This
is a very serious matter that
will affect the laws of the
land for many years to come.
In the USA, the courts have
been legislating from the bench.
And among other things, imprisonment
for those who will stand up
for true Christian values is
on the horizon (penalties arising
from hate speech laws, abortion
referral laws, same-sex adoption
laws, etc.). Whoever is the
next President will decide on
the make-up of the Supreme Court,
which will determine its direction
for many years to come. Joe
Biden wants to protect Roe v.
Wade (and so does Barack Obama),
and Obama will make judicial
appointments with this as a
major consideration. In fact,
they will NOT appoint pro-lifers
to the bench, because of this
consideration. On the other
hand, John McCain has the right
vision for the bench.
So
the electoral choice of Americans
for President will not just
determine the course of the
nation for the next 4 or even
8 years, but for decades to
come. Should a Catholic, by
voting for pro-abortion candidates
now, in effect sentence the
nation to live under the culture
of death?
God
bless.
frank
Courting
Votes
For
the last time, the U.S. Supreme
Court opened its session today
with President George Bush in
office. After eight years of
the slimmest conservative majority,
a new season of uncertainty
is looming over the nation's
highest court. Next year at
this time, two-thirds of the
Court will be at least 70 years
old, and Justice John Paul Stevens
will be one birthday shy of
his 90th. To say the next president
holds the keys to the make-up
of this court-and lower ones-is
an understatement. As writer
Michael Doyle points out, President
Bush has placed 316 judges on
the bench since 2001, meaning
that "one out of three
federal judges now owes a lifetime-tenured
job to the current president."
President Bush's successor will
inherit at least 44 vacancies
in the federal judiciary-many
of them considered "judicial
emergencies" by the Office
of U.S. Courts. Speaking on
behalf of the Obama campaign
at the Vice Presidential debates
last week, Sen. Joe Biden outlined
his judicial philosophy, saying,
"...[T]he ideology of [a]
judge makes a big difference.
That's why I led the fight against
Judge Bork. Had he been on the
court, I suspect there would
be a lot of changes that I don't
like... including everything
from Roe v. Wade to issues relating
to civil rights and civil liberties.
...And that's why I was the
first chairman of the Judiciary
Committee to forthrightly state
that it matters what your judicial
philosophy is." At a speech
in North Carolina, Sen. John
McCain had this to say about
his vision for the bench. "I
will look for accomplished men
and women with a proven record
of excellence in the law, and
a proven commitment to judicial
restraint. I will look for people...
[who] understand that there
are clear limits to the scope
of judicial power, and clear
limits to the scope of federal
power...They will do their work
with impartiality, honor, and
humanity, with an alert conscience,
immune to...fashionable theory,
and faithful in all things to
the Constitution of the United
States."
Additional Resources
McClatchy:
"For
to me life is Christ, and death
is gain." (Phil 1:21)