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"There is a higher tribunal than the United States Supreme Court. There is the Judge of all the earth."
"[The Lawrence vs. Texas decision] is a major wake-up call. This is a 9/11, major wake-up call that the enemy is at our doorsteps."
"The implications for other sexual crimes is unmistakable. If the state doesn't have even a legitimate interest in criminalizing sodomy ... how can the state continue to regulate against group sexual encounters, sadomasochism, sex between brothers and sisters, sex with animals and sex with corpses?"
Sex between consenting adults; sex in the countryside; sex in the city; and of course, same-sex marriage. The "S" word is driving the latest round of right wing Supreme Court bashing. While the Court's ruling on affirmative action pissed off a number of right wing groups, no matter when you shake it out it's really all about the sex - gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender sex. Recently, the editors over at William F. Buckley's National Review claimed that the Court had taken a decidedly left turn. First, claimed NR, the Court wrote "'diversity' into the Constitution" - referring to the Court's decision on affirmative action - and then the justices following it up with a decision "on sodomy laws [Lawrence vs. Texas] that called into question its willingness to tolerate any state laws based on traditional understandings of sexual morality." National Review: "At this point it takes real blindness to deny that the Court rules us and, on emotionally charged policy issues, rules us in accord with liberal sensibilities." Because of the failure of Republicans to stand firmly behind a conservative legislative agenda, "a constitutional amendment [against gay marriage] appears to be necessary." Even more necessary is rallying behind real conservatives and replacing liberal Rep. Senator Arlen Spector with Pat Toomey would be a good start, National Review argues. In what appears to be an "I told you this would happen" column for USA Today, Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania) declares that the ultimate outcome of the court's anti-sodomy ruling "could be the legalization of homosexual marriage." Sen. Santorum concludes his piece by "hoping elected leaders will rally behind the effort to defend the legal status of marriage from a non-elected group of justices, and I urge you to join those elected leaders in this vital case." In a recent column at NewsWithViews.com headlined "Impeach Those Black-Robed Renegade Judges," Lon Mabon, chairman of the Oregon Citizens Alliance, a long-time anti-gay outfit that has sponsored numerous anti-gay statewide initiatives, writes: "No other institution has single-handedly done more to hurt and destroy this country than the Judiciary…. There is only one way to correct the problem in the court system of our country. Every time one of these renegade black-robed judges violates the Constitution, he or she should immediately be thrown out of office." Robertson's hit list for God
"I don't care which three, I mean as long as the three conservatives stay on,'' Robertson told reporters after an event at Regent University, which he leads as president and chancellor. "There's six liberals, so it's up to the Lord." Robertson's letter announced the launching of Operation Supreme Court Freedom. "[T]here is a higher tribunal than the United States Supreme Court," Robertson wrote. "There is the Judge of all the earth. We must earnestly come before Him now and cry out for redress of our grievances. He loves America as much as we do, and He does not wish to destroy it. But no culture has ever endured which has turned openly to homosexuality. And no society has ever been spared the wrath of God which has been guilty of slaughtering tens of millions of the innocent." People For the American Way Foundation President Ralph G. Neas pointed out that "Pat Robertson has a long list of people he holds responsible for leading the nation to destruction. In the past, his list has included everyone from feminists to Harry Potter. Now the Supreme Court has landed at the top of Robertson's list for a ruling that most fair-minded Americans believe reflects the principles of common sense, fairness, and basic respect for privacy." At the CBN Web site, you can "pledge to pray for the Supreme Court" and you'll receive a free booklet called Operation Supreme Court Freedom: Praying for the Future of America's Highest Court. Newsday columnist Sheryl McCarthy recently wrote that Robertson had finally gone over the edge," with his Supreme Court payer. I'm going to disagree slightly with her assessment. In reality, it would take too many column inches to document just how far "over the edge" Robertson has been for more than two decades. The serious Robertson edge-watcher should read Robert Boston's terrific 1996 book on Robertson called The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition. The moderate edge-watcher can check out a section of the Web site put together by the Humanist Society of Gainesville called Quotes from the Religious Right http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/quotes.html for a passel of Pat's quotes, and Positive Atheism's Big Scary List of Pat Robertson Quotations http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/revpat.htm |
Pat Robertson has gone apoplectic since the Supreme Court ruled againt sodomy bans in the United States 
Pat Robertson is praying for three of the Supreme Court justices to step down, could Sandra Day O'Connor be most likely to resign?