Torquemada's Twin??
Well, well, well ... dear old Shrub has decided that of all the possible candidates for O'Connor's Supreme Court seat, the absolutely best candidate for the job is Harriet Miers. Considering the want ad I placed for a justice before the Roberts nomination, it'll surprise no one to learn that I'm rather underwhelmed by his choice. I'd rather see someone like Janice Rogers Brown get the job, despite the fact that the socialists would probably stonewall that nomination until at least 2020. However, after I read the following quote from James Dobson, president of the christo-fascist group Focus on the Family, I realized just how dangerous old Harriet could possibly be:
"What did Karl Rove say to me that I knew on Monday that I couldn't reveal? Well, it's what we all know now, that Harriet Miers is an evangelical Christian, that she is from a very conservative church, which is almost universally pro-life..."
If two words should ever disqualify someone from sitting on the bench, they should be "evangelical Christian". Why? Because the very essence of being an evangelical Christian is a wholesale rejection of rationality and objectivity in favor of faith. Evangelical Christians, my friends, are the folks who put a white lab coat on creationism and call it "Intelligent Design". Evangelical Christians are the folks who reject the mountains of evidence we have for evolution in favor of the biblical account of creation. Evangelical Christians live to censor and control what you can see and read. Evangelical Christians don't give a damn what happens to a child once it exits the womb, but they'll blow up your clinic to "save" a fetus. These are not reasonable people with a different point of view. These are the American Taliban -- religious zealots whose world view never grew much beyond the Dark Ages -- and they're after the whole ball of wax. They don't want equal time -- they want all the time. They are relentless, they are single-minded, and they are very, very dangerous to liberty. They don't want to share power -- they want to use it to force everyone to live according to the laws of their faith.
And that's what old Shrub asking us to do: accept this woman based upon faith in his judgement and not much else. In other words, we're supposed to believe that one deluded religious fanatic is going to put another deluded religious fanatic on the bench of the highest court in the land, but somehow she'll magically look beyond her brain-numbing religious convictions and impartially judge cases based solely upon the letter and spirit of the Constitution.
Sure ... and Iraq will blossom into a model democracy within the next 2 years .....
"What did Karl Rove say to me that I knew on Monday that I couldn't reveal? Well, it's what we all know now, that Harriet Miers is an evangelical Christian, that she is from a very conservative church, which is almost universally pro-life..."
If two words should ever disqualify someone from sitting on the bench, they should be "evangelical Christian". Why? Because the very essence of being an evangelical Christian is a wholesale rejection of rationality and objectivity in favor of faith. Evangelical Christians, my friends, are the folks who put a white lab coat on creationism and call it "Intelligent Design". Evangelical Christians are the folks who reject the mountains of evidence we have for evolution in favor of the biblical account of creation. Evangelical Christians live to censor and control what you can see and read. Evangelical Christians don't give a damn what happens to a child once it exits the womb, but they'll blow up your clinic to "save" a fetus. These are not reasonable people with a different point of view. These are the American Taliban -- religious zealots whose world view never grew much beyond the Dark Ages -- and they're after the whole ball of wax. They don't want equal time -- they want all the time. They are relentless, they are single-minded, and they are very, very dangerous to liberty. They don't want to share power -- they want to use it to force everyone to live according to the laws of their faith.
And that's what old Shrub asking us to do: accept this woman based upon faith in his judgement and not much else. In other words, we're supposed to believe that one deluded religious fanatic is going to put another deluded religious fanatic on the bench of the highest court in the land, but somehow she'll magically look beyond her brain-numbing religious convictions and impartially judge cases based solely upon the letter and spirit of the Constitution.
Sure ... and Iraq will blossom into a model democracy within the next 2 years .....
posted by DrJDG @ 11:08
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