“Faith-Based Justices”
By Jan Crawford Greenburg
ABC News
“You know what concerns me?” Rosie O’Donnell asked last week on ABC’s morning gabfest, The View.
“How many Supreme Court judges are Catholic, Barbara?”
"Five,” responds host Barbara Walters.
“Five. How about separation of church and state in America?” asks constitutional law scholar Rosie, after the Court’s sweeping decision upholding a federal law banning partial birth abortion.
Barbara counsels against drawing conclusions, saying “we cannot assume that they did it because they’re Catholic.” But the theologian in Rosie can’t help herself.
“If men could get pregnant,”Rosie opines, “abortion would be a sacrament.”
Good heavens. Where does one start? Perhaps with the law the Supreme Court interpreted. It was approved by a bipartisan congressional coalition that included the Republican and Democratic leadership. In all, 17 Senate Democrats voted for it, in addition to 47 Republicans, the vast majority—I think we can assume—who are not Catholic. You could say the five justices in the majority voted to uphold a law that reflected the choices of those legislators, not to mention the some 30 states that previously had imposed similar bans.
ABC News
“You know what concerns me?” Rosie O’Donnell asked last week on ABC’s morning gabfest, The View.
“How many Supreme Court judges are Catholic, Barbara?”
"Five,” responds host Barbara Walters.
“Five. How about separation of church and state in America?” asks constitutional law scholar Rosie, after the Court’s sweeping decision upholding a federal law banning partial birth abortion.
Barbara counsels against drawing conclusions, saying “we cannot assume that they did it because they’re Catholic.” But the theologian in Rosie can’t help herself.
“If men could get pregnant,”Rosie opines, “abortion would be a sacrament.”
Good heavens. Where does one start? Perhaps with the law the Supreme Court interpreted. It was approved by a bipartisan congressional coalition that included the Republican and Democratic leadership. In all, 17 Senate Democrats voted for it, in addition to 47 Republicans, the vast majority—I think we can assume—who are not Catholic. You could say the five justices in the majority voted to uphold a law that reflected the choices of those legislators, not to mention the some 30 states that previously had imposed similar bans.
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