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Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. In this decision, 7 unelected judges, holding lifetime appointments, created out of thin air a constitutional right for women to kill the innocent children in their wombs. Thus far, 58 million innocent babies have been killed. The annual March for Life held in Washington DC is unique in our nation’s history. There is no other event where more than half a million people annually gather in our nation’s capital to protest a Supreme Court decision. Why is it taking so long to overturn Roe v. Wade? Many legal scholars, even those sympathetic to abortion rights, acknowledged that Roe v. Wade was not based on any precedent. “What is frightening about Roe is that this super-protected right is not inferable from the language of the Constitution, the framers’ thinking respecting the specific problem in issue, any general value derivable from the provisions they included, or the nation’s governmental structure.” — John Hart Ely, Yale Law Professor “One of the most curious things about Roe is that, behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be found.” — Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard Law Professor “As a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method, Roe borders on the indefensible. I say this as someone utterly committed to the right to choose. … Justice Blackmun’s opinion provides essentially no reasoning in support of its holding.” — Edward Lazarus, former clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun “[I]t is time to admit in public that, as an example of the practice of constitutional opinion writing, Roe is a serious disappointment. You will be hard-pressed to find a constitutional law professor, even among those who support the idea of constitutional protection for the right to choose, who will embrace the opinion itself rather than the result. This is not surprising. As a constitutional argument, Roe is barely coherent. The court pulled its fundamental right to choose more or less from the constitutional ether.” — Kermit Roosevelt, University of Pennsylvania Law Professor “Judges have no special competence, qualifications, or mandate to decide between equally compelling moral claims (as in the abortion controversy). … [C]lear governing constitutional principles … are not present [in Roe].” — Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor “[O]verturning [Roe] would be the best thing that could happen to the federal judiciary. … Thirty years after Roe, the finest constitutional minds in the country still have not been able to produce a constitutional justification for striking down restrictions on early-term abortions that is substantially more convincing than Justice Harry Blackmun’s famously artless opinion itself.” — Jeffrey Rosen, George Washington University Law Professor The fact that Pro-Life advocates still have to struggle to overturn Roe 43 years later is especially egregious when compared to how quickly the Supreme Court has reversed its decisions regarding homosexuality. In 1986, the Supreme Court held that there was no constitutional right to engage in homosexual activity (Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186). Just seventeen years later, in 2003, the Court overturned that ruling and held all anti-sodomy laws were unconstitutional (Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558). Just twelve years later, in 2015, the Court declared same-sex marriage a constitutional right (Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584, 2588). I deeply appreciate the unheralded sacrifices of the many people fighting on behalf of the unborn: those who participate in today’s March for Life; those who sacrifice their time as sidewalk counselors in front of Planned Parenthood facilities regardless of the weather, taunts from passersby, and harassment from clinic employees and the police; pregnancy help centers; respect for life committees; the many national Pro-Life organizations; and the people who pray this holocaust will end. I want to specially mention the courageous actions of young students who wear their Pro-Life t-shirts to school, often in the face of unfriendly school officials and threats of discipline. Our nation must be mindful of God’s ultimate justice as He beholds the faces of the millions of aborted children – the greatest among us – killed according to our laws. We should all tremble with fear knowing “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” |
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Philadelphia Mayor Stupidly Claims Islam Not related to Attempted Police Assassination — Betrays America’s Security
As I have been saying for over a decade, politicians of both political parties rush to the TV cameras to defend Islam as a “religion of peace” whenever there is a Muslim terrorist attack on American soil. These politicians are nothing more than fools used by Muslim propagandist to lull Americans to sleep while they take over our nation. It seems to be working with the politicians, but not the American people.
The latest example of a politician playing lapdog to the Muslim propagandists is Philadelphia’s Mayor, Jim Kenney.
Video tape shows a Muslim man, in traditional Muslim garb, later identified as Edward Archer, as he attempts to assassinate Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnet, who was sitting in his patrol car. Later Archer tells police “I follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State, and that’s why I did what I did.”
This is what the Philadelphia Mayor told TV audiences just hours after the shooting and Archer’s confession:
“In no way shape or form does anyone in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what you’ve seen on the screen.” . . . . “It is abhorrent. It is terrible and it does not represent the religion in any way, shape or form or any of its teachings.” . . . . It has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith.”
Here are just a few of the many verses from the Koran to show how violent Islam really is:
“Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.” Koran 9:5
“So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).” Koran 8:39
“Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.” Koran 9:29
“Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.” Koran 8:39
“I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.” Koran 8:12
“The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah’s enemy.” Koran 8:59
This protection of Islam and Muslims in the name of political correctness isn’t just stupid. It’s dangerous. Hiding the truth about Islam, that it is a religion of violence, puts our nation and American lives at risk. Just ask Europe.
Philadelphia is the fifth largest city in America. There are no excuses for the statements made by its Mayor. The jihadist who shot a Philadelphia police officer confessed that his actions were inspired by Islam. Most politicians have grown so drunk on the Kool-Aid of political correctness that they are willing to risk our national security and our lives to protect Islam and Muslims who would kill us in the name of Allah.
Stopping the Muslim Invasion of America
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From the Desk of Richard Thompson
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Muslims are not arriving on American shores to assimilate, but to conquer. This week, Alabama became the second state to challenge the federal Refugee Resettlement Program. But, like Texas’ suit before it, Alabama’s will not stop the influx of potentially dangerous Muslim refugees like the ones already overrunning and terrorizing Europe.
Merely filing a lawsuit asking the federal government to “consult” with them before resettling refugees gives the appearance of action, but in the long run does very little to stem the flow of refugees into the state.
I spoke with Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart and Leo Hohmann at World Net Daily about just why Alabama’s suit is insufficient. And why the Thomas More Law Center’s plan to stop the influx of Muslim refugees based upon the Tenth Amendment is the only effective way to prevent the destruction of America’s culture and Constitutional foundation and values.
I spoke with Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart and Leo Hohmann at World Net Daily about just why Alabama’s suit is insufficient. And why the Thomas More Law Center’s plan to stop the influx of Muslim refugees based upon the Tenth Amendment is the only effective way to prevent the destruction of America’s culture and Constitutional foundation and values.
The Thomas More Law Center is always battle ready to defend America. Now we stand ready to defend our nation from the threat of the Muslim Invasion disguised as Refugee Resettlement.
“A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Today, the Thomas More Law Center remembers the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. On that day, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed “a date which will live in infamy,” 2,402 Americans were killed and 1,282 were wounded. We remember and honor them today on this 77th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Please watch this dramatic video memorializing the events at Pearl Harbor.
Supreme Court’s Same Sex Marriage Decision is Judicial Tyranny and ‘A Threat to American Democracy’—Expect a Wave of Christian Persecution
Last Friday, June 26th, a committee of five un-elected lawyers ignoring the expressed will of an overwhelming majority of Americans, ruled that the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one women, which has existed for thousands of years, is unconstitutional. In the process the majority dispelled the concept “that we are a government of laws, not of men.”
Four Justices wrote stinging dissents. Justice Scalia wrote that the majority opinion is “a threat to American democracy.” Scalia went on: “This is a naked judicial claim to legislative—indeed, super-legislative—power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government…. A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy.”
READ the dissents: Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito
Of the 35 States that voted on the issue of same-sex marriage, 32 States opted to retain the traditional definition of marriage. In fact, in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Court reviewed the laws of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. In each of these states, an overwhelming majority of voters voted in favor of traditional marriage: 88% in Tennessee, 74% in Kentucky, 62% in Ohio and 59% in Michigan.
Chief Justice Roberts, destroying the majority’s legal basis for same–sex marriage, concluded, “The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court’s precedent.” He wrote, “The Constitution itself says nothing about marriage, and the Framers thereby entrusted the States with “[t]he whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife.”
Up until last Friday, since the founding of our nation, and for the last approximately 2,000 years of Christianity, across all civilizations and cultures, the definition of marriage has been the same—the union of a man and a woman.
And Bible believing Christians cannot and will not accept this illegitimate decision. Christ said:
“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.” (Matthew 19: 4-6, NASB)
The Court’s decision in this case is not the final word. It is not the same as So sayeth the Lord.
In 1857, the Supreme Court used the same substantive Due Process rationale in its Dred Scott decision to protect the rights of slaveholders to own slaves as property. As Chief Justice Roberts observed, “Dred Scott’s holding was overruled on the battlefields of the Civil War….”
Christians are born for combat, and so this decision, similar to the Courts creation of the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v Wade, will not end the debate. We must launch a well-thought out offensive to change this decision and stop America’s decline as a result of her jettisoning the Christian principles upon which this great nation was founded.
So what’s next?
In the short term we must ensure that federal and state laws are enacted that will protect the religious freedom of Christians, not only to speak out but also, to exercise their faith. But that is just the beginning. We must also begin to counter the slick, meaningless slogans used by homosexual advocates such as “marriage equality.” A million-man march on Washington may also get the Court and politicians to act.
Families are too important to the survival of our nation for Christians to retreat to their religious ghetto. Besides, homosexuals will not be satisfied until every vestige of opposition to same-sex marriage is destroyed. They have already embarked on a wave of persecution against those opposed to their agenda. It will only get worse.
Princeton law professor Robert George pointed to the increasing oppression of Christians who oppose a redefinition of marriage. He said that business owners, adoption agencies and workers in several states have already been threatened, pushed out of their industries, or forced to violate their consciences in order to operate their businesses. George pointed out that many government employees have been subjected to disciplinary action and threatened with termination for expressing their biblical views on marriage. Unquestionably there will be efforts to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church as well as other Christian organizations that teach that marriage is the union of a man and woman. And the list will continue on.
The Thomas more Law Center filed several friend of the court briefs in support of the definition of traditional marriage. It has defended the rights of Christians to speak out and act on this issue and it will continue to do so.
Supreme Court’s Same Sex Marriage Decision is Judicial Tyranny and ‘A Threat to American Democracy’—Expect a Wave of Christian Persecution
Supreme Court’s Same Sex Marriage Decision is Judicial Tyranny and ‘A Threat to American Democracy’—Expect a Wave of Christian Persecution
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