Friday, May 01, 2015

Religious Right Serves Restraining Orders On Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and Kagan

[Just a reminder of the depths of ignorance the religious-right continues to plumb. ---Bozo]
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By: Rmuse
Tuesday, April, 28th, 2015, 10:44 am   
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A restraining, or protection, order is issued by a court to protect a person or an entity, or the general public, in dangerous situations involving domestic violence, harassment, stalking or sexual assault. Every state in America has some form of domestic violence restraining order law, and if the subject of the restraining order does something the court ordered them not to do, or refuses to do something the court ordered them to do, it is a violation of the court order and police are called to enforce the court's wishes.
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Nearly all conscious Americans comprehend that a longstanding rule is that only a court can issue a restraining order. However, like many things in 21st Century America, evangelicals refuse to accept that the rule of law applies to them any more than they believe the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Of course, an increasing number of Republican members of Congress, state legislatures, and governors cannot accept the Constitution either, so it was no great surprise that evangelicals followed the lead of two congressional Republicans and issued religious orders restraining the 'wrong' kind of Supreme Court Justices from fulfilling their duly sworn Constitutional duty.
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Within the past month, religious Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and evangelical Representative Steve King (R-IA) introduced legislation in their respective chambers of Congress to prohibit the federal judiciary from hearing or ruling on same-sex marriage cases. Since the two congressional Republicans were unsuccessful in getting their legislation passed and signed into law, the religious right took matters into its own hands and issued a reported 300,000 restraining orders against liberal Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan prohibiting them from hearing or ruling on Obergefell v. Hodges.
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The case stems from the 6th Circuit Court's decision to uphold same-sex marriage bans in Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan, and Kentucky. According to their mandate in the U.S Constitution, the justices will decide whether states are required to issue marriage licenses between two people of the same sex, and whether states are required to recognize same-sex marriage licenses from other states under that section of the pesky document Republicans and evangelical fanatics refuse to acknowledge; the 14th Amendment guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law.
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One of the pre-eminent religious arbiters of all things relating to the Supreme law of the land, president of Abiding Truth Ministries Scott Lively, has unilaterally disqualified Justices Kagan and Ginsburg from hearing or ruling on Obergefell v. Hodges because he decided "they have committed an unparalleled breach of judicial ethics by elevating the importance of their own favored political cause of gay rights above the integrity of the court and of our nation." As a typical religious hypocrite, Lively does not hold the conservatives on the High Court who attend churches preaching against homosexuality, or have been inordinately vocal in their opposition to gay rights to the same standards because something about god, bible, and traditional marriage. None of which have any relevance or impact whatsoever on the 14th Amendment or any part of the U.S. Constitution.
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