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.
I, for one, am looking forward to Democrats beating up on a woman for her faith.
That’s a winning political strategy right before an election, isn’t it???
Dangerous Catholic, i.e. she prays and goes to Church and believes that God is above any country, including the USA.
Dangerous, I tell you, dangerous.
Being Scalia, invited on a hunting trip, the weekend before several major cases on Obama Care and Obama laws were to be heard, thus giving the SCOTUS 4 to 4 judges, those cases dropped.... He was found with pillow over his face, which later they changed to Over his Head... That is what is dangerous, the Deep State and the CLintons....
God, on killing infants...
and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind;
Jeremiah 19:5
They would sacrifice the children to Baal for better crops, more wealth thousands of years ago.
Same today.
“I just finished college and starting my career! I can’t be weighed down with a kid!”
No she was not, that was not the issue before her. The issue before her was whether Peitzker could exempt religious gathering from the 50 person limit. The decision was unanimous that the exemption (for religious gathering) was constitutional.
YIKES
Get real the woman is strong on abortion, gun rights and immigration. She will be a stellar justice. That is why the Dems are frothing at the mouth.
The Bible did precede the Constitution but the Bible does not trump the Constitution.
Both are necessary for free people to remain free. Each protects the other.
The Framers knew that government by the people cannot have a religion and at the same time the government must not impede the people's right to religious liberty. To serve that end the Constitution protects religious beliefs from government interference.
VI.2:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land....
Amendment X:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So no, the Bible doesn’t enter into it. On the other hand, it is a huge leap of faith, as it were, to get from
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”
and
“nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
and arrive at
“States may not prohibit abortion.”
So yes, your religion does color your interpretation of those clauses. If it doesn’t, then you don’t really believe your religion.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ~ John Adams
According to Adams (and, one may fairly assume,a consensus of those involved in its drafting) the Constitution in the hands of any who are neither moral NOR religious, and you are left with an inadequate document that must be altered, changed, reduced, tossed out.
Well, yes, by about 1700 years (obviously more if you include the old testament).
I really don’t think that’s what this ignoramus meant, though, do you...
Who knows. No logic anymore. They just mean to twist whatever words they can into an attack to make Barrett look bad. This will backfire big time. Attacking a woman of faith for her faith? Just dumb.
Remember the CIA Brennan hearings? Brennan is a known Islamist, asking him about his Islamist beliefs and admiration could have saved the corrupt CIA’s reputation from becoming tarnished and dirty .A Constitutionalist must have Christian values as our Fouding Fathers did.
Right on. Please remember tommorrow is the National Day of Prayer and Repentance in DC...many Christian greats will be attending, ALL Christians are reminded to pray all day long, without ceasing.
“A Constitutionalist must have Christian values as our Fouding Fathers did.”
Ideally. But the Constitution itself says exactly the opposite.
OMG!! She believes in God. Listen for the LEFTIST heads exploding.
Unsurprisingly, there is no brain splatter.
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