Tag Archives: Samuel Alito
The Electoral College Debate
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, seeking to represent New York's 14th Congressional District, has called for the abolition of the Electoral College. Her argument came on the heels of the Senate's confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. She was lamenting the fact that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, nominated by George W. Bush, and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, nominated by Donald Trump, were court appointments made by presidents who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College vote.
Posted in Federal
Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Brett Kavanaugh, Communist Party, Donald Trump, Edmund Randolph, Electoral College, George W. Bush, H.L. Mencken, Hillary Clinton, James Madison, John Adams, John Roberts, Julia Ward Howe, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Vladimir Lenin
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Relief from Onerous HHS Mandate Restores Religious Liberty
Last week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will exempt employers who have a faith-based or moral-based objection to providing contraceptives, including drugs that can cause abortions. This is important action to restore religious liberties that were stripped away in the Obamacare HHS mandate.
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Conestoga Wood Specialties, Donald Trump, HHS Mandate, Hobby Lobby, Little Sisters of the Poor, Paul Weber, Randall Wenger, Samuel Alito
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Should the Government Force Some Religious Americans to Violate Their Beliefs About Marriage?
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of gay marriage, a question arises: Should we protect the rights of Orthodox Jews, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, Latter-Day Saints and Muslims who believe that marriage is a union of husband and wife? Two bills recently introduced in Congress show diverging answers. One seeks to promote tolerance and peaceful coexistence; the other adds fuel to a culture war by treating that traditional belief as racism.
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Cory Booker, David Cicilline, Equality Act, First Amendment Defense Act, General Donald Verrilli, Human Rights Campaign, Jeff Merkley, Mark Oppenheimer, Samuel Alito, Tammy Baldwin
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Immediate Calls for the Further Unraveling of Marriage
One day after the [Obergerfell v. Hodges] ruling, I received a press release from Pro-Polygamy.com one of the largest Polygamy groups east of the Mississippi, located in Maine. Their slogan is “Polygamy: The Next Civil Rights Battle.” Last Sunday they followed up with another release of an editorial. Both items complain, “all that Kennedy declared about the importance of marriage to those who choose same sex marriage (SSM) equally applies to others who choose unrelated consenting adult polygamy (UCAP).”
Mark Henkle of Pro-Polygamy states, “for UCAPs, only one obstacle to freedom remains to be overcome – …
Posted in Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Allen West, John Roberts, Mark Henkle, plural marriage, polyamory, polygamy, Same-sex marriage, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS
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What the Gay-Marriage Ruling Means for Education
Like fascists, Communists, and boy-band producers, the American Left has always believed it could fine-tune human nature if it could only “get ’em while they’re young.” That’s why the Left works so hard to impose its will on schools and universities. As John Dewey, America’s high priest of educational progressivism, explained in 1897, the student must “emerge from his original narrowness” in order “to conceive of himself” as a cog in the larger social order.
Posted in Education
Tagged Anthony Kennedy, Bob Jones University, Chronicle of Higher Education, John Dewey, Obergefell v. Hodges, Samuel Alito, Shane Windmeyer
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Christian Universities Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status If SCOTUS Rules In Favor of Marriage Redefinition
U.S. Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, addressed concerns that faith-based schools and institutions would be at risk of losing their tax-exempt status for upholding their biblical belief of traditional marriage if the U.S. Supreme Court delivers a pro-gay marriage ruling this month.
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Donald Verrilli, Dr. Jerry Johnson, Dr. Keith Wiebe, Dr. Samuel Oliver, Mike Lee, Samuel Alito
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Right … Sort of
While reams have already been penned examining the implications of last week’s Hobby Lobby decision, most of what’s been written, particularly in the liberal press, has missed the point entirely.
Though I’m mildly pleased that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is not quite ready to take gasoline to both the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), signed into law by Bill Clinton, a liberal, in 1993, I am alarmed, and so too should you be, that only 56 percent of our sitting SCOTUS justices are still willing to give the U.S. Constitution a modicum …
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Anthony Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Hobby Lobby, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito
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Court Rules Marriage Must Be Redefined Under 14th Amendment. Why That’s Wrong.
This week the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important ruling on Utah’s marriage amendment. This is the first time a circuit court has ruled on marriage since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) this time last year. In a 2-1 split decision, the 10th circuit ruled that Utah’s marriage amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman violates the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Fourteenth Amendment, John Roberts, Judge Paul Kelly, Marriage, Samuel Alito
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Marriage: Where Do We Go From Here?
In the media’s portrayal, people defending marriage as the union of a man and woman have been getting routed ever since the U.S. Supreme Court decision last June — if not before. They point to a string of lower-court rulings striking down state marriage amendments and to public-opinion polling, especially of my peers in the Millennial generation. Many also point to the forced resignation of Brendan Eich and the defeat of Arizona’s religious-liberty bill.
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Brendan Eich, John Roberts, Jonathan Rauch, Robby George, Roger Ailes, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Sherif Girgis
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A Call to Martyrdom
Sudden as it seems to some, the Supreme Court’s endorsement of gay marriage in Windsor was a long time in coming. In cultural terms, of course, it is the fruit of fifty years of sexual liberation with all its attendant institutional, technological, and psychological shifts.
Posted in Sexuality
Tagged H. Jefferson Powell, Samuel Alito, William Brennan
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