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Well, either Cornyn isn't a student of history, or he falsely believes pitchforks, sythes and muskets are no longer able to win revolutions.
By all means, keep that deaf ear toward the populace until " some many people engage in violence".
Is that the winds of change I smell?
But I thought Intelligent Design wasn't about religion.
"It builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in violence," Cornyn said. "Certainly without any justification, but a concern that I have."
Translation into normal speech for the rest of us: "Judges had better rule the way I wish, OR ELSE."
Judge Jones seems to be seeing the "bogey man" here. In fact, the media blows up the comments of "terrorists" like Ann Coulter and Phyllis Schlafly to link them to "threats" against judges. The worst part of the story is when they bring in the judge's family murdered in Chicago last year. That was about a personal matter, nothing social or political.
If Judge Jones feels threatened or was threatened, why haven't we heard about arrests? Isn't that a crime? Or was this the work of liberal trolls who stopped short of a crime or just some people P.O.'ed with bad decisions like this one.
I think his decision stank and citing a precedent doesn't make it right. Would Judge Jones have upheld the "Plessy vs. Ferguson" precedent or perhaps the "Dred Scott" precedent? The liberal federal judges have no problem killing the Pledge of Allegiance or ruling for terror suspects at Gitmo.
Judge Jones is a protege of the "moderate" Tom Ridge. (Who raised taxes and increased spending, besides being pro abortion and claiming to be a "fiscal conservative". He even cut a deal giving the legislature automatic cost of living raises every year.) And President Bush and his buddy Ridge naturally worked out this post for Ridge's man.
I sure hope Alito and Roberts vote the right way on Roe vs. Wade or else the GOP could feel some heat.
Ho hum.... another day, another simplistic mischaraterization of Intelligent Design Theory...
It appears that public officials prefer the sheep to meekly accept whatever ruling they make. Voicing dissent must be crushed.
The nutjob of a judge is in less danger than almost anyone on the planet. I am sure that prominent ID supporters have been subjected to the same sort of thing, and no one cares. No one is up in arms. But the darling of the atheist left? Well!
Now if he were a believing Christian, a convert from Islam, in Afghanistan, I'd be concerned for his safety. For that matter, if he were merely an avowed atheist living in any Islamic country he'd require round-the-clock protection, which he wouldn't get.
DI was given the opprotunity to present their "science behind intelligent design".
Why didn't they?
Schlafly wrote less than two weeks after the decision.
"Yet this federal judge, who owes his position entirely to those voters and the president who appointed him, stuck the knife in the backs of those who brought him to the dance in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District."
I used to think that Schlafly was more savvy than this.
Did all those Evangelicals vote for W. because they wanted it taught that the hypothetical designer may be dead, as Behe testified?
"Had I ignored existing precedent," he said, "that would have been the work of an activist judge."
Exactly, as I have been saying ever since the decision in Kiztmiller. What Judge Jones did in this case is the very antithesis of "judicial activism."
In the Un-Discovery Institute's book that purports to refute the judge's decision, I wonder how many pages are devoted to the lies made under oath by some of the defendants in the case, or how much time they spend discussing the voluminous evidence presented at trial which proved that the "ID" text book "Of Pandas and People" is nothing but an old Creationist text in which the replaced the words for "Creationism" with the words "Intelligent Design" without so much as even changing definitions.
I wonder if these are from the same people that gave Paul Mirecki a beating.
Religion of Peace?
Another "Religion of Peace" strikes again....