Kind of hard to beat Scott v. Sanford or Roe v. Wade (BTW, Dred Scott was the first use of “substantive due process” by SCOTUS, and Roe was the discredited theory’s widest application, at least prior to Obergefell) in the amount of evil that led to it or that was caused by it, but I think that the most egregiously ridiculous SCOTUS case ever was Eisenstadt. Prior to Griswold, many states prohibited the use of contraception by anyone, but in Griswold the Court struck down Connecticut’s ban *as applied to married couples* because marriage was such a slecial institution and marital privacy was the most important thing in the wirld, etc. So some states that previously had banned birth control now limited their ban to unmarried people, who would not have that magical “marital privacy” interest that had forced the Warren Court to strike down CT’s law. So an unmarried couple sued, and SCOTUS declared that law unconstitutional as a denial of EQUAL PROTECTION for unmarried couples! The state that had been for ed by SCOTUS to permit married couples to use contraception now was deemed to be discriminating in favor of married couples and against unmarried couples when it limited its contraceptive ban to unmarried couples. You can’t make this shi’ite up. Look up the case, it’s called Eisenstadt, but I’m too lazy to look up its full name.
the million dollar question is:
will the conservative churches now actively oppose judicial activism as an evil? Oppose it in deed, not just word.
Anyone who is serious about the Gospel cannot be content to be ruled by Elena Kagan. I wonder if the churches will actually learn to fight back. I doubt it. They are likely to shrink in retreat. at least on the east coast.