Republicans Playing Games

THE REPUBLICANS' refusal to approve Obama's Supreme Court nominee their refusal to even give him a chance, even though he was well qualified, was clearly unconstitutional. remarkable how they pretend this isn't so, and how flippantly and easily right wingers stand piously behind their phony argument that the American people should choose the justices. Of course they should, which is why Justice Garland should have been given a fair hearing. Their (the republican's) gamble that a republican would replace Obama and appoint a conservative justice paid off. These people will tragically never allow themselves to admit or understand that conservatism is not a for for nor an indication of being a good jurist. The idea that a good judge is a conservative judge is sick and twisted, to say the least. A Supreme Court dominated by conservatives, which is what we are going to have soon with the retirement and replacement of Justice Kennedy, has already begun turning out crazy, stupid, wrong decisions based on right wing political ideology. Among the msot recent: the Christian religion can now be used to discriminate in the secular, public, business realm. Gay couples can be denied wedding cakes, and Sarah Huckabbee can be asked to leave a restaurant is she happens to be contrary to the owner's religious beliefs. How sick. Presumably, a Christian couple could be denied a wedding cake if the bakery owner is an atheist, or an atheist couple can be denied a cake if the bakery owner is Christian. The Supreme wrongly rules that only bey allowing the bakery ownder to deny a wedding cake to the gay couple protest religious liberty; selling a cake to a gay couple does nothing to hinder religious liberty , in fact. Christians may now legally discriminate against people of whose lifestyle or behavior they not approve, and anyone who wants to may discriminate on personal religious grounds. That fact will become evident, in test cases, soon enough. Suffice to say, teh court has unleashed a Pandora's box of discrimination lawsuits.