Posted on 09/25/2020 3:02:07 AM PDT by Cronos
Dangerous Religious Extremist: Amy Coney Barrett, a leading candidate to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat, claims the Bible precedes the Constitution.
NBC News reports:
Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate court judge, has emerged as one of the front-runners to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, three sources told NBC News.the Hill reports
Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appeals court judge, has emerged as a front-runner to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to people familiar with the discussions.Barrett is a dangerous religious extremist who believes her religious faith comes before the law, and claims that the Bible precedes the U.S. Constitution. She was previously confirmed for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit after a controversial and contentious Senate confirmation process.President Trump signaled Saturday morning that he would move to fill the vacancy on the high court “without delay,” raising the likelihood that the Senate will try to confirm a nominee before Election Day on Nov. 3 or during a lame-duck session.
Much of the concern about Barrett’s religious extremism is documented in a report from the Alliance for Justice (AFJ). According to the report, Barrett believes that “judges should be bound by their religious faith, not the law.”
The report notes
As a judge, Barrett could be expected to put her personal beliefs ahead of the law. She wrote specifically about the duty of judges to put their faith above the law in an article entitled “Catholic Judges in Capital Cases.” Among other things, she strongly criticized Justice William Brennan’s statement about faith, in which he said that he took an oath to uphold the law, and that “there isn’t any obligation of our faith superior” to that oath. In response, Barrett wrote: “We do not defend this position as the proper response for a Catholic judge to take with respect to abortion or the death penalty.”Previously, AFJ President Nan Aron released the following statement concerning Barrett:
Amy Coney Barrett is a judicial nominee the likes of which we have rarely seen: a person who believes and has stated that judges can and should put their personal beliefs ahead of the law and Constitution when carrying out their duties. Specifically, Barrett has written that judges should put their religious faith ahead of the law in certain cases. She also has written that judges should not have to abide by precedent if they disagree with how past cases were decided. These views are so contrary to our system of democracy and justice that, in our view, they clearly disqualify her for the federal bench.Barrett, who once clerked for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, is a dangerous Catholic extremist, and a vigorous opponent of a woman’s right to an abortion. She has written extensively on the need to dismantle Roe v. Wade.
People For The American Way reports on Barrett’s deep hostility to reproductive rights, noting:
Even more frightening, Barrett belongs to a secretive, cult like Christian group called People of Praise, where women are subordinate to men. The group is straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale.
The New York Times reports:
Members of the group swear a lifelong oath of loyalty, called a covenant, to one another, and are assigned and are accountable to a personal adviser, called a “head” for men and a “handmaid” for women. The group teaches that husbands are the heads of their wives and should take authority over the family.Now that is creepy.
Bottom line: Amy Coney Barrett is a dangerous religious extremist who believes a federal judge can subvert the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the United States in order to promote her own religious agenda. If given the chance, Barrett will replace secular law with conservative Catholic dogma and bigotry. As such, she has no business serving on the Supreme Court.
This is hilarious to read - they throw everything they can to smear her
Precedes?!
I don’t get it. How is that a smear!?
Pretty sure most of the Founding Fathers recognized that God was more important than our Constitution. And that our Constitution was designed with godly principles in large part.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
They should just remove all religious discussion from any SCOTUS confirmation.
I’d support an atheist if he/she adored the Constitution and made every decision based on interpreting it strictly, as written.
The Constitution spells out that there should be no test regarding religion for government positions. Take religion out of the equation; prohibit all questions regarding faith.
She will NOT MAKE LAWS.
I thought the constitution WAS downstream from the Bible.
she certainly looks frightening and scary!
I do not .... I DO NOT ... have "religious faith"
I have a personal relationship with God as I would expect (if the conversation was "flavored" and led in a truly spiritual capacity) Judge Barrett would concur.
As long as we argue back using their words, we will lose the argument.
Judge Barrett is correct, God was here first and in fact, was the guiding Hand that wrote our constitution
Not surprisingly, I’m totally cool with her criticized positions in the article.
Is there any truth to the accusations that she won’t counter positions taken by the pope? Because that, I have serious issues with.
‘Pretty sure the WORD of GOD DOES precede the word of man.....just saying.’
which without the word of man, no one would know anything about, right...?
Wasn’t she in support of the lockdowns?
I found this on her:
“>Judge Amy Barrett ruled that the Illinois governor can enforce covid restrictions differently vis-a-vis BLM protests (ok) and Republican party gatherings (not ok)
A direct violation of the Equal Protection Clause. This is one reason why during the BLM protests looting and rioters were allowed to run amok in Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. “
I think our butts are gonna hurt more if she is picked.
“I think our butts are gonna hurt more if she is picked.”
I think you’re right. (I already have butt-hurt when it comes to her.) I hope PDJT is f**king PAYING ATTENTION!!!)
Even more frightening, Barrett belongs to a secretive, cult like Christian group called People of Praise, where women are subordinate to men. The group is straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale.
The New York Times reports:
Members of the group swear a lifelong oath of loyalty, called a covenant, to one another, and are assigned and are accountable to a personal adviser, called a “head” for men and a “handmaid” for women. The group teaches that husbands are the heads of their wives and should take authority over the family.
Now that is creepy.
Newsweek reported this and had to retract because it is not true. This is not the group she belongs to.
I totally resent the idea that judicial nominees are challenged on their faith and goaded into saying things like, “My faith will not interfere with my juris prudence, etc.” Our set of laws are founded, in part, on Judeo-Christian teachings. Period. Anyone who is NOT following some semblance of Judeo-Christian teaching is, in my view, unqualified to render any legal decisions in this country.
“Religion” (I hate that word) rightly practiced doesn’t add to one’s opinion, it informs it; governs it.
“Barrett wrote: “We do not defend this position as the proper response for a Catholic judge to take with respect to abortion or the death penalty.””
Is Barrett against the death penalty or is this merely another leftist lie?
Well, the Bible did precede the Constitution. The Bible was finalized with Paul’s writings in the first century while the Constitution was written after the Revolution of 1776 - so the Bible precedes the Constitution by around 2000 years.
She looks kind of hot.
That’s my deep intellectual comment on the subject for the day :-)
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