Justice Kennedy thinks you all should have just resigned instead of writing a Declaration of Independence.
Posted on 10/29/2015 10:34:54 AM PDT by wagglebee
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, October 29, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy told a Harvard Law School audience that government employees with religious convictions about marriage should resign.
The Ronald Reagan appointee said on Wednesday that if a public official has a moral objection to homosexuality, he must either follow the law or quit public service.
The judge's comment came in answer to a question a student asked about government officials who disagree with the Supreme Court's decisions on gay marriage, or abortion, and if those citizens have the constitutional right to act according to their sincerely held moral beliefs.
Kennedy replied that no, they do not have the right to refuse to comply with the law.
Curiously, Kennedy cited as buttressing his point the fact that few judges resigned under the Third Reich. "How many judges, do you think, resigned in the Third Reich?" Kennedy asked, to the response of silence in the great hall. He answered his own question by raising three fingers.
At one point, his words made quitting sound noble: "Great respect, it seems to me, has to be given to people who resign rather than do something they view as morally wrong, in order to make a point."
The justice admitted that Christians who must "enforce a law that they believe is morally corrupt" face "difficult moral questions." "However," he said, "the rule of law is that, as a public official, in performing your legal duties, you are bound to enforce the law."
Responses from Christian leaders noted the irony of saying that for public employees, the moral thing to do is follow immorality. Kennedy made no mention of religious convictions as actual, universal truths.
Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver commented to LifeSiteNews, "Unjust laws should be resisted." "The history of the United States includes non-compliance, even by presidents, to immoral laws."
Staver told LifeSiteNews, "Religious freedom and conscience should be protected." In fact, Staver said, morality requires the reverse of what Kennedy advocated. "Justices or judges who disregard the Constitution and impose their own will should resign."
Gay activists were quick to applaud. The online journal The New Civil Rights Movement reported that Justice Kennedy "left no wiggle room for the 'religious accommodation' the renegade Kentucky clerks are demanding for themselves."
Kennedy is shaping up as the Brennan of this generation.
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Kennedy would have been very comfortable with being a Nazi Judge.
“We were only following orders. If you don’t like it - you should quit.”
Kennedy just proved that to become a member of the U.S. Supreme Court you have to check your brains at the door.
GMTA.
As I was reading this - I began to see the similarities between Kennedy and Freisler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Freisler
Agree. Prosecutors and judges who object to the death penalty on religious grounds do not have to prosecute or hear those cases. They recuse themselves and the work is given to those who have no moral objections.
This is also true of people who have moral objections to combat, and should also be true for abortion or gay marriage.
Congress is suppose to make laws not the courts.
I wonder what Kennedy imagines ultimately happened to Hitler’s judges?
Since the Supremes didn’t create new law, just which laws are these individuals not in compliance with?
Supreme Court justices should resign if they have political convictions as he and the others do.
Yeah because that worked out SO well for them back then.
/sarc
Let us heathens have complete control over everything.
trust me no worse than mine. I'm the king of it here on FR.
Justice Kennedy thinks you all should have just resigned instead of writing a Declaration of Independence.
Exactly! I was thinking that he’s essentially comparing himself to Hitler.
It is Kennedy that needs to resign and resign today.
Insightful, huh? Admitting that government is like that of Hitler. I hope this gets legs!
The Kennedy Klan is known for its fascist history.
Don't think for yourselves!
Don't like? Don't work for the State.
No One gives a Damn about your beliefs, they are not the same as mine (end Supreme Court Thinking)
Indeed. And there needs to be a revolution before Obama goes too far. Unless its too late - unless Obama has taken us past the point of no return.
And with idiots like Kennedy - we are all in deep (bleep).
He is not far off the mark. We are getting primed and set up for a nazi or soviet like government with very little freedoms. The only thing preventing it is the millions of firearms out there in the hands of the masses. If they were not there we would already be East Germany circa 1977.
They are working on the gun issue with each mass shooting, hoping they can garner enough public support for the outright murder of Americans who refuse to submit to a gun ban.
As for that POS Kennedy, I thought he made sure in HIS new law that people of faith were to be protected, yeah right there Heir Kennedy...
This jerk should check the hell out.
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