Religion is a PERSONAL matter between individuals and whatever god(s) the believe in or if they don’t believe in any supernatural deities.
Politics is public POLICY — to address legitimate issues of public policy to manage and develop our shared PUBLIC environment and infrastructure to achieve the public works that benefit us all but which no single private interest can achieve along, and to protect public safety and the public order — from threats of invasion, from crime, and yes, from corporate bullies that would dominate others and run roughshod over the rights of workers and consumers. And yes, that “public health and safety” includes the right not to die because you can’t afford medical care or because you get shot to death in a school, church, concert, nightclub or anywhere.
PRIVATE religion is not within the legitimate purview of PUBLIC policy. Just say NO to SOCIALIZED RELIGION.
Justice Alito can believe whatever he wants, and try to pursue (godliness) as much as he wants (though he certainly seems to bear no resemblance to any teachings ever attributed to Jesus in his private life, but in his role as a Supreme Court justice, no, it is not his place to try to promote “godliness” in his public role.
For all my differences with Chief Justice Roberts, and all his failures as an extremely weak Chief Justice in maintaining discipline within the Court, at least when he was presented with the same question, he knew what his role was and expressed it correctly.
Religion is a PERSONAL matter between individuals and whatever god(s) the believe in or if they don’t believe in any supernatural deities.
Politics is public POLICY — to address legitimate issues of public policy to manage and develop our shared PUBLIC environment and infrastructure to achieve the public works that benefit us all but which no single private interest can achieve along, and to protect public safety and the public order — from threats of invasion, from crime, and yes, from corporate bullies that would dominate others and run roughshod over the rights of workers and consumers. And yes, that “public health and safety” includes the right not to die because you can’t afford medical care or because you get shot to death in a school, church, concert, nightclub or anywhere.
PRIVATE religion is not within the legitimate purview of PUBLIC policy. Just say NO to SOCIALIZED RELIGION.
Justice Alito can believe whatever he wants, and try to pursue (godliness) as much as he wants (though he certainly seems to bear no resemblance to any teachings ever attributed to Jesus in his private life, but in his role as a Supreme Court justice, no, it is not his place to try to promote “godliness” in his public role.
For all my differences with Chief Justice Roberts, and all his failures as an extremely weak Chief Justice in maintaining discipline within the Court, at least when he was presented with the same question, he knew what his role was and expressed it correctly.