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Top Ten Changes a Catholic Majority would Make to the Supreme Court [Humor]
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| 10/31/05
| Benedict
Posted on 10/31/2005 9:47:09 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
As David Bernstein points out today in this post on The Volokh Conspiracy, the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court will result in a Catholic majority on that bench. It seems timely, therefore, to speculate on the potential changes in store for that august institution:
10) Meat-less Fridays all year round in the Supreme Court cafeteria;
9) Oral arguments in Latin;
8) The bones of Chief Justice Marshall will be disinterred and placed in a glass coffin in the center of the Supreme Court bench;
7) Collections between each session of oral argument;
6) Supreme Court windows replaced with stained glass;
5) On close votes, the Justices will consult a statue of St. Thomas More. If the statue weeps, they affirm; if no tears, then they reverse.
4) Incense at the start of each session;
3) Supreme Court opinions will be deemed infallible and unreviewable by any earthly authority [Ed. - Sorry - that does not appear to be a change at all]
2) Catechism of the Catholic Church will now be "persuasive authority";
And, the number one change which a Catholic majority would make to the Supreme Court . . .
1) Wednesday night bingo!
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Just a joke everybody!
To: Unam Sanctam
LOL! Especially at the bingo!
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:05:15 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Unam Sanctam
'9) Oral arguments in Latin; '
HA!
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:05:25 PM PST
by
bitt
("..the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." Gen. Douglas MacArthur)
To: Unam Sanctam; Zacs Mom; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; Alamo-Girl; ...
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:06:03 PM PST
by
bitt
("..the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." Gen. Douglas MacArthur)
To: Unam Sanctam
How about this one?
Mea culpa, if an argument was wrong. (Don't know if it should come from the defendant or the paintiff, however.
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:06:28 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Unam Sanctam
No, #1 is:
There's a giant carving of the ten commandments as you enter the building, but everyone pretends they're not there. Oh, wait... No change there, either.
(Not to scadalize the whole RCC... I'm just a little frustrated with a liberal pastor.)
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:06:47 PM PST
by
dangus
To: Unam Sanctam
Invoke The Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel whenever an atheist enters the court. i.e. Newdow
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:07:53 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Unam Sanctam
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:10:02 PM PST
by
AZ Rangers Wifey
(What's your's is mine and what's mine is mine too!)
To: ntnychik; devolve; PhilDragoo; bitt
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:11:12 PM PST
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: Unam Sanctam
Protestants are doomed! Doomed I tell you!
:)
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:11:59 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Unam Sanctam; ntnychik; devolve; PhilDragoo; Boazo; Lady Jag
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:15:34 PM PST
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: bitt
bitt, #11 was for you too. My brains going...
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:17:38 PM PST
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: writer33
Come into the rectory, and have some of this nice Kool-Aid, you will feel better afterwards. All good Catholic children love Kool-Aid, and it's a good bargain! Kool-Aid and bingo, tartan plaid skirts, white shirts, blue knee socks and saddle shoes. Teachers that sometimes resemble penguins. Everyone will adjust, as long as your have your Kool-Aid...
Ok, just joking, happy Halloween (still in AZ for 30 more minutes) :-)
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:18:15 PM PST
by
AZ Rangers Wifey
(What's your's is mine and what's mine is mine too!)
To: AZ Rangers Wifey
It's all in the Kool-Aid.
And it's been too long since I had a mass with incense. I loved the incense masses.
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:20:18 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: writer33
My bestest memories are of Midnight Mass, and fish sticks on Friday with macaroni and cheese. That's just living folks! And a good Irish Catholic Priest to listen to you confess your "impure thoughts"...when I was young if I could not think of something to confess, it was not uncommon for me to confess to things I did not do just to be certain I did not bore the Priest, and I knew there were things that I probably deserved penance for, that would ellude me when I got in the confessional. The first time I stepped into a Protestant church I thought the floor and ground beneath it might open up and swallow me whole or the roof would cave in on me!
Ah such fond memories, our gym teacher was a nun that was retired from the Marines, she actually wore combat boots. A Marine drill instructor in a Penguin suit. Long ago and miles and many years away...the Kool-Aid and the bingo (okay and sometimes the fish sticks and macaroni and cheese) are the only things that have completely endured the time. (And I still love Midnight Mass! :-)
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:52:29 PM PST
by
AZ Rangers Wifey
(What's your's is mine and what's mine is mine too!)
To: Unam Sanctam; NYer; Alouette; Liz; sionnsar; Quix; Fruit of the Spirit; Salvation; Alamo-Girl; ...
Will Protestants still have 'standing' inside, or will we have to stand in the outer courtyard, like we did as the unwashed Gentiles in Jewish Tabernacle days? Hooooboy, second class citizens again....
;^)
clever list bump!
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posted on
10/31/2005 10:56:58 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
To: Blurblogger
Won't you come in and join us for some Kool-Aid? My momma and grandmother were always giving the neighborhood kids a snack even the little Protestant children. :-) We do like most everyone (and in my grandmother's case, I am not sure if she knew my siblings and me from the other kids, we always had a houseful of children )! There won't be a problem, I'm sure.
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posted on
10/31/2005 11:08:54 PM PST
by
AZ Rangers Wifey
(What's your's is mine and what's mine is mine too!)
To: Unam Sanctam
LOL! This former Protestant and current Catholic thinks that is HILARIOUS.
But I think Number 1 has to be that loser *confesses* to sin of errant advocacy!
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posted on
10/31/2005 11:16:45 PM PST
by
Kryptonite
(McCain, Graham, Warner, Snowe, Collins, DeWine, Chafee - put them in your sights)
To: Unam Sanctam
To replace the obsolete number three, I submit the following..
Losing a ruling from the Supreme Court can be reversed by an action of contrition. Bids start at ten million.
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posted on
10/31/2005 11:21:11 PM PST
by
kingu
(Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
To: AZ Rangers Wifey
"There won't be a problem, I'm sure."
;^)
The only "Catholic" problem would be is with false Catholics like Kerry and Kennedy...that ain't Kool-Aid in Teddy's communism goblet.
No, I didn't mean communion....
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posted on
10/31/2005 11:31:31 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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