"Justices can't distinguish Constitution from Catholic catechism"
By Curt Levey Posted in SCOTUS — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Geoffrey Stone move over. Your anti-Catholic rant about the Supreme Court’s recent partial-birth abortion decision can’t compare to that of Frances Kissling, the recently retired president of Catholics for a Free Choice. The lengthy subtitle of her May 11 op-ed on Salon.com says it all: “By upholding the ban on ‘partial-birth’ abortion, the Supreme Court has injected rigid Catholic teaching into law. That's a crime against the Constitution and women.”
The rest of the op-ed is enough to make a less strident bigot blush. For example . . .
[I]t seems unreasonable to maintain the facade of a court free of a religious test. For some time now, such a test has existed—and it is an orthodox Catholic test. We were ill-served by senators who, fearing that talking about what orthodox Catholicism requires of its adherents would subject them to charges of anti-Catholicism, confirmed justices who cannot distinguish the Constitution from the catechism of the Catholic church.
Kennedy's opinion . . . could easily have been written by the late Pope John Paul II or the current Benedict XVI. Women are invisible in this decision as they are invisible in the writings of recent—and not so recent—popes. Now it's impossible for me to remain silent.
They are originally based on the Ten Commandments in the Bible, and we wouldn't want to have religion determining our laws right?
Throw in Stealing and Fraud
by BananaRepublican
Stealing and fraud (bearing false witness) should be made legal, too! After all, they are in the Ten Commandments, too, and integrating them into our legal code violates the Supreme Court's precedents on the Separation of Church and State *snark*
More proof that anti-Catholic bigotry
by Americaforever
is one of the last few "Acceptable" prejudices in some circles.
And btw, I won't hold my breath waiting for such "mainstream" sources to run op-eds about how the Judaism of Breyer & Ginsburg biases and taints THEIR rulings. Funny how that would be "bigoted" while the ravings of Geoffrey Stone and Kissling are not...
And here I thought that the opinion was talking about the law and the constitution. I guess I missed the references to the holdings of Rome in "The Catechism of the Catholic Church." Silly me.