Dave Ball

                                               07-01-22

The funny thing about living in an historic moment is that most

people don’t realize they are.

This past week for the Supreme Court has to qualify as an historic

moment. The court handed down three specific decisions that

were heroic defenses of constitutional principles and will be

discussed for generations.

The first decision dealt with religious freedom and school choice.

The second decision was a major Second Amendment victory that

clarified “Shall Issue” requirements for concealed carry and

underlined the “shall not be infringed” language of the Second

Amendment. The third decision, of course, is the decision in

defense of unborn children striking down Roe v Wade. It is hard

to imagine three decisions, in three areas of our national life, with

greater impact.

The first decision strikes at the deeply held liberal desire to choke

Christian education by preventing public funding from going to

schools with religious curriculums. In this case, Justice Roberts

wrote for the majority that, “while a state need not subsidize

private education, once a state decides to do so, it cannot

disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”

The second decision struck down New York State’s heavy handed

law on the issuance of right-to-carry permits. New York required

its citizens to demonstrate a compelling need for such a permit in

clear violation of the plain language of the Second Amendment,

“the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be

infringed.” Justice Thomas, writing for the majority, noted that,

“The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is

not a second class right, subject to an entirely different body of

rules than other Bill of Rights guarantees.”

The third decision was a huge win for the voiceless of our society,

the yet to be born. Justice Alito, in the majority opinion, said,

”We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. Roe was

egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was

exceptionally weak and the decision has had damaging

consequences….It is time to heed the Constitution and return the

issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

These decisions are huge because they strike at three of the core

tenets of liberalism; creating an atheist state beginning with our

children, disarming the proletariat and determining who is worthy

of life.

Liberals have long tried to defund religious education and to drive

anything religious out of schools. By using the false claim of

“separation of church and state” (a non-existent constitutional

claim) to deny funding to any educational institution with a

religious curriculum, they are promoting extreme secularism and

providing an open field for the teaching of their own “religion”

through programs such as CRT. Justice Roberts stuck the knife in

that idea.

There is probably no truer saying than “The Second Amendment

defends the other twenty six.” Liberals would love nothing more

than to disarm the populous. We have seen examples lately of

what might take place should that happen. Justice Thomas

emphatically guaranteed that our citizens will be able to defend

themselves. It is now up to an armed citizenry to protect that

right.

It is unthinkable that anyone has the right to terminate a life

simply for their own convenience and yet according to a recent

study only 12% of abortions involve health issues. It is not a

long step from mid-term to late term abortion and then to after

birth murder. This is not something anyone wants to imagine.

Justice Alito made sure we won’t have to.

Despite the anguished hand wringing of liberals, the Supreme

Court did not outlaw abortion. This Supreme Court clearly

understands that the purpose of the court is to interpret the

Constitution and to determine whether laws comply with the

Constitution; not to make law and public policy as some previous

courts have. The court reversed a terrible decision made 49

years ago and returned the decision making authority regarding

abortion to the states where it rightfully and constitutionally

belongs. In the states, the elected representatives of the people

can decide how they wish to handle abortion.

The justices made a clear and rational decision despite unlawful

protests outside their homes attempting to intimidate them.

Protests that Attorney General Garland, at one time proposed as

a Supreme Court Justice, proved incapable of or unwilling to

handle.

Speaker Pelosi, as soon as the decision was announced, spewed

out a disgraceful diatribe of remarks impugning the integrity of

the court. She waxed endlessly about how terrible it was that

they should overturn a precedent that had stood for 50 years,

obviously unaware that the court has overturned its own

precedents more than 230 times including overturning the

decision upholding segregation and the Dred Scott decision

upholding slavery. Is she saying those should not have been

overturned?

President Biden, not to be outdone, declared that the court, “took

away a fundamental constitutional right.” Just to keep the record

straight, the court determined that there was no right to abortion

in the constitution and never had been.

It was a great week for the constitutional principles upon which

this nation was founded. It was good, once again, to see that we

are still a nation of laws.

God bless this great nation.