Justice Scalia on anti-religious activism

Supreme Court Gov ^ | 7/10/05 | Supreme Court Gov

[freedom44]

From his dissent in the Kentucky ten commandments case, McCreary Co. v. ACLU:

Assuming the meaning of the Constitution ought to change according to “democratic aspirations,” why are those aspirations to be found in Justices’ notions of what the Establishment Clause ought to mean, rather than in the democratically adopted dispositions of our current society? Numerous provisions of our laws and numerous continuing practices of our people demonstrate that the government’s invocation of God is unobjectionable – including a statute enacted by Congress almost unanimously less that three years ago, stating that “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance is Constitutional. To ignore all this is not to give effect to “democratic aspirations” but to frustrate them.

[StonyBurk]

My kingdom for a Court cut fromthe same judicious cloth Antonin scalia is from. If Bush could imitate FDR in but one aspect I would Praise god in Heaven were Bush to appoint a majority to the Supreme Court of Judges who would be so compelled as to interpret the US Constitution
according to the Clear language used ,and the intent of the
men who drafted that document. Judges who would honot their Oath of Office by defending the Constitution instead of this present dark pretence that were were appointed to replace God.