReplyDeleteto be picking a wart off his face.
https://saboteur365.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/putin-america-is-godless-has-turned-away-from-christian-values/
Saw that yesterday and started to post it until I saw the date. Thanks.
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