Upside Down, Inside Out, Now You Are Turning Me

How the Catholic Left Is Boxed in by Abortion
by William A. Donohue

An excerpt.

Catholic Democrats are proudly running a most embarrassing article by a Jesuit priest, Rev. Raymond Schroth. Father Schroth loves the fact that Muslim terrorists held at Gitmo will now be afforded ACLU lawyers.

What bothers him is that the Catholics on the high court dissented from the majority opinion. He asks, "Is there any trace of their religious upbringing in their judicial decisions?" Indeed, he concludes by writing, "Thank God for non-Catholics John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg."

Father Schroth's argument is fatally flawed. While legislators can rightfully allow their religiously informed conscience to affect their votes, judges cannot. Lawmakers may vote for what they believe is in the best interest of the nation, and they can be removed by the voters. Judges have a different charge: They must interpret the law as it was intended to be applied by those who wrote it. In other words, they must put aside their religiously informed conscience in rendering a judgment. Moreover, they cannot be removed by the voters.

Link to the full story at Inside Catholic (here)