To listen to the debates you’d think the war in Iraq is the main issue in
the next election. I write to remind you that there are others
equally as big. The next president will influence the make up of the Supreme
Court. As a new American I’m appalled at the damage those black
robed usurpers of constitutional law have done already. Let’s get some bold
conservatives back into that august chamber.
Thomas Jefferson was the first statesman to
worry about the potential in the hands of the supreme court when he said to
Abigail
Adams: "Nothing in the Constitution has given them a right to decide for
the Executive. The opinion which (lets) judges decide what laws are
constitutional …..would make the Judiciary a despotic branch."
Consider this list: 2001 - Its wrong to
display the 10 commandments in a public building. 1963 - No form of prayer, not
even silent ones must
be allowed at a school function. 1857 - Black people were not
"persons", not citizens of America... they were "slaves"
that could be sold or
killed by their owners. 1973 - Unborn children are not "persons" and
they can be killed by their mothers up to the ninth month of pregnancy. 1999 -
Boards of Education cannot pray before their meetings. These are the gifts to us
from our Supreme Court. The good news though is that the
grievous list is a short one.
What would Jefferson say about this? He might
repeat what he wrote to John Eppes: "The original error [was in]
establishing a judiciary
independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its
guns on those they were meant to defend, and control and fashion
their proceedings to its own will."
Your vote this year might help save us from an
increasingly liberal and bombastic Supreme Court. "One single object [will
merit] the endless
gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping
legislation." (Jefferson to Edward Livingston) Remember electing an inept
president is a 4-year mistake, but empowering a secular humanist to the Supreme
Court could cost us 20 years of poor decisions. The word from the Bible to you
today is "To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than
sacrifices." One of the great responsibilities of living
here in the USA is that ordinary people like us get to vote our conscience on
great moral issues.
The Bible’s requirement for those who swing
the gavel is that they judge fairly, do not pervert justice, refrain from bribes
and refuse
partiality. That does not mean that America must have courts that favor
Christianity. Indeed the cosmopolitan nature of our society refutes such
a notion. We don’t want any group to impose ethics on another except by
representation in Congress. What we also don’t want is law handed to us
from the religion of secular humanism – and it is a faith all on its own –
by judges. With stealth and decorum our courts have begun to overstep
the boundaries of legal interpretation. They are turning court cases into
wide-ranging laws.
Ours is a republic. We want major laws to be
tested at the Hill in Washington. If, for example, the majority of American
citizens favor
prayer in school – so be it. Judges, mind your place! So far, it seems to me,
the Supreme Court is counting on the laid-back nature of the American
people. Some of their legal decisions in hotheaded countries would have caused
the population to rise up and fling them out of office. Our
constitution has placed them there for life. That’s why it’s so important to
elect a president that will propose conservative candidates in the
next 4 years.
Its not as though far seeing American
statesmen haven’t seen the danger. Use your next vote to guard against Abraham
Lincoln’s caution:
"…The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government,
upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably
fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary
litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will
have ceased to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned
their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(First inaugural address)