{"id":99646,"date":"2017-03-23T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=99646"},"modified":"2017-03-23T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:54:15","slug":"good-thing-not-appoint-garland-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/03\/good-thing-not-appoint-garland-scotus.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s a good thing we did not appoint Garland to SCOTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026or elect Hillary Clinton, because then we would have gotten a SCOTUS judge who insisted a fetus is not a person and Roe <\/em>is settled law:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nFor this<\/em>, O \u201cprolife\u201d Trump defenders, you have chosen to go to the mat defending a white supremacist sex predator who represents the utter antithesis of the gospel in virtually every way. For this<\/em>.<\/p>\nAnd let\u2019s be clear. I don\u2019t mean you voted for Trump because you felt appalled by Hillary. I get that. I mean that you are still defending him, defending him right now. The instant that lying predator won should have been the instant his \u201creluctant\u201d supporters became his strongest critics. But instead, they fell for the trap of having to rationalize their support for him and started defending his lies and cruelties. And they give no sign that they will stop defending him. Indeed, today I\u2019m hearing all the excuses for Gorsuch\u2019s language above and why we still have to believe that he\u2019s going to overturn Roe<\/em>, and why we must stay the course with Trump and Ryan, etc.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the main energy of \u201cprolife\u201d Trump defenders goes to defending the GOP plan to destroy health care for 24 million of the weakest in our society, as well as kicking refugees in the teeth during the gravest humanitarian crisis since WWII, and to battling virtually every other aspect of Catholic Social Teaching that is not about abortion. And in addition the Christians who used to talk about \u201cliving in the truth\u201d now defend every lie Trump tells and turn a blind eye when those lies are exposed. Still waiting for evidence of 3 million illegal votes. Still waiting for a drop of evidence that Obama tapped Trump\u2019s phones. But none of it matters because Good Christian Trump defenders have assured themselves they are Sons of Light and Trump\u2019s critics are, by definition, Sons of Darkness.<\/p>\nAnd so Roe <\/em>will continue and we will be told that the only way to approach abortion is by the fruitless lie that voting GOP will outlaw it someday in the great by and by. Any approach that appeals to the Church\u2019s *whole* social teaching will continue to be shouted down as \u201cFrancis-style liberalism\u201d and the unborn will continue to be used as human shields for attacking the whole teaching of the Church in defense of the Party of Trump freak show parody of the gospel.<\/p>\nOr, this being Lent, Christian defenders of the Party of Trump could try repenting their support of this anti-christ fraud and enemy of the gospel, listening to the teaching of the Church and doing it. God is full of mercy and abundant pardon and call us to return to him.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2026or elect Hillary Clinton, because then we would have gotten a SCOTUS judge who insisted a fetus is not a person and Roe is settled law: For this, O \u201cprolife\u201d Trump defenders, you have chosen to go to the mat defending a white supremacist sex predator who represents the utter antithesis of the gospel in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-99646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lent"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>It's a good thing we did not appoint Garland to SCOTUS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"...or elect Hillary Clinton, because then we would have gotten a SCOTUS 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