Presidential Election and the Supreme Court: 'New-Rights' vs. Authentic Human Rights On the Ballot

10/4/2012

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there is a "new-right" to not only engage in homosexual sexual practices and live together, which has always existed in societies, but to have that lifestyle given an equivalent legal status to marriage which is then enforced by the police power of the State.

There is a growing misuse of the Police Power to enforce these counterfeit "new-rights" with an iron hand. It is ominous. There is a propaganda effort aimed at those who insist on the existence of a Natural Law. They are dismissed as taking a "religious" position which should be censored, or at least confined to the four walls of a Church. This sophistry is used to confuse people concerning the reasonableness of the Natural Law position.

As we approach the coming Presidential election we must ask where these two candidates stand on human rights and where they think such rights come from. Are they conferred by the government and subject to change? Or, are they endowed by a Creator and inalienable? Here we need to remove beyond the rhetoric and look to their positions. What do these candidates mean when they use the word rights? Are they speaking of true rights or "new-rights".

This has serious implications on how the next person to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will govern on many fronts. One aspect of that governance, one which is not being discussed mush, is the next President's choice of as many as four future Supreme Court Justices. There are four Justices who in their seventies, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer.

The Anti-Right to Life decisions of Roe and Doe are perennial reminders of why the choice of Supreme Court Justices matters. This is one of the most important aspects of the power of the Presidency. The majority opinion in Roe and Doe reached into what that Court called the "penumbra" of the Constitution and manufactured a "new-right", producing an indefensible judicial holding and unleashing license masquerading as liberty.

By Judicial Fiat the Roe Court "removed" the Right to Life from millions of our fellow human persons and first neighbors in the first home of the womb. They placed the Police Power of the State behind protecting their killers. Roe was grounded in faulty history, relied upon disproven junk "science" and rejected both the Natural Law and the Equal protection Clause of the US Constitution.

The current Supreme Court has marriage, the role of parents in the education of their children, religious and economic liberty - and many other matters which could determine the future of freedom on its docket. This fact alone should bring every Pro-Life, Family and Freedom American to the ballot box on November 6, 2012. 'New-Rights' and the Future of Authentic Human Rights Is On the Ballot. Don't buy the nonsense that this election doesn't matter. It does - and we are responsible for our choice.

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Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for January 2013
General Intention: The Faith of Christians. That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness joyfully to the gift of faith in him.
Missionary Intention: Middle Eastern Christians. That the Christian communities of the Middle East, often discriminated against, may receive from the Holy Spirit the strength of fidelity and perseverance.

Keywords: Right to Life, pro-Life, pro-Choice, Supreme Court, Religious Liberty, Freedom, culture war, marriage equality, human rights campaign, Marriage, abortion, Romney, Obama, Biden, Ryan, Deacon Keith Fournier

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Tom McGuire
8 months ago
Deacon Fournier thanks for referring me to this article; it is far superior to the articles on Election Countdown. Rob's comment on this article is an important one. Catholic Social Doctrine, with its emphasis on Natural Law, is the guide for Catholics to enter into dialogue with others. The problem, Catholics say Natural Law is knowable by reasonable people, but it is not known or agreed upon by the majority of the world's population. Although Jesus was Asian, half the population of the world that is Asian does not understand Natural Law in the western philosophical tradition. Like it or not most people living in the Europe and the United States also do not understand Natural Law as the Catholic Social Doctrine states it. Making arguments from authority as Catholics does not help. What will help is living as St Francis of Assisi did. He did everything he could to walk in the footsteps of Jesus. People were attracted to Jesus because of his living witness. How do we get to a place where because of the way we Catholics lives, others will say see how they love one another and desire to follow the one savior of all human persons?
vance
8 months ago
Deacon, great article. Thanks for pointing out the always 'over looked' fact when we elect a president we are in effect electing the judiciary. I hope many Catholics are reading Catholic Online. I read in another Catholic News site that posted a Pew Poll showing that a majority of Catholics are for Obama. The Obama Catholics where I live are oblivious to what is happening with the HHS Mandate. Once again there is a good reason for it. Nothing is said about it from the pulpit.
Spiritus Gladius
8 months ago
Deacon, this is good. Excellent job!
Rob
8 months ago
Kasoy, I don't disagree with you. But at some point I think we are going to have to seriously take a look at where this has gotten us. Every election cycle it's the same old thing. Vote the boogey man out so we can reverse all these bad laws. But no matter what happens all this crap remains. And even when you put folks in that you think will rule a certain way, sometimes they don't.

We focus so much on the government and what it's doing and I think for a lot of folks that gives them a pass on real person to person evangelization. No one has ever been converted by having something shoved down their throat. We people of faith are not becoming more secular merely because our society is (or are we?). And vice versa, those who don't believe are not going to do so because we happen to block a law etc. In fact I think given the nature of the discourse half the time, I think we actually cause more harm than good.

Today I was listening to a former GOP governor from CO basically dismiss the abortion issue as a wedge issue only that nothing has been done on for 30 years. He stated that it was a constitutional right and basically that it's old news. It is precisely this mentality that assures nothing will ever be done unless we turn up the heat on the pro-life legislators.
Kasoy
8 months ago
Deacon Fournier said: This has serious implications on how the next person to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will govern on many fronts. One aspect of that governance, one which is not being discussed mush, is the next President's choice of as many as four future Supreme Court Justices. There are four Justices who in their seventies, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer.

Comment: True Catholics should seriously consider this major issue. This is probably the MOST IMPORTANT reason why we should vote out Obama and the Democrats.

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