Re: Undermining Society's Morals

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marie A.) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spartakus) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Papa Jack) wrote...
> > 
> > > WE ARE NOT DISCUSSING WHAT THE MORAL CODE SHOULD 
> > > BE.  We are discussing  WHO (i.e., the legislatures 
> > > or the courts) should be influenced by those moral 
> > > codes when enacting laws.
> > 
> > Disingenuous fuckwit.  If you are not pushing *your* idea of what
> > society's morals should be, what is with the subject line "Undermining
> > Society's Morals"?
> > 
> > And, btw, why do you think the legislature is *less* likely to
> > "undermine society's morals" than the courts?
> 
> Thank you for asking. Because historically what the left knows they
> can't get through legislative bodies responsive to the will of the
> people, they run to a receptive judicial ear with. No better example
> of this can be found than in Roe v Wade.

Or Brown vs. Board of Education ?

It is the role of the courts to protect the rights of the minority
even against legislative bodies which arrogate to themselves the right
to define "society's morals". This right is reserved to the
constitution.

HRG.