TEN THINGS ABOUT RUTH BADER GINSBURG
It is worth reflecting what were some of the causes that Ruth Bader Ginsburg championed:
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Same-Sex “Marriage”: Ginsburg ( RBG) was one of the five Supreme Court justices to rule in favour – with the remaining four against – same-sex marriage.
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Transgender Rights: Ginsburg supported the use of transgender bathrooms.
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Protecting Prostitution: Ginsburg argued that federal laws against prostitution be repealed, stating that: “Prostitution, as a consensual act between adults, is arguably within the zone of privacy protected by recent constitutional decisions.”
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Defending Bigamy: Ginsburg believed that a law against bigamy was “of questionable constitutionality since it appears to encroach impermissibly upon private relationships”.
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Abolishing Mother’s Day and Father’s Day: Ginsburg argued that “Replacing ‘Mother’s Day’ and ‘Father’s Day’ with a ‘Parent’s Day’ should be considered, as an observance more consistent with a policy of minimising traditional sex-based differences in parental roles”.
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Criticising the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts: Ginsburg opined: “The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, while ostensibly providing ‘separate but equal’ benefits to both sexes, perpetuate stereotyped sex roles to the extent that they carry out congressionally mandated purposes.”
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Urging Co-Ed Prisons: Ginsburg believed that: “Sex-segregated adult or juvenile institutions are obviously separate and in a variety of ways, unequal. … If the grand design of such institutions is to prepare inmates for return to the community as persons equipped to benefit from and contribute to civil society, then perpetuation of single-sex institutions should be rejected.”
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Reducing the Age of Consent to 12: Ginsburg ( RBG) recommended legislative changes that would reduce the age of consent for statutory rape from 16 to 12.
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Promotion of Abortion and Eugenics: Ginsburg strongly criticised a court ruling that found taxpayers are not constitutionally required to subsidise non-therapeutic abortions. Ginsburg also dissented in 2007 against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, stating that the court “deprives women of the right to make an autonomous choice, even at the expense of their safety. This way of thinking reflects ancient notions about women’s place in the family and under the Constitution – ideas that have long since been discredited.”
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Practising “Limousine Liberalism”: Ginsburg had opined that an employer who had a manifest racial imbalance in the composition of his workforce could be subjected to court-ordered quotas … But Ginsburg herself, at the time of her Supreme Court nomination, had operated her own judicial office for over a decade in a city that was majority black, but had never had a single black person among her more than 50 hires.
Extract from Mark Powell on the CaldronPool website, September 23, 2020.
POLISH PRESIDENT ANDRZEJ DUDA ON THE FAMILY
‘The family in my presidency and in my life has an immense value and in my view of the state. What is there to say but that there is no nation, no state without a family that has children, which in turn causes the renewal of generations, which means that the nation remains and it can create a state. So, if someone thinks of himself as a Polish patriot, if someone thinks that Poland should remain, that our nation should exist, then there should be no doubt that the family in all of this has a fundamental meaning.
The Polish Constitution orders the state to particularly defend the family.
Marriage, according to the Polish Constitution, is a union between a man and a woman. And parents have the right to raise the children according to their convictions. These are the fundamental rights written into the Polish Constitution. So, I only act according to the Polish Constitution.’
Extract from Alan Holdren on the Catholic News Agency website, September 27, 2020.
ALLEGATIONS CARDINAL BECCIU CHANNELED MONEY TO AUSTRALIA
Vatican prosecutors are investigating allegations that Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu funnelled €700,000 ($A1.14 million) through the apostolic nunciature in Australia.
According to an article in today’s (October 2) Corriere della Sera, officials in the Secretariat of State have compiled a dossier showing numerous bank transfers, including one sent to an “Australian account”.
The dossier has been presented to Vatican prosecutors ahead of a possible upcoming trial of Cardinal Becciu. Pope Francis accepted his resignation on September 24 and withdrew his rights as a cardinal but the Vatican has given no reason for his dismissal. The cardinal has denied the allegations.
Corriere della Sera also reported that according to Msgr Alberto Perlasca – a Secretariat of State official who worked under Cardinal Becciu from 2011 to 2018 when the cardinal served as the deputy secretary of state – Cardinal Becciu was known to “use journalists and contacts to discredit his enemies”.
“It is precisely in this vein that the payment in Australia would have been made, possibly in connection with Pell’s trial,” the article claimed.
The newspaper said that it could not confirm that Cardinal Becciu was personally responsible for the Australian bank transfer, or who the beneficiaries of the transaction were, but was investigating these matters further.
Extract from Edward Pentin on the National Catholic Register website, October 3, 2020.
