If I was asked this question 20 years ago, the answer would have been yes; the Separation of Church and State has been recognized by the Supreme Court for as long as I can remember – but it seems that has changed, and it came like a thief in the night… When I saw the news the court had banned a type of late-term abortion, I wasn’t surprised in the least – but what I learned later shocked me to the core!

Justices uphold ban on abortion procedure

Story Highlights
• 5-4 ruling could open door to revisiting Roe v. Wade
• Justice Kennedy: Law does not violate constitutional right to abortion
• New justices Alito, Roberts provided solid conservative majority to uphold ban
• Federal law has never gone into effect pending court rulings

By Bill Mears
CNN Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a law that banned a type of late-term abortion, a ruling that could portend enormous social, legal and political implications for the divisive issue.

The sharply divided 5-4 ruling could prove historic. It sends a possible signal of the court’s willingness, under Chief Justice John Roberts, to someday revisit the basic right to abortion guaranteed in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case.

President Bush, who signed the law in 2003 and appointed two of the justices who upheld it, said the prohibition “represents a commitment to building a culture of life in America.”

“Today’s decision affirms that the Constitution does not stand in the way of the people’s representatives enacting laws reflecting the compassion and humanity of America,” he said in a statement released by the White House.

At issue is the constitutionality of a federal law banning a rarely performed type of abortion carried out in the middle-to-late second trimester. MORE

I believe that everyone has understood Roe vs Wade would be challenged; in fact, it’s a certainty in light of the recent appointments made by the Bush administration. President Bush has stacked the Supreme Court with conservative Justices – which is legal as far as the President’s power of political appointments are concerned; what wasn’t common-knowledge among the people was that the five (s) Justices who were in the majority on this decision are all male, and they were all Catholics!

Think about that for a moment; all five of the Justices were male Catholics… Does anyone see something wrong with this picture? What happened to a “fair and impartial” Supreme Court? With the Catholic Churches’ well-known stand on abortion, how fair and impartial is it to allow a majority of Justices on the Supreme Court to be Catholics? (I’m also disgusted that all five Justices were men; I take serious issue with men deciding the future of women. This IS NOT the Middle-east.)

Place yourself in the seat of each individual Justice – and decide what you would do. First, let’s “assume” that all five are really devout Catholics. I hate that “assume” word, however, in this case since all five are US Supreme Court Justices it would be fair to believe that they are honest Catholics, whose character is beyond reproach – and not hypocrites who would defy the only power most people are loyal to above and beyond their loyalty to this country, and that is their respective God. In these days of upheaval and the religious-right attempting to dictate morality, “God” and “Country” are no longer synonymous with liberty and the protections of our freedoms.

How would you vote on the issue of abortion? Would you attempt to uphold the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights- or would you vote the Churches’ policy on the abortion issue(s) to prevent your soul from eternally frying in Hell? If I believed in Catholicism, what would I do? Our time here on earth is limited – but an eternity in Hell?

It seems like a “slam-dunk” (sic), but seriously, having five Catholics on the Supreme Court doesn’t seem fair and impartial to me, nor to anyone else have I talked with – including Catholics! Bush couldn’t have done any better if he had moved the Court into the Vatican on the abortion issue – and frankly, I believe that having five (s) Catholic Justices that are a majority is probably unconstitutional.

Just for the fun of it, let’s say that it is unconstitutional… Now what? Where would an individual or group that opposed this obvious religious majority go to file a cause of action? Would it be an oxymoron to expect “Justice” on this issue from a Supreme Court that is no longer fair, balanced, and unbiased?

Does anyone know how to spell Theocracy?

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