First we're told its unconstitutional to say the Pledge Of Alligence. Then the GOP controlled House votes for a hate crime bill favoring homosexuals. And finally, partial birth abortion is ruled a right and proper act.
A bad day for freedom and liberty.
The hate crime bill doesn't bother me quite so much. After all, while I think it is stupid to take intent into account when determining how bad a crime is, at least it still only applies to people who deserve to be punished -- and if you beat up someone I'm not going to feel too bad if you get MORE time because you beat up a homosexual.
Its the laws that require people who believe homosexuality is evil to accept it that gall me.
Just about every partial-birth abortion bill has been struck down, because most don't include an exception for the health of the mother (the argument being that there is no medical problem a mother could have which would make a partial-birth abortion better for her than other options).
Virginia had it's PBA bill struck down earlier. We have known that all the PBA bills were awaiting Supreme Court review.
The democrats hope to keep O'Conner on the court long enough to hear this case and rule on it. Even if she was gone, because of the previous Supreme Court case, all the underlying courts have ruled against the bills, so a 4-4 tie won't help. We need to get a replacement for O'Conner on the bench before the case.
The Dems are also trying to get nominees to say what they would do about abortion, so that later they can force the pro-life justices to recuse themselves from cases involving abortion.