Psalm
9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and
all the nations that forget God.
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Santa Fe
Independent School District vs. John Doe --- On June
19 a serious setback was dealt for the ability of
children to initiate prayer in school. It was over
whether students could initiate prayer at a High
School Football Game. A Catholic Family and a Mormon
Family disagreed with the open prayer process and set
in motion action that would ban all initiated school
prayer by students. Such a decision set in motion the
court process that would look into the whole matter
of prayer in school. This time the opinion would go 5
to 4 with two conservative judges joining the liberal
side of the court. It had been established that
students could pray as long as the prayer was
initiated by the students. That policy was abolished
with the 5 to 4 decision.
KENNEDY & O’CONNOR
VOTED ON THE LIBERAL SIDE THIS TIME
Justice Kennedy and Justice
O’Connor were usually on the conservative side
of the court but for the first time these two
justices threw their lot to the liberal side of the
court. Kennedy and O’Connor asked several
questions on Wednesday, June 29, 2000 The high court
struck down the ban on partial-birth abortion by a
vote of 5-4 and upheld the restrictions on
abortion-clinic protests by a margin of 6-3, with
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist joining the
majority for that case.
Boy Scout Decision
On an extraordinary final day of
the term, the court also upheld the right of the
Boy Scouts of America to bar homosexuals as
scoutmasters.
SET BACK FOR SCHOOL PRAYER
These decisions set back the cause
of school prayer that originated with Madelyn Murray
O’Hare’s case that set the standard for
this policy for school prayer. Many believe the
removal of school prayer has opened the door for
Satan to take control of the school systems of
America. The violence at Columbine was thought to be
an eye opener to the court but the cold ruling of the
court on this issue opened the door for prayer to be
stopped even if it is intitiated by students
themselves.
Abortion was upheld even in
the late stages of pregnacy
Roe vs Wade was enforced to the
letter of the law. Roe vs. Wade was the case that
established abortion as a women’s right in 1973.
Millions upon millions of abortions
have altered the land as we know it today and has
been established as big business in the medical
field. It was hoped that the partial birth abortion
case would have begun to crack the foundations of
abortion. This one case set back the right to life
more than 30 years and established the abortionists.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS COULD
ALTER THE COURT TO BE LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE
The politics of the Presidential
election will mold the court and how it votes in the
future. Three justices are over 70, Rehnquiest 76,
Stevens 70, and O’Connoer 70, while four more
are 60 years and older. Only one is in his 50’s.
In the next eight years the entire face of the court
will change. Whoever is elected as president will
determine who sits on the court. The platform of the
Republican Party goes against abortion. George Bush,
Jr. (R) will be the nominee of the party. While he
has not directly made a statement about abortion, it
is believed that Bush is pro-life. He will probably
appoint pro-life judges.
It will be tragic if Albert
Gore Is Elected
Vice-president Albert Gore (D), of
Tennessee is a liberal that will appoint liberal
judges to the court. It will be a great tragedy if
this man is elected.
