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What is WRONG with that?!?!
Isn’t it far worse as a country to tell people: “You opinions and moral views dont matter. We’ll shove this down your throat wether you like it or not.”

That may be the way to run USSR or China, but not America. We shouldnt have laws that force people to go against their moral beliefs. We need to allow for ‘conscientious objectors’.

If we dont have the freedom to act on our moral beliefs we dont have any freedom at all.

And dont tell me there wont be someone else around to fill the need; the existence of corner drug-dealers proves that there will be a maker for any market.

I got chunks of gals like her in my stool

Hopefully Scalito is too

We need more self ass-whipping men on the scotus

However, the landscape today is ripe for the Religious Right’s attempt to hijack our rights as they have set out to do over and over. They want to roll their juggernaut over the Constitution while the iron is hot now that they have Bush on the ropes after the Miers debacle. The Democrats? They’ve been non-players so long that being down looks like up to them. Don’t count on anything resembling character or principles from them because they lost their cajones long ago.

One of the oft-repeated drones by the Religious Right is that the First Amendment separation between church and state is a myth that has no basis in law. It is as important for these religious extremists to gut the First Amendment wording, and possibly even repeal it, through amendments that will supersede Article I in the Bill of Rights as it is for those who loathe the Fourth Amendment which, up until now, has always respected the right of individual privacy.

Their methods are used much in the same manner that the NRA has, de facto, superseded the Second Amendment gun regulation which by their interpretation adheres only to the latter part of the first sentence “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms…” –in other words, forget that “A well-regulated militia…” are the very first words of the Second Amendment.

Bork, of course, was denied a seat on the Supreme Court because he, like so many of the hard right wing of the Republican Party, have no use for the Fourth Amendment right to privacy which, by the way, has been expanded, not contracted in several individual states.

Instead, the Religious Right are demanding that the moment a woman becomes pregnant, her body and her soul belong to the state — by law. No longer will the wife and mother of her children (no matter how life-threatening her condition), her husband and family members or the family doctors, have any say in the matter of her survival because of the religious moralists’ insistence that she must die to save the life of a brain-dead baby who also may be dead on delivery.

In other words, these pro-lifers will get a Twofer, not just the death of the baby, but the mother’s death as well, leaving her husband a widower and her several children motherless.

But that’s exactly what these Religious Right moralists are demanding — a complete capitulation of democracy to be replaced by their dogmatic, pernicious theocracy — all enforced by law by a phalanx of like-minded partisan, activist, Republican lackeys who will legislate law from the highest bench in the land.

The Star Chamber of King Henry VII which continued through Charles I has reemerged in America, but only this time with the self-anointed End of Days, Armageddon-driven religious despots whose biggest obstacle is the United States Constitution.

But, the biggest danger to democracy and freedom for Americans will come from the same phalanx of judges for the next several decades, long after the Bush totalitarian government has left office.

The renewal of the USA Patriot Act at the end of this year will test the strength of democracy once the eyes of the people are opened and when they see the punitive provisions which will restrict and curtail the rights of all Americans. Those added provisions have already been leaking out, little by little, as we have all read in our papers or Internet online news sources.

By then, of course, it will be far too late. The Bush Star Chamber, ensconced with the likes of rubber stamp judges like Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Kennedy will see to it that the corrupt corporate elite which bought and paid for their government will not have to be accountable to anyone nor relinquish a single branch of their investment to anyone.

I’ll add a quote which I’ve used before to make absolutely clear why I believe our Constitution is in grave danger and under such attack by the tolerance-for-none invidious Religious Right and why it may not survive the next 3 ½ years under G. W. Bush.

Remember Randall Terry during the Terri Schiavo uproar when (Doctor) Bill Frist looked at grainy video recordings and diagnosed from that Terri Schiavo was not in a persistent vegetative state? Remember when the sanctimonious, self-serving Tom DeLay crafted a bill just for Terri Schiavo to keep the feeding tube in and then actually threatened judges who disagreed with his cohorts of the Religious Right? And remember G. W. Bush interrupting his vacation when he left his Crawford Ranch (something he didn’t do until three days after Katrina devastated New Orleans) and strode into the Oval Office to sign that bilious piece of garbage produced by the corrupt Republican-controlled U.S. Congress?

Well, here’s a quote that should give us reason for concern when we see where we are headed now that the Religious Right are cashing in their chips. Randall Terry, former Operation Rescue had this to say: “I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good … if a Christian voted for Clinton, he sinned against God. It’s that simple. Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country…”

Know them by their words.

Don’t like it Libs? Move to FRANCE!!!!!

Get ready for liberal crying and whining like you’ve never heard before!!! *LOL*

:O)

God bless AMERICA!!!!

Turk Fowler,

I don’t know if it was 10% of the land mass, or 20%, or 5%… but you’ll notice that we got all the educated, wealthy and cool/fun areas… and you got the corn fields, swamps, and glaciers…

The corn fields are being plowed for housing, the swamps are being drained, and the glaciers are melting due to climate change. Where are you going with your hillybilly friends next? Claim the ‘land mass’ of Greenland, perhaps.

Bok Bok, Chicken Hawk

Liberals ARE very worried about overturning Roe and the fundamental right to privacy because the Judiciary always has the last say.

No matter what hypothetical law(s) that might be passed to protect women’s reproductive rights or privacy rights in general, that law may be overturned at any time (on ‘interpreted’ constitutional grounds) by a nutty right-wing supreme court… much like the court we might be getting.

That’s the fear.

bok bok, Chicken Hawk

I just have a question. If Mr. Alito was unanamimously confirmed to the 3rd Circuit by the Senate, then how can Democrats now say that this man is unqualified and too much of an ideologue to be on the Supreme Court?

Good question. Another one: why didn’t Harriet Miers, the most qualified person in America for the S.C., get the support of an up-or-down vote from the Republican Senators? Didn’t they fight for this when considering previous nominations?

How would Jefferson react to a couple of Jews on the Court?

I know President Bush is looking for a conservative jurist, so he fits the bill in terms of someone who will interpret the Constitution literally and may disagree with the right to privacy, which is the foundation of Roe v. Wade?

This is something you all better pay close attention to. The most qualified person in America for the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, told Arlen Specter that she supported Griswold vs. Connecticut, but when the White House got wind of her comments, she suddenly withdrew her comments and said that she hadn’t taken a position on Griswold or the right to privacy. Details at http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/18/miers.specter/index.html

It is very telling that the last 2 nominees have issues with a person’s right to privacy.