Today in Supreme Court History: June 27, 2005

6/27/2005: McCreary County, Kentucky v. ACLU and Van Orden v. Perry are decided.

 

Comments

[DaivdBehar]

Did you ever listen to a religious broadcast? The preacher makes a point. He cites a Bible verse to support it. That is an argument by authority. It is a pernicious fallacy. Historically, it has been catastrophic for entire nations. Ultimately, the argument is, I have the gun to your head, so I am right.

https://freemansperspective.com/fallacy-13-the-argument-from-authority/

The lawyer reliance on precedent is the same. You stinking lawyers are no better than the TV preacher. Instead of doing the hard work to test and to validated your doctrines, you just use the gun to our heads, you little tyrannical traitors to our country.

All non-validated doctrines violate the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause. All citations of precedent do that. They are invalid garbage used to make hideous decisions about people. Most of the time, the decisions are wrong. They do not work.

[Queen Amalthea]

The Mental Meanderings of Mayor Mc'nutty, folks!

[DaivdBehar]

That is a strange statement from someone in denial about the chromosomal genome of every human cell of its body.

[Dan Schiavetta]

To me, he's Mayor Comment Hidden Because This User Is Muted.

[Dan Schiavetta]

“the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists“

Scalia in dissent

[Queen Amalthea]

FYIGM is a pillar of modern conservative thought.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

That is part of the explanation of why conservatism is (and has been) crumbling in America, bested by the liberal-libertarian mainstream in the modern marketplace of ideas.

For a summer toast to reason and progress, I propose a wheat beer. Because this is American progress, set aside the Wittekerke and reach for a Bell's Oberon, a fine example of America's handiwork on the foundation of witbier and hefeweizen.

[Queen Amalthea]

To the contrary, FYIGM is almost always bound to be viable as long as you identify a group large enough to feel like they have something that others don't that will be protected by that philosophy. It's a shame, but there it is.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Indeed.

How many avowed atheists or polytheists (such as Hindus) have been elected to public office in this country?

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

"How many avowed atheists or polytheists (such as Hindus) have been elected to public office in this country?"

At the pace at which organized religion's popularity is declining in modern America, this question will soon seem as quaint as''how many Blacks are in the baseball hall of fame?'

Choose reason. Every time. Be an adult.

Or, at least, please try.

[DaivdBehar]

Queenie. Your comment is just ignorant garbage. Tell us the pagan rites you engaged in to celebrate PRIDE.

[Dilan Esper]

One interesting thing Scalia says in that dissent is, after going through the various public invocations of religious superstition by the framers of this country, Scalia says "Nor have the views of our people on this matter significantly changed."

They are now starting to. America is becoming more and more secular, and the number of people walking around with Scalia's awful and untrue religious beliefs- i.e., believing that our Creator is obsessed with whether your jizz lands outside or inside of a vaginal canal- has gotten to the point of a tiny rounding error.

Scalia had a real self confidence in his dissents and concurrences in religion cases, a sense of "you pointy headed judges might not like it, but the people are with me". The people are no longer with Scalia.

[Dan Schiavetta]

And that's very good news.