# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1132
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22622 "2015-06-30T15:24:08Z")
> [@TheSeaOtter](#): > > If Scalia is so concerned about the lack of diversity on the Court, he should act immediately to alleviate it… by resigning. If we are going to get all demographic, the 800 pound gorilla in the room is that six of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics and two are justice, with just one Protestant on the court. It’s all about abortion and litmus tests, of course, but it’s still fucking weird. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22623 "2015-06-30T15:30:17Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > If we are going to get all demographic, the 800 pound gorilla in the room is that six of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics and two are justice, with just one Protestant on the court. It’s all about abortion and litmus tests, of course, but it’s still fucking weird. Er, Jewish. Two are Jewish. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22624 "2015-06-30T15:31:06Z")
There hasn’t been even one Protestant since Stevens retired. Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan are Jewish, the other six are Catholic. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22625 "2015-06-30T19:35:30Z")
[Maine Governor Paul LePage advocates shooting a political cartoonist](http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/maine-gop-governor-loses-it-threatens-to-shoot-a-cartoonist-and-execute-lawmakers/). To the face of the son of the cartoonist. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22626 "2015-06-30T22:19:43Z")
[Lawyer who works for Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore](http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/roy_moores_lawyer_to_gov_bentl.html): > [@](#): > > Time for Public Officials to take their stand one way or the other > > Jesus Christ is Lord of all. He came to save the world by His death and resurrection. That world includes you, me, the family, the civil government, all the institutions of life. He came to advance His Father’s kingdom, not watch man run rampant upon the earth as if Christ had never come. As if it were the days of Noah! > > **Public officials are ministers of God assigned the duty of punishing the wicked and protecting the righteous**. If the public officials decide to officially approve of the acts of the wicked, they must logically not protect the righteous from the wicked. In fact, they must become protectors of the wicked. You cannot serve two masters; you must pick – God or Satan. > > The criminal laws against homosexual sodomy are for the protection of the righteous, particularly the young, the weak, the vulnerable, who need the law to teach them right from wrong when in a vulnerable state. The U.S. Supreme Court, although it claims to have done so in 2003, cannot take something that God calls a crime and declare it not a crime. > > We’re facing something even worse now, the civil government taking a new step and actually requiring the approval and sanctifying by the state of an evil behavior. Five justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have now opined that the States of this country and all of us must approve of so-called marriages of same sex couples. > > Therefore, the civil government must now become a persecuting power; you cannot avoid it. The civil government must protect what it approves of. It must protect the advocates’ employment, their business dealings, their lives in every way. Against whom? Against those who think their lifestyle is evil. That’s you and me, bible-believing Christians, the Church, etc. > > Public official, what will you do? Will you stand up for the law of Alabama, for the people, for the weak and vulnerable, for the law of God? Or will you capitulate? Will you become complicit in the takeover by the wicked? > > “I must follow the law,” you say. Law? What law? There is no law anymore, there’s just opinion. One day this, one day that. When the law becomes merely the opinion of a handful of people on the courts, there is no longer any law. There is tyranny. There is chaos. But there is no law. > > The young and the weak, those that are caused to stumble by courts that approve of what is evil, are those whom Jesus referred to when he said, “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.” Luke 17:2. You don’t want to be complicit in allowing such stumbling blocks. > > Don’t use the Nazi war-crimes trial defense: “My superiors (or the courts) told me to do it.” You’re not standing for the rule of law when you capitulate to a law that defies God and exposes people to the wicked. You’re just a coward making excuses! > > Or will your conscience cause you to resign? Why would you leave the people of this State, their children, your children and grandchildren to the wolves, those who would rend the society apart with their denial of what’s good and evil? > > Your duty is to stand against the ravages of a superior authority that would go beyond its rightful power and force upon the people something evil. That’s what the founders of our country did when Parliament exceeded its powers. That’s what the Puritans in civil government in the 1600’s did when the King exceeded his powers. > > On Judgment Day, you won’t stand in front of the media, the advocates of “Equality,” or even the federal courts; you’ll stand before the King of Kings, the Judge and Ruler over the Kings of the Earth, Jesus Christ. His law is not subject to the vote of man, and He, asthe good and loving author of that law, does not exempt any nation from it. The law’s author, speaking of Himself as “the stone which the builders rejected,” said, “Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.” Luke 20:18. > > What can you do? You have authority as an elected official. You also are sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution and Alabama Constitution. Find a way to do so. Don’t acquiesce to the takeover (actually the takedown)! Use your authority and every legal angle to oppose the tyrants! If necessary, just say, “No.” It is not rebellion for you to say, “Your interpretation of the Constitution is wrong, beyond your authority, and detrimental to this nation.” In fact, it’s your duty. You’re not opposing the rule of law, you’re upholding it by saying that. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22627 "2015-06-30T22:26:06Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Lawyer who works for Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore](http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/roy_moores_lawyer_to_gov_bentl.html): Wow, that’s some serious crazy > [@](#): > > Public officials are ministers of God assigned the duty of punishing the wicked and protecting the righteous. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22628 "2015-06-30T22:30:01Z")
Democracy, Theocracy, just the same thing with different names right? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22629 "2015-06-30T22:45:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Lawyer who works for Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore](http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/roy_moores_lawyer_to_gov_bentl.html): I’m not sure if he graduated from law school, but if he did, he should ask for his money back. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22630 "2015-06-30T22:55:17Z")
Does Bob Jones University have a law school? Jeez, that’s fucked up. I mean, that man is mentally ill. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22631 "2015-06-30T23:36:17Z")
My bet is Liberty University. Resignation coming in three, two, … Since he brought up the Nazis; what’s his solution to the Jewish problem? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22632 "2015-06-30T23:42:52Z")
[Win Johnson’s LinkedIn page says he went to the University of Alabama School of Law.](https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2901810&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=sYj3&locale=en_US&srchid=4082411721435707707932&srchindex=2&srchtotal=9&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A4082411721435707707932%2CVSRPtargetId%3A2901810%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22633 "2015-06-30T23:46:58Z")
Same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22634 "2015-07-01T00:32:30Z")
I find it hard to believe that any of these people have ever interacted with a real homosexual person in their life. I know they’re a minority, but that still strikes me as really sheltered. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22635 "2015-07-01T00:48:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Lawyer who works for Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore](http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/roy_moores_lawyer_to_gov_bentl.html): I hate to be all cliched, but based on pure Bayesian probability, this guy just shot up to the top of the list of “Most likely to be caught canoodling with a member of the same sex in a moment of weakness”. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22636 "2015-07-01T07:32:33Z")
Did you notice this: [Quote=Raving Nutjob] The criminal laws against **homosexual** sodomy are for the protection of the righteous… [/quote] (Emphasis added.) IANAL, so I don’t know the specifics of Alabama’s sodomy laws, but I found it interesting that he would distinguish between the flavors. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22637 "2015-07-01T14:22:28Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I find it hard to believe that any of these people have ever interacted with a real homosexual person in their life. Who hasn’t? Granted, they might not have realized the person they were talking to was gay, it ain’t always obvious. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22638 "2015-07-01T14:25:47Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I find it hard to believe that any of these people have ever interacted with a real homosexual person in their life. I know they’re a minority, but that still strikes me as really sheltered. I think that many or most of the letter-writers, preachers, and other prominent anti-gay folks have interacted quite intimately with a number of real homosexuals in their private lives. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22639 "2015-07-01T15:46:00Z")
[QUOTE=Crazy Guy] The criminal laws against homosexual sodomy are for the protection of the righteous, particularly the young, the weak, the vulnerable, who need the law to teach them right from wrong when in a vulnerable state. [/QUOTE] This was the bit that got me. With out the law to tell me gay sex is wrong, how am I to know? Now that it is all legal and everything everywhere, I gots to go out and get me gay-laid. Because, everyone in their heart of hearts wants to do that a lot and would have been doing it a lot if the law had not been protecting us. What, does this guy live in some kind of law cabin? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22640 "2015-07-01T15:51:08Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > …What, does this guy live in some kind of law cabin? That’s another dream he can’t allow himself – imagining himself surounded by the [Log Cabin Republicans](http://www.logcabin.org/about-us/). ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22641 "2015-07-01T16:49:18Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > What, does this guy live in some kind of law cabin? I see what you did there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1131) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1133)