Typical conservative majoritarianism, really: meritocracy frightens us (for we get on by zeal and personality, not ability), and appointing a competent homosexual judge might show us up.Monday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said he could accept a nominee who is openly homosexual to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. On March 24, well before the announcement of Stevens’ retirement, AFTAH received this statement from Tom Minnery, Vice President of Public Policy at Focus on the Family. Minnery emphasized that the Focus clarification has been available to anyone who inquired about the controversial statements made last year by a Focus analyst to The Plum Line.
“This is not a new statement,” Minnery told AFTAH. “And we were quick to correct this mistake.”
The following is the clarification by Tom Minnery of Focus on the Family:
“It has been reported that we would not oppose any U.S. Supreme Court nominee over their ’sexual orientation.’ Our Judicial Analyst [Bruce Hausknecht] made a statement to this effect in an interview with The Plum Line. To be honest, this is one of those conversations we’d like to ‘do over.’ We can assure you that we recognize that homosexual behavior is a sin and does not reflect God’s created intent and desire for humanity. Further, we at Focus do affirm that character and moral rectitude should be key considerations in appointing members of the judiciary, especially in the case of the highest court in the land. Sexual behavior–be it heterosexual or homosexual–certainly lies at the heart of personal morality.”
Focus on the Family: No gay SCOTUS nominees allowed
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Focus on the Family: No gay SCOTUS nominees allowed
http://americansfortruth.com/news/focus ... udges.html
When the histories are written, I'll bet that the Old Right and the New Left are put down as having a lot in common and that the people in the middle will be the enemy.
- Barry Goldwater
Americans see the Establishment center as an empty, decaying void that commands neither their confidence nor their love. It was not the American worker who designed the war or our military machine. It was the establishment wise men, the academicians of the center.
- George McGovern
- Barry Goldwater
Americans see the Establishment center as an empty, decaying void that commands neither their confidence nor their love. It was not the American worker who designed the war or our military machine. It was the establishment wise men, the academicians of the center.
- George McGovern
Re: Focus on the Family: No gay SCOTUS nominees allowed
It's a logical extrapolation of their stated views. Sex outside of marriage is evil, and gay marriage is evil, ergo the only gay sex is extramarital, ergo a gay is engaged in an active, unrepentant life of sin, unless he is in the closet, in which case God forgives him because he has not given in to temptation. An unrepentant sinner should not be a Supreme Court Judge. Fear of merit doesn't come into it on this one.
(Mostly unrelated - Your daily dose of Christians ignoring the bible, since this talk of unrepentant sinners and supreme court justices brought the passage to mind:
"'But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.'" (Matt. 5:34-37, NIV)
So much for those oaths of office.)
(Mostly unrelated - Your daily dose of Christians ignoring the bible, since this talk of unrepentant sinners and supreme court justices brought the passage to mind:
"'But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.'" (Matt. 5:34-37, NIV)
So much for those oaths of office.)