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Post by Seany-D on Nov 11, 2004 10:08:03 GMT -5
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Post by TheBuckeyeBitch on Nov 11, 2004 11:34:56 GMT -5
You mean this? "It was an unelected Supreme Court – answerable to no one – that legalized pornography, declared nude dancing protected freedom of expression, expelled God and the Ten Commandments from public schools, declared abortion and sodomy to be constitutional rights, outlawed the death penalty and imposed the idiocy of forced busing for racial balance on entire cities. No legislature would have dared vote for all this. The Right does not demand that the children of atheists be made to recite prayers or pledge allegiance to the flag in public schools. They only ask that their children be allowed to do so. " He makes the Supreme Court out to be a bunch of immoral, tyrannical atheists. They're not, and to suggest so is ridiculous (though having an atheist or two wouldn't be such a bad thing  ). Secondly, he misrepresents (deliberately, perhaps) the rulings about those issues and what the current status quo is regarding them. Abortion and gay sex are about the issue of privacy, not constitutional rights in and of themselves. Obviously, the God in the public schools stuff is misrepresented blatantly so, since any student is allowed to do or say any of those things if they wish (I've elaborated on the specifics of these things many times before, so I'll save myself the hassle). As for the unelected Supreme Court....you think the democracy-happy Founding Fathers didn't think about having them elected? But they realized that a government needs checks-and-balances to limit the power of any particular segment of it. In a democracy, the majority rules. However, there is a danger of a social or political minority being overwhelmed by that majority. As such, majority rule should not be able to restrict the rights and liberties of minorities. What would have happened to the Catholics in the late 1800s and early 1900s if the strong anti-Catholic majority was able to elect partisan Supreme Court justices who would be sure not to recognize the rights of Catholics? Protestantism would still be forced down their throats in the schools. Anyway, not one of my better rants I know, but I need to get some stats work done before I run my experiment later today. Susan "getting paid to mess with people's minds" Wise |
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