Posted on 02/10/2017 8:11:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Obama was criticized by Republicans for attending a church led by Jeremiah Wright, who repeatedly criticized the United States for being, in his own opinion, an evil terrorist nation. People wondered, how could Obama sit through sermons like that, year after year? Didn't that mean that at the very least, Obama didn't have any serious problems with what Wright was saying?
Well, we saw after eight years of Obama that that was probably true – that Obama saw America in a bad light. That's why he kept trying to "fundamentally transform" it.
But what about Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch? He belongs to a far-left church that embraces marriage redefinition, gun control, and the theory of man-caused global warming.
He belongs to St. John's Episcopal Church in Boulder, Colo., the Episcopal diocese of Colorado confirmed on Wednesday. Church bulletins show that the judge has been an usher three times in recent months. His wife Louise frequently leads the intercessory prayer and reads the weekly Scripture at Sunday services, and his daughters assist in ceremonial duties during church services as acolytes.
The first word that St. John's uses to describe itself on its website and Facebook page is "inclusive," and the church is led by a female rector. On its website, the church encourages members to write letters to Congress asking for actions addressing climate change.
That's not all. Its website also calls for members to lobby their congressmen for more gun control.
Rev. Susan Springer has said she is pro-gay marriage and offers blessings to same-sex couples
The church's Rev. Ted Howard also signed a letter slamming the 'disrespectful rhetoric' directed at Islam as Trump floated a ban on Muslim immigrants[.] ...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It would help to know what kind of church Scalia, Alito, and Thomas attended prior to their confirmation. In other words, is there predictive value in this type of information.
RE: Why belong to a church unless you are at one with its teachings? Something smells here.
Well, I can’t speak for Gorsuch, I do know of people who still remain in churches that used to be traditional but have gone liberal IN ORDER TO internally influence the church to go back to its traditional roots.
I find it strange and troubling.
One’s view of religion and faith must (or in most cases) informs one’s view of earthly events, which some might call “politics.” Some are very directly related - for example, regarding abortion.
But more than that, one’s religious views also very often represents a WAY of thinking, or logic. What is the role of religion vs. government in society? Does one believe in the primacy of Natural Law? Does evil exist?
How one views these things will very much effect ones legal views.
Protestants are a majority in this country, yet have no representation on the highest court in the land. Jews are 3% of the population yet make up almost 40% of the court. Obama's nominee to fill Scalia's seat, Merrick Garland, was also Jewish.
I don't see the religion of Gorsuch being an issue.
I look to the guys judicial record not his church. I don’t really think you can equate the crazy trinity church to mainstream Protestantism.
Perhaps the next person Trump nominates to the Court can be one who publicly identifies as a Christian first and is known and established as a believing Christian before any denominational label is applied. One could even hope for a non-denominational Christian Supreme Court nominee.
I nominate Sarah Palin or someone just like her in ideology.
RE: It would help to know what kind of church Scalia, Alito, and Thomas attended prior to their confirmation. In other words, is there predictive value in this type of information.
The thing is, they are all ROMAN CATHOLICS. Individual parishes might go liberal but the Pope then were John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and they were conservatives ( unlike the current one ).
When was the last Southern Baptist on the court? I am one
Sotomayor is a Roman Catholic. Her views on abortion are not informed by her religion.
I’m concerned about it. Boulder is leftie; the Episcopal Church has gone over the edge leftie, imho. I like him, though. (Conservative) Catholic here, ran screaming FROM the Episcopal Church.
At least his Protestant Church is a step away from a court that is 100% Jewish and Catholic. 3 of one and 6 of the other (including Scalia, rest his soul)
I am more concerned that he has ANY connection to Boulder Colorado. And that he was educated at Columbia, Harvard, and Oxford. Those are establishment indoctrination centers and nothing good comes from them for several decades now.
No.
Are you concerned that there are Roman Catholics on the bench?
Are you concerned that most SCOTUS went to far left law schools?
You go girl :)
I HATE that saying and now have used it twice in two weeks here!!
I’m concerned that he’s already talking behind President Trump’s back, trying to denigrate him.
So hopefully something else comes up and he withdraws his nomination. He doesn’t seem conservative at all.
Really? Scalia was a Roman catholic
It's even worse. It is an Episcopalian hunt.
This whole line of inquiry is self-defeating. When so-called conservatives take up this line of inquiry, it is more self-defeating than anything the evil Soros or Podesta or their moonbat supporter's could do. It is utterly despicable.
The folks doing this deserve to live in the crony capitalist, socialist, global administrative hell that they think they are fighting.
Oh come on now
extremely concerned. He must find their positions acceptable or he wouldn’t be there.
I go to a PC-USA church as well, but my specific church is in a conservative area and most members and clergy are conservative. For example, even though PC-USA is for "gay marriage" and "gay clergy", ours is not. If Gorsuch's church was an oasis of orthodoxy in a sea of liberalism, I would not be concerned. But it sounds like it is cutting edge liberal. I generally find that people who are theologically liberal are liberal in everything else as well, and vice-versa. I just don't want another Souter.
The only thing that concerns me about Gorsuch is that he was oberwhelmly approved by Dims for a previous position. I hope he will follow, rather than interpret the Constitution.
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