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Friday, August 23, 2013

Losing the Battle. Winning…

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 22nd, 2013
My friends, the case of Elane Photography v. Willock has been decided. As I tell you regularly, you will be made to care.
The case centered around Elaine Huguenin, a Christian in New Mexico who owned a photography business. She was asked to provide services to a gay commitment ceremony between two lesbians, Vanessa Willock and her partner. Ms. Huguenin and her husband declined to provide their services because they are Christians and the orthodox tenets of their faith tell them that marriage is between a man and a woman. See e.g. Matthew 19.
Vanessa Willock, in an act of spite and retribution, decided to file a discrimination claim and punish Mrs. Huguenin for adhering to her religious beliefs. In a very profound decision, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Christians, Muslims, Orthodox Jews, and others must surrender the faithful practice of their religion in the name of citizenship....... Note that the tolerance is one way. In the name of tolerance, Mrs. Huguenin can be compelled by state power on pain of punishment to provide her services to Ms. Willock against Mrs. Huguenin’s several thousand year old orthodox religious beliefs, but Ms. Willock is under no obligation to simply tolerate those who disagree with her and find someone who is happy to provide the service.....ToRead More...
My Take - The battle against traditions, traditional values and traditional wisdom in favor of conventional wisdom, i.e., - the philosophical flavor of the day - is reaching its apex. This can't go on. As for judges such Justice Richard Bosson, and those at the New Mexico Supreme Court; it’s high time these people were allowed to go home and stop practicing public insanity. If there ever was an argument for the end of life time appointments to courts ....this is it. I wonder where he studied law and history. He didn’t get either right. How do idiots get these jobs? The fact of the matter is that most judges in the federal judiciary are nothing more than political hacks. I would have to believe this is true across the board. The difference is in most state and local jurisdictions those judges can be replaced. The founding fathers understood that the Congress had the responsibility to set the jurisdiction of the federal courts, not the courts themselves. As a result the courts have decided they.....the federal judiciary will decide where they jurisdiction lies.....what the Constitution says.....and what they think it should mean. Clearly it's time to end this insanity and eliminate life time appointments by setting limits for their term of service and insist on an Constitutional amendment giving Congress the right and responsibility to overturn judgments that are nothing more than legislation from the bench. Judicial activism is a deadly disease infecting the legal system destroying the balance of power conceived of by the founding fathers.
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