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Harvard Law Professor Says Pro-Life Christians Should be Treated Like Nazis
Life News ^ | May 9, 2016 | MICAIAH BILGER

Posted on 05/09/2016 4:01:32 PM PDT by NYer

Every day, it seems, the United States is becoming a more hostile environment for people with pro-life and conservative positions. Abortion activists constantly challenge pro-life laws, stall abortion industry investigations, force religious objectors to pay for abortions and attack life-affirming resource organizations.

A recent article by Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet on the blog Balkinization calls for liberals to pursue even more aggressive measures against conservatives and pro-lifers, according to a new column by The Heritage Foundation’s Ryan T. Anderson.

Anderson wrote at The Daily Signal:

Now that President Barack Obama has reshaped the federal judiciary, liberal causes can win easily in court. And now that Justice Antonin Scalia has died, “judges no longer have to be worried about reversal by the Supreme Court if they take aggressively liberal positions.”

Tushnet blames what he calls the “culture wars” on conservatives, and he says liberals should now make conservatives pay. “The culture wars are over; they lost, we won,” he writes in italics. Tushnet claims that conservatives “had opportunities to reach a cease fire, but rejected them in favor of a scorched earth policy.”

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Since when have liberals been defensive? The scorched earth policy has been theirs. They’ve been the aggressors—they’ve been offensive. Conservatives have been defensive.

It seems hard to envision how conservatives could have declared a unilateral cease fire when they weren’t the ones firing in the first place. Liberals aggressively sought in the courts an unlimited abortion license, a redefinition of marriage, and now for transgender bathroom policies throughout the nation. Liberals haven’t been bashful to use the courts to reshape social policy when they couldn’t win at the polls.

… Tushnet makes it clear that he and his colleagues among the liberal elite want the government to treat conservative Christians worse than racists—like Nazis.

Tushnet said liberals should take a strong “hard line (‘You lost, live with it’)” approach to conservatives, including all pro-lifers (some liberals also oppose abortion), not allowing any “accommodations” or compromises. He said one of the first U.S. Supreme Court decisions that should be thrown out is Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which set a new standard under Roe v. Wade and allowed states to enact modest protections for unborn babies, especially viable late-term babies.

The United States already has abortion laws that are more extreme than all but a few other nations, China and North Korea, for example. It is concerning to think what would happen if Tushnet had his way.

Anderson ended his column by encouraging pro-lifers to keep working to ensure Tushnet’s oppressive ideas don’t succeed.

“It’s what Americans did after Roe v. Wade. Congress and the states passed a variety of laws that protect pro-life conscience,” Anderson wrote. “In Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court invented a right to an abortion. But after Roe, legislatures made clear that government cannot require a pro-life doctor or nurse to perform an abortion—that they, too, had rights.”

Despite abortion activists’ aggressive, well-funded efforts, they have not been able to block Americans from the truth. Consistently, polls show that most Americans oppose most abortions; and young pro-lifers are stepping up in increasing numbers to end the injustice of abortion and restore rights for babies in the womb.

MarkTushnet


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; harvard; marktushnet; massachusetts; obamacare; plannedparenthood; stemexpress; zerocare
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To: NYer

Why would I G.A.S. about Harvard Law and its pre-eminent turd? This one is an oxygen waster.


21 posted on 05/09/2016 4:26:35 PM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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To: getarope

Thought for a moment they might have meant Professor Bugcatcher


22 posted on 05/09/2016 4:27:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: getarope; NYer

Tushnet: A Mark who needs their a## in a sling.

I wonder if he called his mama yesterday and wished her a happy Mother’s Day?

He should have called her and told her he wished he would have been aborted.


23 posted on 05/09/2016 4:31:38 PM PDT by disndat
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To: NYer

Nazis?... He mean like Nazis... people who did not value human life and would kill babies? THAT kind of Nazi?

Irony can really be ironic sometimes.


24 posted on 05/09/2016 4:33:25 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A simple application of rope and lamp post will suffice for his ilk.


25 posted on 05/09/2016 4:40:49 PM PDT by Noumenon (Destroy Islam and its followers. The civilization you save may be your own.)
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To: NYer

Maybe this clown should be treated like Operation Anthropoid.


26 posted on 05/09/2016 4:44:53 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: NYer
Another view:

"Progresssive" ideology has brought such nonsense upon us.

Beginning in the late 1900's, those who self-described as "liberals" (more recently, identifying themselves as "progressive") called for "changes" which have been, in fact, regressive, in that they have carried America back to Old World ideas which limit freedom, opportunity, creativity, and plenty--just as they did in 1776.

Should any person who reads this doubt that such was the "progressive" agenda, read the following:

"Withdraw from Christendom the Bible, the Church with its sacraments and ministry, and Christian morality and hopes, and aspirations for time and eternity; repeal all the laws that are founded in the Christian Scriptures; remove the Christian humanities in the form of hospitals and asylums, and reformatories and institutions of mercy utterly unknown to unchristian countries; destroy the literature, the culture, the institutions of learning, the art, the refinement, the place of woman in her home and in society, which owe their origin and power to Christianity; blot out all faith in Divine Providence, love, and righteousness; turn back every believer in Christ to his former state; remove all thought or hope of the forgiveness of sins by a just but gracious God; erase the name of Christ from every register it sanctifies—in a word annihilate all the legitimate and logical effects of Christianity in Christendom—just accomplish in fact what multitudes of gifted and learned minds are wishing and trying to accomplish by their science, philosophy, and criticism, and what multitudes of the common people desire and seek, and not only would all progress toward and unto perfection cease, but not one of the shining lights of infidelity would shine much longer. Yes, the bitterest enemies of this holy and blessed religion, owe their ability to be enemies to its sacred revelations - to the inspiration and sublimity of that faith which reflects its glories on their hostile natures. They live in the strength of that which they would destroy. They are raised to their seats of opportunity and power by the grace of Him they would crucify afresh; and is it to be thought that they are stronger than that which gives them strength? Can it be supposed that a religion which civilizes and subdues, and elevates and blesses will succumb to the enmities it may arouse and quicken in its onward march? Are we to tremble for the ark of God when God is its upholder, and protector, and preserver?” - Dr. Benjaming W. Arnett, St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio, Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon, November 1876. Arnett's "Sermon" is available in the "Library of Congress - Historical Collections" - "African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection," 1820-1920; American Memory, Washington, DC.
Finally, in yet another section of that Sermon, Dr. Arnett, a Black Ohio State Legislator and A.M.E. Bishop, warned of a movement then under way among what we would call "academics" which, if successful, would destroy the nation. Below is a relatively small excerpt from that Sermon's conclusion. In it, Rev. Arnett warned about a movement among "liberals" to remove the ideas underlying America's founding documents. See if you recognize those ideas in what you have observed in recent years:

"The Danger to our Country.

"Now that our national glory and grandeur is principally derived from the position the fathers took on the great questions of right and wrong, and the career of this nation has been unparalleled in the history of the past, now there are those who are demanding the tearing down the strength of our national fabric. They may not intend to tear it down, but just as sure as they have their way, just that sure will they undermine our superstructure and cause the greatest calamity of the age. What are the demands of this party of men? Just look at it and examine it for yourselves, and see if you are willing that they shall have their way; or will you still assist in keeping the ship of state in the hands of the same crew and run her by the old gospel chart! But ye men who think there is no danger listen to the demands of the Liberals as they choose to call themselves:

"'Organize! Liberals of America! The hour for action has arrived. The cause of freedom calls upon us to combine our strength, our zeal, our efforts. These are The Demands of Liberalism:

"'1. We demand that churches and other ecclesiastical property shall no longer be exempt from just taxation.

"'2. We demand that the employment of chaplains in Congress, in State Legislatures, in the navy and militia, and in prisons, asylums, and all other institutions supported by public money, shall be discontinued.

"'3. We demand that all public appropriations for sectarian educational and charitable institutions shall cease.

"'4. We demand that all religious services now sustained by the government shall be abolished; and especially that the use of the Bible in the public schools, whether ostensibly as a text-book or avowedly as a book of religious worship, shall be prohibited.

"'5. We demand that the appointment, by the President of the United States or by the Governors of the various States, of all religious festivals and fasts shall wholly cease.

"'6. We demand that the judicial oath in the courts and in all other departments of the government shall be abolished, and that simple affirmation under the pains and penalties of perjury shall be established in its stead.

"'7. We demand that all laws directly or indirectly enforcing the observance of Sunday as the Sabbath shall be repealed.

"'8. We demand that all laws looking to the enforcement of “Christian” morality shall be abrogated, and that all laws shall be conformed to the requirements of natural morality, equal rights, and impartial liberty.

"'9. We demand that not only in the Constitution of the United States and of the several States, but also in the practical administration of the same, no privilege or advantage shall be conceded to Christianity or any other special religion; that our entire political system shall be founded and administered on a purely secular basis; and that whatever changes shall prove necessary to this end shall be consistently, unflinchingly, and promptly made.'

"'Let us boldly and with high purpose meet the duty of the hour.'

"Now we must not think that we have nothing to do in this great work," Bishop/Legislator Arnett said, "for the men who are at the head of this movement are men of culture and intelligence, and many of them are men of influence. They are led by that thinker and scholar, F. E. Abbott, than whom I know but few men who has a smoother pen, or who is his equal on the battle-field of thought."

"He acknowledges that this is a religious nation and wants all men to assist him in eliminating the grand old granite principles from the framework of our national union. Will you do it freeman; will we sell the temple reared at the cost of so much precious blood and treasure? These men would have us turn back the hands on the clock of our national progress, and stay the shadow on the dial plate of our christian civilization; they would have us call a retreat to the soldiers in the army of Christ; the banner of the cross they would have us haul down, and reverse the engines of war against sin and crime; the songs of Zion they would turn into discord, and for the harmony and the melody of the sons of God, they would give us general confusion; they would have us chain the forces of virtue and unloose the elements of vice; they would have the nation loose its moorings from the Lord of truth and experience and commit interest, morally, socially; religiously and politically to the unsafe and unreliable human reason; they would discharge God and his crew and run the ship of State by the light of reason, which has always been but a dim taper in the world, and all the foot-prints it has left are marked with the blood of men, women and children. No nation is safe when left alone with reason.

"But we have no notion of giving up the contest without a struggle or a battle. We are aware that there is a great commotion in the world of thought. Religion and science are at arms length contending with all their forces for the mastery. Faith and unbelief are fighting their old battles over again, everything that can be shaken is shaking. The foundations of belief are assaulted by the army of science and men are changing their opinions. New and starting theories are promulgated to the world; old truths are putting on new garbs. Error is dressing in the latest style, wrong is secured by the unholy alliances, changes in men and things, revolution in church and state, Empires are crumbling, Kingdoms tottering; everywhere the change is seen. In the social circle, in the school house, in the pulpit and in the pews. But amid all the changes and revolutions there are some things that are unchangeable, unmovable and enduring. The forces that underline the vital power of Christianity are the same yesterday, to-day, to-morrow and forever more. They are like their God, who is omnipotent, immovable and eternal, and everywhere truth has marched it has left its moccasin tracks.

"The Conclusion of the Whole Matter.We have patiently tried to examine the record of the nations of antiquity and learn the cause of their decay and decline, their fall, why their early death; and why so many implements of destruction around and about their tombs, and everywhere, in the silent streets, mouldering ruins, tottering columns, mouldy and moist rooms, and the united voice from the sepulcher of the dead past is, "sin is a reproach to any people." We see it written on the tombs of the Kings, and engraven on the pages of time, "sin is a reproach to any people." These are the principles of governments, Right and wrong; and the people who are the advocates of Right have bound themselves together and by their united effort they have brought light out of darkness and forced strength out of weakness.

"We as a nation have a grand and glorious future before us. The sun of our nation is just arising above the horizon and is now sending his golden rays of peace from one end of the land to the other. The utmost extremities of the members of the body politic are warm and in motion by the commercial and financial activities of the land. Her face is destined to blush with beauty when peace and justice shall be enthroned. The grand march of progress shall mark her in her onward advancement in moral strength, intellectual brilliancy, and political power. Then we can say that we give to every man, woman and child the benefit of our free institutions, giving all the benefits of our common school and the freedom to worship God under their own vine and fig tree. Then will we see written, on the banner of our free, redeemed and disenthralled country, the sublime words written, not in the blood of men, but in the sun-light of truth, that "Righteousness exalteth a nation." It will fall like the morning dew on the lowly; it will descend like the showers of May on the poor; and like the sun it will shine on the good and bad, dispensing from the hand of plenty the blessings of a government founded on the principle of justice and equality.

"Standing on the threshold of the second century of the nation's life, with the experience of the past lying at our feet, we are saluted by the shout of triumph from the millions who left their homes and business and attended the Great Exposition of the skill and genius of the world, collected at Philadelphia. We were permitted to receive the greetings from the oldest to the youngest nation of the earth. Egypt and the United States clasped hands over the waste of 5,000 years, and lay their treasures at the feet of our civilization. The material, intellectual and mechanical deterioration of the one, and the unprecedented progress of the other, stand in great contrast; in all that makes the nation great,—morally, religiously and socially, the young nation is ahead.

"Following the tracks of righteousness throughout the centuries and along the way of nations, we are prepared to recommend it to all and assert without a shadow of doubt, that "Righteousness exalted a nation"; but on the other hand following the foot-prints of sin amid the ruins of Empires and remains of cities, we will say that "sin is a reproach to any people."

27 posted on 05/09/2016 4:47:30 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: getarope

Some people have a “Dream Catcher’, Tushnet has a penis net.


28 posted on 05/09/2016 4:48:02 PM PDT by heights
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To: NYer

Repackaging Nazi’s as anti-Nazi’s, and Christians as the new Nazi’s


29 posted on 05/09/2016 4:48:11 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: NYer

We know that Jesus died for this person because He loved him.

I hope someone will enlighten him that his salvation might be in jeopardy.

May God find a way like he did with St Paul.


30 posted on 05/09/2016 4:48:53 PM PDT by ADSUM
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To: NYer

Odd. In this dweeb’s mind people who do NOT want to kill babies are nazis, and those who DO want to kill babies are not nazis. They really need to edit those old newsreels.


31 posted on 05/09/2016 4:49:03 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: NYer

This @ssclown needs to be removed from office and smeared the same as he smears Christians...he is a dangerous fascist!!!


32 posted on 05/09/2016 4:50:20 PM PDT by Stayfree (FlushHillary.com says "NEVER HILLARY", "NEVER HILLARY", "NEVER HILLARY")
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To: NYer
Every day, it seems, the United States is becoming a more hostile environment for people with pro-life and conservative positions.

Every day, it seems, the United States is becoming a more hostile environment for NORMAL people.


33 posted on 05/09/2016 4:54:47 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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To: loveliberty2

Read details later ping


34 posted on 05/09/2016 5:04:53 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: NYer

Looks like the old Mayor of NYC whom died a few years back, Koch? He was a decent Democrat, shame it wasn’t this guy that bought the farm.


35 posted on 05/09/2016 5:17:27 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: NYer

This, among other evidence, is why electing anyone out of Harvard Law School for any public office is a big mistake. Arrogance, ignorance, and hypocrisy, all mixed together.


36 posted on 05/09/2016 5:23:13 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: NYer

The baby-killing abortionists are the ones who act like Nazis.

This “professor” is insane.


37 posted on 05/09/2016 5:34:06 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The GOPe must be defeated.....the sooner the better.)
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To: NYer

As I recall, the Nazis took over and completely subjugated everyone else. Is that what he REALLY wants?


38 posted on 05/09/2016 5:50:33 PM PDT by lafroste
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To: lafroste
For you and I, yes. He believes that he will be in the subjugator class.
39 posted on 05/09/2016 5:53:34 PM PDT by sport
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To: NYer

The culture wars are over; they lost, we won,” he writes in italics.

Another clueless academic.
Thinks there has been a war.
Obviously has no idea what a war is!


40 posted on 05/09/2016 6:47:22 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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