Then there are others who've been on the road to stop these activist jurist who are giving Judge Roberts a thumbs up. Taking our country and our courts back...we're on the road...Thank You President Bush.
I'm giving John Roberts the benefit of the doubt. He certainly sounds like a good fellow, so I'm supporting his nomination and predicting that he'll be a solid constitutionalist.
But if he is another Souter or O'Connor, or even another Kennedy, I think it'll be an utter catastrophe for the Republican Party. A society can reach a tipping point beyond which recovery is impossible. Europe and Canada have likely passed that tipping point. we haven't yet reached it, but unless we reign in the courts, we will reach it.
If John Roberts fails us, then we could see a mass exodus of Christians from the political realm. Several commentators, such as Paul Weyrich and Orson Scott Card, have predicted such a thing as being possible. If Supreme Court Justice John Roberts turns out to be just another "Republican" who votes with the court's leftist block, Christian Americans may simply decide that victory within the political realm is no longer possible. They'll simply withdraw, forming relationships and ties with their fellow Christians through their churches and private institutions, and abandoning voting as pointless.
Now, some may ask, what about other issues? Even if the Supreme Court has given (or is going to give) the entire culture over to the ultra-left on issues ranging from abortion to gay "marriage" to voluntary prayer to Nativity scenes, surely Christians will still want to vote for Republicans for economic reasons and to support the war on terror?
Not necessarily. First of all, a socially liberal culture makes fiscal conservatism mostly impossible. We know that from the experience of Holland and the Scandinavian countries. One of the reasons the left pushes social liberalism so hard is that victory in that realm all but assures that victory in the economic realm will fall easily into place. Imagine ttying to convince a society awash in porn, abortion, and homosexuality that the best economic system is one where everyone is economically responsible for himself. Can't be done. Social liberalism breeds dependency, weakness, and a plethora of social problems (absent fathers, STDs, women screaming for subsidized daycare) that inevitably bolster Socialism.
Well then, how about the war on terror? Won't Christians still vote Republican to keep the sissified Democrats from capitulating to the enemy? Ostensibly, that's a good argument. But will Christians in the long run defend a decadent society against Muslims? It's one thing to defend Christendom against Islam. It's another thing entirely to defend a society that has declared sociological war on Christianity against Islam. One of the reasons Europe is so impotent in fighting against Islamic aggression and terror is that in most of Europe Christianity is all but dead.
Remember, once the left succeeds in controlling the culture, they won't stop there. They'll feel the need to rewrite history, to eradicate every remaining remnant of our Judeo-Christian heritage from our collective memory. We see that in Europe, where the EU constitution forbade any mention of God, and where a devout Catholic was recently disqualified from holding an EU judgeship. In Canada, there's now open discussion of putting churches under government control, forcing them to ordain women, perform gay marriages, etc. or be closed down. Think that can't happen here? Think Chuckie Schumer & Teddy Kennedy wouldn't "go that far"? Ha!
The left won't fight to defend it's own liberalism against Islam. Why should anyone think Christians will fight once they have nothing outside the spiritual realm to fight for?
Social liberalism is societal death. Pray that John Roberts keeps us from going over the precipice.