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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Anthony Kennedy is a devout Roman Catholic, but that hasn't prevented him from repeatedly concurring with majority opinions that reaffirm Roe.

What do you mean by devout? Apparently his faith allows him to vote to uphold abortion. I am a member of the same churches of Christ/Christian Churches as Miers. There is no way on God's earth I or anyone teaching in our churches could vote to uphold Roe if they were devout. Apparently devout has an entirely different meaning to us.
11 posted on 10/15/2005 5:34:54 AM PDT by GarySpFc (Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
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To: GarySpFc
You see, that's precisely the problem.

The federal judiciary does not work like that.

Judges don't use the that line of reasoning when they approach a case.

A jurist doesn't say to himself, "I'm a Pentecostal, or an evangelical, so therefore I must have an expansive view of the 'free exercise' clause."

A judge who is a gun-owner won't necessarily be less susceptible to the notion of gun ownership as a collective right than one who has never touched a firearm.

It doesn't matter if someone personally finds abortion to be reprehensible, and viscerally opposes it.

If that person can not find the essential underlying defects of Roe, and explain why it is such a fundamental breach of the Constitution, then her pro-life perspective is irrelevant to the larger cause of eliminating this atrocity, or curtailing it significantly.

12 posted on 10/15/2005 5:47:29 AM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("We don't want a Supreme Court justice just like George W. Bush. We can do better.")
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