As most of you know the Supreme court is wrapping up it’s session right now, and handing down a lot of verdicts.
I was going through my daily dose of headlines using my personalized google page (http://www.google.com/ig log in with your gmail address), and found this NY Times Article. And the judges responses that most caught my eye were those of Antonin Scalia. The guy has interesting opinions. I haven’t dug deep into his platform, or his decisions, but the exerpts from a few cases that I have read about seem to be pretty much in-line with what I think.
The randomly I was thinking about Alan Greenspan and I was wondering what he thought about a few things and I started to do a bit of digging and found this speech he gave, and was very intrigued. I generally like Greenspan, everything I read about him I agree with, or think was well-timed or smart. I suspose I’ll go a little deeper and find out why in the 50’s and 60’s he was into the Ayn Ryand objectivism thing.
In general I don’t know what I think about politics at the moment. I don’t like the schizophrenia the courts exibhited on this Ten commandments thing.
I don’t give two shits about what they decided, it just seems to me to use the idea of something being generally accpeted by the community as a yard stick for what is right and what isn’t is not a good idea. Especially since cross burning was generally accepted at one time in certain communities.
I think that the courts are just into challenging the status quo right now. I was thinking if a muslim did something in school in the south that some teacher thought was objectionable, they would ask them to stop, because Islam is not the status quo. But if there were a court case over [insert random thing involving Islam] I’m pretty sure the courts would rule in the favor of freedom of [general category related to the random thing], because that would challenge the accepted status quo.
Christianity is no different. It is being challenged legally on a lot of fronts right now. I think that is a good thing. Religion won’t ever stand up to the litmus tests society makes for it, but I think it is a good kind of refining fire when groups endure those challenges. I’m just disappointed that it seems that free speech doesn’t apply to religion in a school, or courthouse, or anywhere else that is government run. I don’t think free speech was ever about avoiding offending people, so that makes me a little sad, when the high courts rule in that direction against religious organizations.
Well, that is enough politics for now. I think in a few weeks I’m going to actually write a researched peice on “What is Religion” from a viewpoint of disagreeing with the courts decision about the display of the ten commandments in schools. I’m not sure if I actually disagree with it, I just have been thinking of an interesting angle I would like to see further thought out.
Of course that will have to wait until I finish this website…which is actually getting close.