Rejected Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork warned that the high court has defined homosexuality as "a constitutional right . . . and once homosexuality is defined as a constitutional right, there is nothing the states can do about it, nothing the people can do about it."Good thing this guy didn't get on the Supreme Court. He apparently has forgotten about the amendment process.
Speakers compared the civil rights movement of the 1960s to demands now by Christian groups for restoration of traditional morality. "It's time we move to the front of the bus and that we take command of the wheel," said William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic LeagueI'm sure Rosa Parks would appreciate this allusion.
Harry R. Jackson Jr., senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in College Park, Md., said the "Christian community is experiencing a new unity around the moral values that we share because of common faith." Jackson, who is black, said that appointing judges who will strictly interpret the Constitution is advantageous to blacks. "If justice matters to anybody in America, it matters to minorities and to people who have historically been at the bottom of the barrel" who will not have "to deal with a maverick judge changing the law at the last minute."He has apparently never heard of Dred Scott. Dred Scott is one of the most beautiful pieces of strict constructionism ever written. In that decision, the Court went out of its way to determine the original meaning of the term "citizen" as it is used in the Constitution and found that the framers never intended "citizen" to ever mean "black person," even if that person was not a slave. Whoops!
--Reece
(Sorry for the pseudonym below, but I am now writing for a second blog here at blogspot and wanted to keep this one on the down low.)
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