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Judicial Tyranny Fuels Same-Sex
Bishop O'Malley's call to arms is desperately needed in Massachusetts as that state faces a moral crisis that will ultimately result in unimaginable legal and social chaos throughout our nation. At a luncheon meeting following the Red Mass, Catholic Lawyers' Guild members listened to Judge Robert Bork describe the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's 4-3 decision to legalize same-sex marriage in that state. According to Bork, the arguments used by the four judges, "did not rise above the quality of a late-night philosophy session in a dormitory." Bork observed that, "the 4-to-3 majority decided that the judicial power is also the power to make public policy. We are no longer a government of laws, but one of four lawyers wearing robes." Judge Bork's recently published book, "Coercing Virtue," describes the ever-growing threat that judicial tyranny poses to American culture and traditional values. Bork notes in his introduction that judges constitute part of what he calls the "New Class." These are elitists who despise traditional values and who believe they should be the ruling class-not the average American citizen. Members of the New Class are not only found in the legal profession, they are present in academia, the media, and other power centers. They are aggressively anti-democratic in their beliefs and use the power of the courts to impose their secularist agenda. The New Class jurists, says Bork, "are those who decide cases in ways that have no plausible connection to the law they purport to be applying, or who stretch or even contradict the meaning of that law. They arrive at results by announcing principles that were never contemplated by those who wrote and voted for the law." In addition, these New Class judicial tyrants are now starting to refer to foreign court decisions in issuing their edicts in American cases. This is occurring with increasing frequency in U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The Court, for example, cited legal decisions from Jamaica, India, and Zimbabwe in overturning our nation's few remaining state laws against sodomy in "Lawrence v. Texas." The Court also cited wording from a United Nations treaty on racial discrimination in this same case. Judge Bork warns that if this trend continues, our nation's culture and laws will be forever changed by the decisions of foreign judges in a worldwide culture war. Do we really want our cultural traditions overturned by the decisions of an Indian or Zimbabwean judicial system? This is the direction we're headed-and this is why concerned citizens must play a role in fighting judicial tyranny-through the ballot box and by supporting legislative efforts to restrict New Class judges from imposing their secularist immorality upon the rest of us. Judge Bork believes that if the New Class jurists win, the American people will lose the fundamental freedom to govern themselves under our Constitution. In short, we will be living under an unelected judicial tyranny-not a democratic system. Visit the Traditional Values Coalition Foundation website. Traditional Values Coalition is an inter-denominational public policy organization comprising over 43,000 member churches. Posted by ThatPRGuy.com giving you access to media. Get a FREE health and life insurance quote on-line now, without talking to an agent!
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