Posted on 10/29/2015 10:34:54 AM PDT by wagglebee
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, October 29, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy told a Harvard Law School audience that government employees with religious convictions about marriage should resign.
The Ronald Reagan appointee said on Wednesday that if a public official has a moral objection to homosexuality, he must either follow the law or quit public service.
The judge's comment came in answer to a question a student asked about government officials who disagree with the Supreme Court's decisions on gay marriage, or abortion, and if those citizens have the constitutional right to act according to their sincerely held moral beliefs.
Kennedy replied that no, they do not have the right to refuse to comply with the law.
Curiously, Kennedy cited as buttressing his point the fact that few judges resigned under the Third Reich. "How many judges, do you think, resigned in the Third Reich?" Kennedy asked, to the response of silence in the great hall. He answered his own question by raising three fingers.
At one point, his words made quitting sound noble: "Great respect, it seems to me, has to be given to people who resign rather than do something they view as morally wrong, in order to make a point."
The justice admitted that Christians who must "enforce a law that they believe is morally corrupt" face "difficult moral questions." "However," he said, "the rule of law is that, as a public official, in performing your legal duties, you are bound to enforce the law."
Responses from Christian leaders noted the irony of saying that for public employees, the moral thing to do is follow immorality. Kennedy made no mention of religious convictions as actual, universal truths.
Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver commented to LifeSiteNews, "Unjust laws should be resisted." "The history of the United States includes non-compliance, even by presidents, to immoral laws."
Staver told LifeSiteNews, "Religious freedom and conscience should be protected." In fact, Staver said, morality requires the reverse of what Kennedy advocated. "Justices or judges who disregard the Constitution and impose their own will should resign."
Gay activists were quick to applaud. The online journal The New Civil Rights Movement reported that Justice Kennedy "left no wiggle room for the 'religious accommodation' the renegade Kentucky clerks are demanding for themselves."
Does this mean that this black robbed vulture admits that he acts like a Nazi?...
How did a kook like that get on SCOTUS?
I’m talking about the way the dominant culture and government is treating them.
Oops. Well, I don’t think that Kennedy could be stupid enough, either, to leave Obama and the Supreme Court looking like Hitler by accident. It pretty much has to be undermining on purpose.
That’s what I got from his comments. In his rush to tell Christians to quit their jobs, I doubt if even he, Justice Kennedy has thought that statement out fully.
No Mr. Kennedy, they should have pushed a gun up Hitler's @$$ and pulled the trigger, and that is also what they should do today.
You F***ers don't get to make up make believe law. You have become dictators, and I will be glad to see the end of such as you.
VEERRRY interesting.
I think it is more accurate to say that Kennedy thinks that the US Government (including the courts) is analogous to Hitler's German Government.
VEERRRY interesting
I do to, and it's the result of people like Kennedy and that Race Obsessed Socialist Fuhrer we have now.
Well then if Kennedy is right, then the Nuremberg Trials were a travesty of Justice....after all, the defendents were all just following orders!
It is astounding Kennedy would give such proof he is an absolute moronic idiot.
That is what I got out of it.
“Kennedy replied that no, they do not have the right to refuse to comply with the law.”
What law is that?
What a sorry excuse for a leader.
I think it is very revealing that kennedy used that analogy. The arrogance of the elite is unbounded.
So much for his disingenuous language in his opinion about religious liberty. What a pathetic liar.
Seems to me that he is admitting that the current Supreme Court and Hitler have certain unpalatable similarities
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