April 6, 2017
It appears
that on Friday the Republican controlled Senate will exercise what is being
called the “nuclear option” and confirm the nomination of judge Neal Gorsuch as
a justice of the Supreme Court. An
amazing amount of handwringing and wailing is being heard from the progressive
Left over this “heavy handed” confirmation.
How dare the majority party take away the right of the minority to
filibuster this nomination! Such tactics
serve only to further exacerbate the divide between the two parties! Why can’t there be some kind of compromise in
this matter?
The answer
is simple. There can’t.
More than
ever, the Gorsuch nomination underlines the chasm that now exists in this
country between our two political parties.
The Democratic party absolutely and resolutely supports the “right” of a
woman to kill her baby in the womb.
Period. The Republican party
argues that a child in the womb is a child, not “fetal contents,” and should
enjoy the same “right to life” within the womb that he or she has outside of
the womb. Those are not complementary
positions. They are absolutely opposite to
each other. And both parties are very
well aware that a politicized Supreme Court will render decisions that favor
one side or the other in this matter.
Our politicized
judicial system now regularly legislates from the bench – at state and federal
levels. For years now, the agenda of the
progressive Left in this country has been furthered, not by legislation, but by
judicial decision. Again and again,
courts have overturned the votes of the people to further abortion “rights” and
gay “rights.” The progressive Left has
been able to further its agenda, not because it has the support of the majority
of the people, but because it controls the courts. Should that control begin to slip away, it is
a game changer of major proportions.
Six months
ago the Democratic party was smugly secure in the knowledge that they would be
able to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Scalia with a judge whose
values and decisions would further their agenda. They were also very aware that dozens of
judgeships across the country would also be filled by appointing judges who
values reflected those of the progressive Left.
This would mean decades of decisions favoring and furthering their agenda. It would solidify their hold on power.
All that
blew up in November. They are now in a
panic. The very real possibility of not
holding a majority in the Supreme Court, of having appeals court justices
appointed who are not necessarily of a liberal bent, is the stuff of nightmares
to them. A possibility they couldn’t even
envision a year ago is moving closer and closer to a harsh reality.
I don’t
know about you, but I am sick to death of listening to politicians from both
parties talk about the need for compromise and working together. I am all for compromise and working together
on trade legislation or infrastructure spending. Let them compromise and cut deals all they
want. But there are some bottom line
moral issues for which there can be no compromise. Either its right to kill a baby in the womb
or it’s murder. I really don’t see a
compromise position that doesn’t entail dead babies. Either marriage is to be between a man and a
woman or anything goes. Once again, I
fail to see a compromise position that doesn’t entail the destruction of
marriage as designed by our Creator.
There are issues that you simply can’t solve by making a “deal.”
We are in a
culture war. We are in a war that will
determine the values that will guide the future of this country. When you’re in a war you’d better fight to
win. War is never kind to the losers.
Don’t kid
yourself, religious freedom is under vicious and determined attack in this
country. The arena in which these attacks
have taken place have been court rooms.
If we allow the progressive Left to continue to take over the judiciary
our religious freedom will be systematically stripped from us. Please consider the catastrophic implications
of this for your children and grandchildren.
I don’t want to even contemplate my grandkids being threatened with
prison time because they hold to Biblical values that have been outlawed and
condemned by a twisted and sick society.
In this ongoing political and judicial war over whose values will control
decision making we simply must win.
So, if that
means on Friday the Republicans in the Senate invoke the nuclear option and
approve Judge Gorsuch, so be it. I will
guarantee you, if the shoe was on the other foot, the Democrats would not
hesitate to use that same option to approve their candidate for the court. This is increasingly a winner take all matter
with huge implications for the future direction of this country. Both sides understand that.
We’d better
as well.
