Posted on 10/09/2020 4:33:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Toward the end of Vice President Mike Pence's resounding defeat of Sen. Kamala Harris in Wednesday night's vice presidential debate, the two officials tussled on the pending Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett and the despicable deluge of anti-Catholic bigotry her nomination has unleashed. Harris, one of the leading arsonists during the well-orchestrated 2018 character assassination of then-Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, tried to mollify wary voters in advance of Barrett's own impending confirmation hearings. "Joe Biden and I are both people of faith," Harris hectored, "and it's insulting to suggest that we would knock anyone for their faith."
Perhaps Biden and Harris are privately religious; perhaps they are not. It would be rather uncouth to aimlessly speculate as to the personal relationship each has with the Creator. But it is entirely fair game to review their historical records, their past statements and their present platform in order to preview what stances their prospective administration would take on matters pertaining to religious liberty. By any remotely fair standard, a Biden-Harris administration would represent a grievous setback for the constitutionally enshrined religious liberty of all Americans.
At a theoretical level, it has never been clearer that progressivism, the (misnamed) pseudo-intellectual tail that wags the Democratic Party dog, despises religiosity. Modern leftists, political inheritors of Karl Marx's infamous "opiate of the masses" broadside against the Judeo-Christian tradition, are wont to view religion as an atavistic roadblock to full human "enlightenment." They recoil at the notion that an intelligent person can actually believe biblical truth -- can actually believe in the divinity of Scripture.
Practically, card-carrying progressives tout religion -- anchored as it is in the family and communitarian institutions, such as churches and synagogues -- as a destructive hindrance to their political goals of radical autonomy, an expanded welfare state and the ultimate dissolution of the traditional nation-state in favor of global governance. Scratch a Sen. Bernie Sanders supporter enough and you'll assuredly hear such nostrums espoused. On the 21st-century left, such claptrap rules the roost.
A Biden-Harris ticket would support nationally enshrined taxpayer-funded on-demand abortion throughout the entire gestational cycle. Biden, who once pretended to follow the late Mario Cuomo in the Kabuki theater that is, "I'm personally pro-life but support a woman's right to choose," went so far this election cycle as to disavow his decades-long support of the Hyde Amendment -- the longstanding federal ban on taxpayer subsidization of that most grisly snuffing out of unborn human life. Harris has been vocal about her so-called Reproductive Rights Act, which would flip federalism on its head and call for Justice Department "preclearance" before any state-level abortion restriction might be enforced. We have come a long -- and murderous -- way from the Court's decrees in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which, while lawless, at least feigned interest in fetal health.
A Biden-Harris administration would be a disaster for conscience protection. They would follow the lead of Barack Obama, who shamefully took a convent of nuns to court for years to try to coerce them to violate their faith and subsidize abortifacients, and aggressively prosecute men and women of faith -- the First Amendment and relevant statutory law, such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, notwithstanding. Lamentable ordeals like the legal travails of Colorado baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, would become ubiquitous. Discriminate, disparate targeting of religious Americans, recently previewed by the noxious COVID-19 scapegoating of the nation's largest Jewish community by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, offer a harrowing preview of what could be to come.
A Biden-Harris administration would also stack the federal judiciary -- at the level of both the Supreme Court and the lower courts -- with jurists deeply hostile to conscience rights and deeply committed to the progressive political agenda. Religious liberty has, for years, been a relatively rare bastion of conservative jurisprudential success; witness, for example, the Obama administration's embarrassing 9-0 defeat in the 2012 "ministerial exception" case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Biden and Harris are deliberately hiding from the masses any list of possible Supreme Court nominees, and the very nature of that cowardly dissemblance belies the notion that their nominees would be anything other than radical. The blunt truth is that Biden's potential nominees to the (likely "packed") Court, such as Pamela Karlan, would be well to the left of Obama's own reliably liberal nominees.
The Trump administration, despite the morally checkered past of the president himself, has been a deeply loyal and committed friend of religious and traditionalist Americans. It would truly be a shame for that progress -- actual progress, in contrast to the false gods of "progressivism" -- to now be squandered.
Corrected it.
Beat me to the punch.
I could see Harris delivering a huge blow.
Morning coffee quick-commenting #8^)
ISWYDT ;)
Kammy certainly took some liberties with Willie.
"Whoso biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." (2 John 11)
And casting a vote for baby murdering, fag promoting, Christ hating political "leaders" is definitely bidding them "God speed." That's why one cannot be Christian and vote for the party of perversion and death. That also explains why RATs hate Christ, viz. because Christ denounces their most prized platforms.
400 years ago one of my Quaker ancestors got a beat down and was thrown in jail in Salem, Mass., for not giving up on his version of Christianity. He wanted to believe differently than what the government told him to do. Beatings continued there and in Boston but he did not give in. The family later moved to the Quaker settlements in the Carolinas. I’m not sure if he survived to move with them or died in prison.
Anyway ... the old ones went through a lot to give us this country and our liberties and we should not let our freedomes slip away.
A Biden-Harris administration would render a deep blow to any true normalcy in American life. Our Constitution would be torn in shreds. Our nation could not survive as it was designed & I’m sure our forefathers recognized this when our Constitution was written. Ruth Ginsburg should not have died in office, but should have earlier been impeached as she did not stick to her oath of office to “defend & uphold” the Constitution & it should be the same for any other other official who fails to uphold & defend our Constitution. It’s the law; what’s wrong with applying & enforcing it?
Isn’t that what the rats want?
Oh, I am convinced of far more than that. With the way the most radical people in the Commu-Rat party act, they’ll settle for nothing less than shutting down churches permanently. I wouldn’t be surprised if they went as far as clamoring for the government to open re-education camps to “take care of” people who are a “danger to humanity”, aka Bible-believing Christian’s. You know what that means.
So the DNC is issuing a platform to demonstrate their ardently-held beliefs
which value the sanctity of life, that is to say, "some lives," and are proposing:
<><> assisted suicide for movie stars,
<><> mercy killing of celebrities,
<><> late term (VERY late term) abortions for movie moguls.
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