The Cultural Roadblock, By Roger Behra

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The Cultural Roadblock

By

Roger Behra

Once again it is time for United States Supreme Court to be foremost in the new broadcasts. It is the most important and influential court of America. It is in the news because another member, Justice John Paul Stevens, is retiring after 35 year on the court. There is both good and bad news attached to his retirement. The good news is he is retiring. The bad news is his replacement will be another super liberal on the court. The liberal justices have been a great disservice to America’s culture. The most notable disservice was the Supreme Court’s decision to allow abortion to be legal in a 1973 session.

Justice Stevens has cast some very culturally harmful votes during his tenure. They include racial quotas, rights for terrorists, and taking away of the rights of American citizen in regards to their own homes. They were bad votes that now clutter his legacy. They were bad votes that ignored the Constitution.

Justice Stevens is not the only wayward one. What has been happening so much over the decades in the Supreme Court has been in general ignoring the right of Americans under the Constitution. The court’s decisions have been very harmful culturally to Americans. There’s no doubt at all.

One the biggest problem concerning the Court is this. After the appointment to the Court the new justice changes philosophies. That is totally unacceptable, and it adds greatly to the disservices rendered, but nothing can be done because the justice appointed for life. It has happened in the past a conservative appointee who was appointed because of conservative ideals changed ideals during the tenure of the appointment. Justice Stevens did just that. It is a disservice and a slap in the face. It is also counterproductive when a sitting justice stretches and twists the Constitution to meet his own agenda and goals. Sitting justices have the pure responsibility to uphold the Constitution. Abortion became the law of the land in 1973 in the U. S. because the Constitution was stretched and twisted. That has to be de Supreme Court´s worst decision. Millions of innocent and helpless babies have since been murdered. In all fairness to Stevens abortions became legal before his appointment.

A great part of the bad news is the replacement nominee, Elena Kagan, who was nominated by President Obama who is working hard to change America into a socialist nation. It is no secret that Obama and Kagan worked together in their state of Illinois. She know his thinking well, and it is feared she will vote along socialist lines was a Supreme Court Justice. She is very liberal also unless she changes her mind upon her election to the Court. If no, Oh, my goodness! The Supreme Court will go from bad to worse, indeed!

R. B.
5-11-10