Posted on 09/19/2005 11:12:46 AM PDT by Houmatt
nice looking woman & smart! but a raving liberal...
Hey, Cathy...when ya win elections you get to pick the judges...
Crier is a liberal nut case. What trash. I read the inside cover of her book, and that was enough to convince me of her intellectual deficiency. Like many other hard socialists/liberals, she that upholding the Constitution, preventing activism on the SCOTUS, is an EXTREME RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT...when she, a liberal nut, is just looking in the mirror.
Yeah, like "YOU" have done a good job over the past 70 years!
Once again, "WE" have to clean up the mess "YOU" created.
"it is not their personal religious beliefs that I challenge; it is their stated intent to foist those beliefs on the rest of us by overthrowing our judicial system and America’s constitutional democracy"
To paraphrase Bishop Charles Chaput of Denver- If I don't push my beliefs on you, you'll push yours on me.
You give me the impression you don't like the "radical right". (radical means "of the root") But you don't tell me anything wrong with them or any harm that they have done, aside from your loaded choice of verbs such as "bellowed".
You haven't presented any case at all.
It's a wonder this self-important beotch can get her big head out her front door every morning.
She is very much in love with herself. She gave the Commencement speech at my college and it was 45 minutes of how great it is to be Catherine Crier.
Even the ultra-liberal feminist studies professors were disgusted with her conceit.
Most of them would like to see the United States under biblical law. Comparable to countries like Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, all of which live by Sharia (the strict Islamic code of the Koran), America’s right-wing fundamentalists seek a nation governed by Old and New Testament scripture. Born-again Christianity will supplant the Constitution.
What a kook! I didn’t realize she was such a barking moonbat!
I thought she was just your typical run-of-the-mill liberal knucklehead. She is far better looking than most, but so is my ass.
She’s way out there in Nuttyville. Good for her.
Ms. Crier whines: "For the first time since the early twentieth century, these items [the unconstitutional, socialist agenda of FDR and LBJ] are actually in play."
Good! Please let us have the Constitution wrested back from those in government who have overreached and have done so for decades aided and abetted by cynical judges and justices who secretly sneer at our faith in the nation's founding document while solemnly swearing their false allegiance to it.
The following is very true, though Ms. Crier denies it:
“These [leftist] judges actually despise the country and all it stands for; therefore, they believe that the best way to undermine and humiliate America is to break down its laws, morals, beliefs, and standards, and to bring about as much cultural anarchy as possible, so that the nation will eventually destroy itself."
you musta forgot your earplugs. LOL
As opposed to the far left who are in charge now. Actually what the "right" doesn't want is for the judges to make the law!
After she actually won the court seat, she was filmed during a court session filing her nails while a prosecutor was presenting a summation. She was known among some attorneys around here as "lipstick."
I want this book to be a wake-up call, a warning flare, a political stun grenade that provokes the silent majority of this country to stand up and take notice.
Sorry Catherine. You get put in the back in the discount rack like another can of beans.
Judge Crier has done what so many of her ilk have found convenient to do: distort history to suit their current political agenda and left-wing ideas.
There were many strident opinions about religion during the colonial and federalist eras of the United States. But almost none advocated a Secular government. The left often quotes Thomas Jefferson and his letter to the Danbury Baptists as proof of contemporary intent with the First Amendment, but neglects to mention several important facts. First, Thomas Jefferson played no part in the drafting of the Constitution, The Declaration of Indepence was the work of his pen and therein he mentioned God quite prominently. Second, Jefferson's veiws on many subjects were considered quirky and best, and downright bizarre at worst by many of his fellow founders.
One of the great challenges facing the new republic was how to forge disparate colonies and nascent states into a union. One of the results was federalism and separation of powers. The question of religion had to deal with very different traditions dating back to the founding of the various colonies. In some, religion was by law a matter of personal preference and reflect the colony's history as a refuge from religious prosecution. Royal colonies adopted the laws of England with an established religion that required contributions from every citizen regardless of their own religious views. Nonconformist ministers were not even allowed to legally marry their own adherents. Some colonies turned their nonconformist demonination into the established religion.
The compromise of the Constitution allowed the free exercise of religion throughout the United States. Everyone knew that establishment of religion meant that a religious demonination became part of the government establishment with the power to tax (tithes), the power to make and enforce laws (marriage and bastardy laws), and the power to execute certain executive functions (care of the poor). No one in their right mind would have argued that the United States was a secular government, it was just neutral to the various religious faiths and demoninations.
The idea of a secular government is a modern idea, Judge Crier wants you to belive otherwise.
I think that was a quote from Chapter one of Crier's book, not houmatt's words.
I saw her being interviewed (can't remember where, maybe FOX, but not sure) and was asked what the number one greatest threat the the Jucial System was and her answer was, "The evangelicals who want to turn our judicial system back to biblical times" - or some such nonsense.
She is a wack-a-doodle.
Besides, there's only one precedent that Crier or any other Liberal woman truly cares about, and we all know what it is, don't we?
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