Well did Roberts make that gaffe or not?
They might be up to the same old tricks again but they can't hide any more thanks to alternative news sources.
Repeat the mantra:
1. U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Clause 3 --- no religious test shall ever be required, as a qualification to any office or public trust, under the United States.
2. Durbin and the Senators took an oath to uphold the Constitution.
3. They violate their oath by asking such religious questions.
You don't have to work, if you use Durbin's info.
Turley is liberal. Durbin is liberal *and* a liar. I believe Turley: Durbin told Turley Roberts said this. But Durbin now publicly denies it.
As for Roberts, who cares? Even if he may have flubbed and said this about recusal, it was an off-the-cuff remark made during what is supposed to be an entirely off-the-record "courtesy call." It is hardly an indication that he somehow would recuse himself in any significant proportion of cases due to his religious views.
As the demoRATS think, they can make anything up whenever they want...and we are going to swallow it hook, line and sinker....not in this day and age....sounds like Ill. had best recall this man before the state is a total laugh-out.....
If any other company in America asked a question about an applicant's religious beliefs in an interview setting there would be a lawsuit slapped on the company in the blink of an eye.
Why is the US Senate exempt from the EEOC laws?
It was clear from the start that it was Durbin's staff that released the story.
I would submit that there is no such thing as a ruling that the Christian religion considers immoral.
Matthew 22:21
LINKAGE PLEASE - some snot nose just dropped that information into my blog and I mean to make them eat their lunch!
Is this what the democrats meant when they said they wanted to use the confirmation process as a means to highlight their policy differences with the Repbulicans and show the American people that they are "mainstream?"
Another Democratic red herring. Ask how many times Justice Scalia has had to recuse himself because of the same religion in matters since he arrived on the bench?
Answer: Zero.
Damn, how did Karl Rove manipulate Durbin so he'd get caught leaking a fake story to the extremist left wing LAT. Well, there's no question, a man with any honor, just the scintilla of integrity, would have to resign. Durbin will have to resign over this and Rove arranged the whole deal!
Durbin's questioning what Roberts would do if a law required doing what his church considered immoral is interesting.
What did he expect? Of course, it was a trap, and the kind that any nominee can expect from Far Left politicians whose arrogance is the only thing that exceeds their ignorance of America's founding principles.
The Left likes to claim and quote Thomas Jefferson as the final source for their counterfeit interpretation and misuse of his phrase in the letter to the Baptists, but they never use a plethora of other statements by Thomas Jefferson that do not agree with their agenda.
Some Jefferson statements which might be relevant to today's discussion are:
"All men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and... the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.",/b> --Thomas Jefferson: Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779. ME 2:302, Papers 2:546
"Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry." --Thomas Jefferson: Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779. ME 2:301, Papers 2:545
"We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776. Papers 1:546
"The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right." --Thomas Jefferson: Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779. ME 2:301, Papers 2:546
How did Hannity's staff "uncover the truth of the story"? By reading this morning's Washington Times?
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050726-121131-2535r.htm
Roberts should ask Durbin if he would avoid voting on matters of moral conscience and see what he says (stem cell research, partial birth abortion) after all, I understand they are both Roman Catholic!