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Thread: Barrett urged to recuse herself from Supreme Court LGBT case over Christian faith

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    True.

    I also just can't picture myself demanding special treatment because of something in my genetic code. There should be no special or protected classes. That includes those covered by the ADA.

    Right, the whole idea of equality is equal treatment before the law. But protected classes implies special treatment, and that's wrong. To me, this came about with someone's idea to right past wrongs but that's not government's place to do as it implies special treatment, and that's wrong. It also came about because some got the idea prohibitions against the government could be applied to the private sphere in order to change society, which is what calls for Barrett to recuse herself are about, IMO, and this too is wrong.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Left-handed here too. I wouldn't ask for protections considering where they come from, the government, and they rarely turn out good.
    Dang. I'm left handed, too. Left handed people are the only ones in their right mind. I guess we might be overrepresented here because we're typically above average. Although, I shoot guns and play the guitar right handed.
    “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by LescoBrandon View Post
    Don't worry. That rule only applies to whites.

    I remember, gosh, back in 2000, I moved to South Carolina for a job. Being new to the area, and in need of a haircut, I pulled into a hair cutting establishment near my apartment. I walked in, and immediately got some funny looks from the 5 black ladies standing around their barber chairs. "We don't cut white folk hair in here," one said.

    Okay. I left. No skin off my nose and no $10 for them. I didn't feel the urge to sue. I was only moderately annoyed at having wasted the 5 minutes pulling into their parking lot and walking in. I knew they were racist. Oh well. Live and let live.

    Try that at a white barber shop or salon.
    If someone's already addressed this, apologies for jumping ahead.

    Those black ladies turning you away was most likely not racism. Most black beauticians do not know how to cut white people's hair, and vice ~ verse. It's a whole 'nother 'science', and she likely did you a favor, even if she was on the rude side about it.
    It'd be like me walking into a barber and asking for a perm. No can do.

    Capiche?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2cent View Post
    If someone's already addressed this, apologies for jumping ahead.
    Those black ladies turning you away was most likely not racism. Most black beauticians do not know how to cut white people's hair, and vice ~ verse. It's a whole 'nother 'science', and she likely did you a favor, even if she was on the rude side about it.
    It'd be like me walking into a barber and asking for a perm. No can do.
    Capiche?
    I get that. The racism wasn't so much confirmed by what she said as how she said it. And I really don't care. To me, that's their decision and it was my $10.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    Spot on.
    The number of people who don't consider individual liberty is stunning.

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    A bit of information and opinion of the call for Barrett to recuse herself.

    Justice Barrett is allowed to have religious beliefs

    ...Barrett belongs to a small religious group called People of Praise, which is mostly Catholic but also ecumenical and holds a patriarchal biblical view of the different natures and roles of the sexes. Because of this, a former member of People of Praise, Maura Sullivan, wants Barrett out, saying, “I don’t believe that someone in her position, who is a member of this group, could put those biases aside.”

    ...what does the accusation of bias and prejudice say about the Left and Sullivan? First, it draws attention to the fact that Sullivan, a bisexual woman who was repudiated at 19 by her parents, is almost certainly allowing her own scarred past to influence her judgment. She is actually doing what she accuses Barrett of being likely to do.

    It also highlights the Left’s insistence that courts cannot but be, indeed must be, influenced by a judge’s politics and personality. For the Left, the personal is always political, which is why its partisans demand judges be chosen for qualities other than the merits of their jurisprudence. They want black judges and female judges to make courts representative, even though representation is the role of legislatures — think House of Representatives — and the judiciary’s role is simply to apply the law. That is, apply the law as written, not as they would prefer it to be....

    If you look at recent cases and public statements by various justices you see this very division clearly between Constitutionalist applying law and activists seeking social justice.
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    No problem. As soon as the new judge recuses herself from any case involving women since she has no idea what one is.





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    Just remember Sotomayor said it herself - she'd make better judicial decisions than any white male.
    “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Left-handed here too. I wouldn't ask for protections considering where they come from, the government, and they rarely turn out good.
    Left handed here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LescoBrandon View Post
    Dang. I'm left handed, too. Left handed people are the only ones in their right mind. I guess we might be overrepresented here because we're typically above average. Although, I shoot guns and play the guitar right handed.
    Although I am left handed I shoot with either. But that took training and discipline.
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