JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS
As evangelicals become more involved in politics, the abortion issue is at the forefront of many minds. Many evangelicals say something like, “I know that Bush and the GOP aren’t perfect, but I can never support a candidate who is pro-choice.”
First, let me say a wholehearted “amen!” Abortion is murder. It is infant genocide, and a shame on our culture. It is especially a shame for so many churches and denominations who endorse pro-death candidates that have abandoned the Bible long ago.
The issue here is not whether abortion is right or wrong. Clearly, it is an evil that must be stopped as soon as possible. The issue at hand is the Constitution and the power of the President to appoint Supreme Court Justices.
My good friends in the GOP reason this way.
1) Only Congress has the power to make laws, given by the Constitution.
2) Corrupt judges, who are not elected by the people, have taken this duty on themselves, especially in the “activist” courts of Earl Warren and William Rehnquist.
3) This is why we have Roe vs. Wade, abortion on demand, and the slaughter of 35 million babies since 1973.
4) If we re-elect Bush, he will nominate conservative judges who will overturn Roe vs. Wade.
The problem with this reasoning is not with the intent. All Christians want the slaughter to stop. Roe vs. Wade is legalized murder.
The larger issue concerns judicial activism. The Constitution of the United States requires that the House of Representative and the Senate are the only law-makers. The President can sign or veto laws that are passed by the Congress and Senate, but he cannot legally make laws by himself. This is the difference between our President and a dictator. All Executive Orders the President makes are therefore unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of the United States interprets the laws to see if they are constitutional. If a bill is passed by the Congress, and signed into law by the President, but the Supreme Court finds the law unconstitutional, then the bill ceases to be a law and it must be returned to the legislative branch. Judges cannot make laws. Only the Congress and Senate can make a law, provided it is signed by the President.
It is therefore unconstitutional to have a judge enact a law like Roe vs. Wade. But an override is also unconstitutional.
So, the bottom line becomes this. Conservatives don’t want liberal judges to make laws, like Roe vs. Wade. But it isn’t because they make laws, it is because they are liberal laws. The GOP encourages unconstitutionally acting judges to do things like overturn laws. Republicans support law-making, unconstitutional, conservative judges.
We all need to recall what the Constitution says, and stop rationalizing the desire for conservative, law-making courts. Any Judge that makes a law is acting unconstitutionally.
Floridians for Peroutka
As evangelicals become more involved in politics, the abortion issue is at the forefront of many minds. Many evangelicals say something like, “I know that Bush and the GOP aren’t perfect, but I can never support a candidate who is pro-choice.”
First, let me say a wholehearted “amen!” Abortion is murder. It is infant genocide, and a shame on our culture. It is especially a shame for so many churches and denominations who endorse pro-death candidates that have abandoned the Bible long ago.
The issue here is not whether abortion is right or wrong. Clearly, it is an evil that must be stopped as soon as possible. The issue at hand is the Constitution and the power of the President to appoint Supreme Court Justices.
My good friends in the GOP reason this way.
1) Only Congress has the power to make laws, given by the Constitution.
2) Corrupt judges, who are not elected by the people, have taken this duty on themselves, especially in the “activist” courts of Earl Warren and William Rehnquist.
3) This is why we have Roe vs. Wade, abortion on demand, and the slaughter of 35 million babies since 1973.
4) If we re-elect Bush, he will nominate conservative judges who will overturn Roe vs. Wade.
The problem with this reasoning is not with the intent. All Christians want the slaughter to stop. Roe vs. Wade is legalized murder.
The larger issue concerns judicial activism. The Constitution of the United States requires that the House of Representative and the Senate are the only law-makers. The President can sign or veto laws that are passed by the Congress and Senate, but he cannot legally make laws by himself. This is the difference between our President and a dictator. All Executive Orders the President makes are therefore unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of the United States interprets the laws to see if they are constitutional. If a bill is passed by the Congress, and signed into law by the President, but the Supreme Court finds the law unconstitutional, then the bill ceases to be a law and it must be returned to the legislative branch. Judges cannot make laws. Only the Congress and Senate can make a law, provided it is signed by the President.
It is therefore unconstitutional to have a judge enact a law like Roe vs. Wade. But an override is also unconstitutional.
So, the bottom line becomes this. Conservatives don’t want liberal judges to make laws, like Roe vs. Wade. But it isn’t because they make laws, it is because they are liberal laws. The GOP encourages unconstitutionally acting judges to do things like overturn laws. Republicans support law-making, unconstitutional, conservative judges.
We all need to recall what the Constitution says, and stop rationalizing the desire for conservative, law-making courts. Any Judge that makes a law is acting unconstitutionally.
Floridians for Peroutka
