The $%^$#@ Supreme Court...Updated...

UPDATE: IF it is a matter of levels of moral depravity as Justice Kennedy says it is, please read this phrase by Justice Alito in his dissent:

Indeed, I have little doubt that, in the eyes of ordinary Americans, the very worst child rapists—predators who seek out and inflict serious physical and emotional injury on defenseless young children—are the epitome of moral depravity.

UPDATE: This post was a knee-jerk reaction to a Supreme Court decision with which I did not agree. After time to calm down and reflect and pray on this...I still feel exactly the same way...


If you haven't figured it out already, this will be a political post. So if you don't like that sort of stuff, you may want to stop reading.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law that allows the execution of people convicted of a(sic) raping a child.

In a 5-4 vote, the court says the law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in cases of child rape violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment

I know I am supposed to be against the death penalty and all that because all life is precious and blah blah blah but there is something about this decision that effects me beyond words. I am pro-life. I give to pro-life organizations. I pray that the justices will see the errors of their ways and overturn that horrific decision. Instead, they deem raping a child...raping a child...raping...a...child...is not worthy of execution. I am dumbfounded. If the laws are not here to protect the most defenseless of us then what are they here for?

I am supposed to be pro-life and anti-death penalty. In public, I am. I say all the right things. Life is a gift from God and who are we to take it. But deep down in places I don't talk about at parties, I feel there is a fundamental difference between an unborn baby and a child rapist. One had his chance and he blew it. The other never got the chance. Snuffed out before it could grow. Love. Smile.

In the past few weeks, the Supreme Court has told us that enemy combatants held on foreign soil have all the rights and privileges that Americans do when it comes to justice. This is precedent setting. It has opened up the federal courts to all 290 terrorists sitting in Gitmo. You think our court systems are bogged down now, just wait until these guys get involved. Imagine the CIA having to hand over documents or agents to 290 different trials. And they have told us raping a child is not punishable by death. They seeem to be batting a thousand.

Scalia, Alito, Roberts and Thomas are holding on for dear life. This court will go down in history as the one that started the fall. It's a shame those judges will be lumped in with the Ginsburg's and Souter's of the court.

By the way, one of the reasons - Biblically speaking - that Israel was sent away into captivity, according to most of the prophets, was their corrupt judicial system.