Abortion Ruling Results in a Backlash for Catholic Justices
Several commentators have raised questions about the Catholicity of the five Supreme Court Justices who wrote the majorityopinion upholding the constitutionality of the ban on partial birth abortions. Once again, it has been shown that Anti-Catholic bigotry is the last acceptable prejudice.
Rosie O’Donnell was one of the first to show her anti-Catholic bigotry.
O’Donnell asked last week on ABC’s “The View.” “How many Supreme Court judges are Catholic?” “Five,” O’Donnell said. “How about separation of church and state in America?” “If men could get pregnant,” O’Donnell said, “abortion would be a sacrament.”
Geoffry Stone , a University of Chicago Law Professor, was next.
“All five justices in the majority in Gonzales are Catholic,” wrote Stone in a faculty blog. “The four justices who either are Protestant or Jewish all voted in accord with settled precedent. It is mortifying to have to point this out. But it is too obvious, and too telling to ignore.”
Stone said it was “sad” that the justices in the majority had “failed to respect the fundamental difference between religious belief and morality.”
I think it is time for University of Chicago alum and “The View” fans to speak up and say that enough is enough. Tell them that this type of hateful speech is not acceptable.
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