Cancer and Idolatry in the Supreme Court
Bad Supreme Court decisions spread like cancer and are based on a form of idolatry.
Consider Roe v. Wade, for example. Fifty years ago, Sweden was the only nation in the civilized world that did not have criminal penalties for most abortions. Today, the dominant culture of the Western world regards abortion as acceptable. Many people irrationally decided that if the Supreme Court said abortion was all right, it must be all right. Many other people decided that if America practiced abortion, it must be the right thing for their country as well. Just like cancer, abortion spread throughout the West, and indeed most of the world.
This metastasis did not start with Roe v. Wade, however; it was a logical extension of a truly absurd 1965 case, Griswold v. Connecticut. The Griswold case involved the constitutionality of the last two state laws against distributing contraceptives. At the time, the dominant Protestant elite in America believed in contraception and probably over half the country agreed. No rational person could argue that the Constitution actually prohibited laws against contraception. The Supreme Court, however, held that emanations from penumbras of the Constitution did so.
And now… the rest of the story. …..
Harold
