Comments on: It’s Sunday. Do You Know Where Your Supreme Court Justices Are?

By: muggle

muggle — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:37:13 +0000

It’s unsettling…

And yet I found every one of the comments above mine right.

Have to say though at the bottom, I’m mostly with siamang here. Something funny is afoot.

However, it’s done in legal wrappings and there’s not much you can do about it. Probably makes it all the more unsettling.

By: AK

AK — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:00:53 +0000

How about starting a RED MASS FOR REASON parallel to catholic mass and inviting the justices over every year. I am sure Ruth Ginsberg may come to begin with?

Any takers in washington to fund something like this for the next supreme court session.

If they dont attend, we get to sue them for not attending the atheist mass and promoting religion while in a state role…

By: Reginald Selkirk

Reginald Selkirk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:03:07 +0000

“You’re kidding yourself if you think an annual mass significantly influences the jurisprudential thinking of seasoned legal professionals.”

This sounds like just the sort of excuse that advertisers use about their commercials. Yet they continue to pump billions into advertising every year.

By: Spurs Fan

Spurs Fan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:03:26 +0000

Good debate all around, but I have to say that I find Justice Ginsburg’s comments to be at best awkward. I applaud her desire to flee the mass, but am confused by her admonition that the statements that caused her to leave were “outrageously anti-abortion”. For those of pro-choicers who fight against the false label of “pro-abortion” this sort of comment really sets us back.

By: Reginald Selkirk

Reginald Selkirk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:06:44 +0000

Red Mass - reminds me of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe.

By: hoverFrog

hoverFrog — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:04:35 +0000

Do they go for a laugh do you think. I’ve always considered the hats that the Catholic Priests wear to be the height of silly head wear. For someone who wears a pirate hat even when in the shower I find it refreshing that someone has the audacity to outdo me in outrageous headgear.

In England High Court judges and barristers (not the coffee making kind) wear wigs that are nearly as silly as Catholic Priests hats or nuns penguin outfits. Maybe the Supreme Court Justices are getting tips for a new uniform hat.

We all need to relax from time to time and church is cheaper than a comedy club. You can hear politically incorrect humour and no-one will comment. Gay jokes, jokes about women, child molester jokes. No Justice would survive going to a comedy club to listen to that sort of thing.

What’s that, it isn’t a joke? Oh dear.

By: Christophe Thill

Christophe Thill — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:00:20 +0000

Red Mass? It’s a communist thing… ?

And what’s with this “God-given power” thing? I thought divine right had been out of fashion for at least the last 2 centuries?

By: medussa

medussa — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:11:03 +0000

Let’s just assume for a second that I wanted an afternoon during which I had the undivided attention of the Supreme Court Justices. An entire afternoon during I which I would say, preach the lesbian agenda, or talk about a woman’s right to choose, or the rights and plights of immigrants or atheists.
I can’t imagine how I would convince the Justices to attend, but if I were successful, can you imagine the outcry in this country? The indignation of those whose opinion was different? The screaming about how gays and lesbians/atheists/loose women were dominating the Justices’ time? About how we were trying to undermine the integrity of their neutrality? etc.

Yeah, I’m outraged. I agree it shouldn’t be made illegal for them to attend, but I find it outrageous that the Catholic Church is ONCE AGAIN feeling entitled to offer services that they would find offensive if they were offered by anyone else…

By: Siamang

Siamang — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:36:42 +0000

But the degree of influence this mass has on any decision the SC makes is negligible.

And yet…. they attend. Strange, huh?

It’s like a big meeting where the most powerful people in the country are … ahem… expected to attend. And then they hear a sermon about how they’re … ahem…. expected to rule…. and then they go away, and somehow we’re not supposed to think there’s something altogether fishy about it, or that they’re going to remain impartial when their very action in attending says that it’s not.

Anyway. Let’s say that tomorrow I announce that I want all the Supremes to come hear me give a speech on how I think they should rule. Will they show up?

Nope? Why? Because I don’t pretend to have God’s authority.

By: Jessica Sideways

Jessica Sideways — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:31:40 +0000

*sigh* It is so embarrassing that psychopaths are running my country. But then again, what’s new?