Chapter 20: Myth—Politics Doesn’t Matter

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Woe to the United States people if its Congress does not reign in such

judicial activism. Verily I say unto you that the Court cannot grant adult perverts such rights when they do engender sexual sin in our children. The Supreme Court in the United States is the direct cause of many people’s sin by their consistently immoral rulings. God will repay. Another headline

that read, “Combating Judicial Political Activism” 23 points out exactly how autonomous judges are. There are no checks on judges except impeachment and it is high time that all Legislatures create committees to oversee and reign in this “judicial legislative activism.” It is their responsibility.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently commented in a lecture at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. 24 “From abortion to the death penalty, the Supreme Court is being asked to determine moral issues that fall outside of the scope of strict constitutional interpretation. It is

blindingly clear judges have no greater capacity than the rest of us to determine what is moral.” This comment from a respected member of the U.S. Supreme Court begs some questions. First, if we are predisposed to moral error in the Court, why should we not be predisposed to error on the

side of a “decent” society whereby the “moral rights” of the majority are protected and favored? Secondly, why doesn’t the Court have a greater moral education than the rest of us? Thirdly, why hasn’t the Constitution itself been amended with some basic “melting pot” mores? Today, it seems

that “rights” have become the “morality of rights” or the “Rights of Man” — even when such rulings violate the rights of the mass majority of society. I.E. Why is it a “right” to teach children homosexuality is okay when it violates the “rights of 99% of society” that believe the exact opposite?

Surely if the Court should morally error, it should be in favor of the latter.

Kennedy’s “Rights of Man” dialogue was not just in his acceptance speech at the 1960 Democratic Convention. It is also found incorporated

into the 1960 Democratic Platform 25, which states:

“In 1796, in America’s first contested national election, our Party, under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson, campaigned on the principles of

‘The Rights of Man.’ Ever since, these four words have underscored our identity with the plain people of America and the world.”