Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Right to Choose -- What
The Washington Times: "Judge Roberts stood before the committee, raised his right hand and swore to tell the truth. He then sat down and delivered the briefest remarks of the day.
'Judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around,' he told the lawmakers. 'Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them.'"
Did you ever notice that the senators actually do most of the talking, and yet, none of them are sworn to tell the truth. It is the one sworn to tell the truth who delivers the briefest remarks.
Arlen Specter has already begun questioning about that liberal sacred cow - "a woman's right to choose." But in the excerpt that I heard, he didn't say what the woman's choices might be: A woman's right to choose to have sexual relations? A woman's right to choose contraceptives? A woman's right to choose to have a healthy unborn infant's skull perforated and its brains scrambled and sucked out? He didn't say any of these things because it is this last one to which he actually refers and the reality of it is so hideously repulsive that only an amorphous euphemism can be used. Inevitably, the left (and Specter is on the left regardless of his party affiliation) is a position of labels -- extremist and inaccurate labels for those things which require individual responsibility, hard decisions, and especially for religion (Christianity in particular), -- but soft euphemistic and inaccurate labels for the unsavory vices (whose real names are seldom even mentioned) and government intervention advocated by the left. Perhaps the left is not so much a position of labels and simply a position of inaccuracy.
'Judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around,' he told the lawmakers. 'Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them.'"
Did you ever notice that the senators actually do most of the talking, and yet, none of them are sworn to tell the truth. It is the one sworn to tell the truth who delivers the briefest remarks.
Arlen Specter has already begun questioning about that liberal sacred cow - "a woman's right to choose." But in the excerpt that I heard, he didn't say what the woman's choices might be: A woman's right to choose to have sexual relations? A woman's right to choose contraceptives? A woman's right to choose to have a healthy unborn infant's skull perforated and its brains scrambled and sucked out? He didn't say any of these things because it is this last one to which he actually refers and the reality of it is so hideously repulsive that only an amorphous euphemism can be used. Inevitably, the left (and Specter is on the left regardless of his party affiliation) is a position of labels -- extremist and inaccurate labels for those things which require individual responsibility, hard decisions, and especially for religion (Christianity in particular), -- but soft euphemistic and inaccurate labels for the unsavory vices (whose real names are seldom even mentioned) and government intervention advocated by the left. Perhaps the left is not so much a position of labels and simply a position of inaccuracy.
// posted by Zerin Hood @ 8:44 AM 
