"one of the greatest justices of the last 100 years"???

 The title of this post refers to the opinion of a defender of baby killing regarding the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  I think it's pretty clear that what makes her "one of the greatest justices of the last 100 years" to those who believe Ginsburg actually is one is her pro-choice position, framed as "women's rights". 

But aside from that heinous position, can Ginsburg really be counted among that group?  "One of the greatest"?  Before any such title can be bestowed, it would help to review the purpose of a Supreme Court justice.  From Wisegeek:  "A Supreme Court Justice is a judge employed to decipher laws and ensure that the United States remains a land guided and governed by its most important body of law—the Constitution."  That's as decent a description as any can be and more than good enough here. 

Of course, in order to fulfill that obligation, a justice must have a good understanding of what the Constitution was created to do...what it means...why it exists.  Ginsburg was one of those goofy "living document" people, who felt the Constitution means whatever one needs it to mean.  This position allows a justice to legislate by forcing meaning into the Constitution that produces a desired result an activist justice favors. 

Ginsburg's low opinion of the Constitution is well documented.  She disabused Egypt of any thought of looking to it for ideas for how to craft their own, suggesting S. Africa's constitution is a better guide.  What could be more absurd? This piece from Cato back in 1993...

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/ginsburgs-troubling-constitution

...provides a more detailed look at her bad judgement, and thus her failure to do her job as it should be done.  Right from the start, her view of what a justice is meant to do should have disqualified her from the bench in the first place.  It is NOT the role of a justice to legislate...AT ALL!  Yet her belief that a justice does have such a role is why she was nominated by Bill Clinton and why lefties today revere her as "one of the greatest justices of the last 100 years".  The irony is that why lefties believe her to be one is why she is one of worst of all time.

A Crisis of Conscience?

 I'm voting my conscience.  That's what I'm hearing from a few conservative Christians who have stated they either won't vote for Trump, or aren't likely to.  Fortunately their conscience won't let the cast a vote for the Biden ticket, but the reality is that not voting for Trump <i>is</i> a vote for the Biden ticket.  And just as voting for Trump is in reality not simply voting for Trump, but rather, for a more conservative administration, letting Biden win is voting for a severely socialist agenda that is unquestionably harmful to our nation. 

The fall back position for these who feel this way is that regardless of the outcome in November, God is sovereign and whomever is elected is basically put their by God.  The excuse is to avoid doing nothing that does not honor God.  In short, vote one's conscience.  The irony in that with regard to this election is the candidate for which these gentlemen cannot vote and still be cool with their conscience is the president who has done much to protect rights of conscience as regards things like abortion and the LGBT agenda.  Conversely, the party that opposes this president is strongly in favor of denying Christians their right to act according to their conscience...of forcing Christians and other people of faith to act contrary to the teachings of their faith in behalf of abortion and LGBT "rights".  What this means is that the very act of "voting my conscience" will result in a greatly higher likelihood that their conscience will not be considered when faced with acting in support of that which conflicts with their faith.  They'll be forced to abide under penalty of law. 

Worse, others will be as well.  This was easily predicted...by me as well as by smarter people, demonstrating just how obvious it was at the time...that the Constitutionally enumerated rights of the faithful will be subordinated to the invented "rights" of the immoral.  This certainly is that which my own conscience cannot allow.  Thus, my displeasure with a candidate with the character and personality of Donald Trump is far outweighed by my displeasure and horror at having even more cultural decay codified into law, which is exactly what is in store should the Biden ticket prevail.  

And this is the point of this post:  how can one vote one's conscience if that vote results in so much that is presumably in conflict with one's conscience?   Let's back up and look again at what the choice is.  Donald Trump and Republican policy versus Joe Biden and Democrat policy.  That's the choice in the simplest terms.  There is no "third party", "write in" or "not voting for president".  There is only those two choices, because there is no chance whatsoever of any other option coming to fruition.  There is no overwhelming support for any third party or write in that will result in anything more than allowing one or the other of the two major party candidate win.  Thus, a vote for either is a vote for Biden if one is normally inclined to vote for the Republican candidate.  As such, every non-vote (that's what third party, write-in or not voting is) is a vote for the guy one likes least.  The greater of two evils as it were...in this case, Biden.

And what will we get with a Biden win?  THAT is what must be considered and because one is allowing that by deciding not to vote for the only guy capable of defeating Biden and what his party represents, how does one square that with one's conscience if voting one's conscience is the argument?  The Democrats are the party of:

Abortion

Sexual immorality

Heavy regulation on business which stifles growth and expansion

Heavy taxes which restricts one's ability to live one's life due to having hard earned monies reduced

Entitlements, the cost of which our descendants will be paying off for generations

Porous borders and all the ills that come with that, including threats from criminals and terrorists, added expense due to uneducated, unskilled people with no ability to be productive on behalf of their new country.

More anarchistic morons protesting violently without any notion of what they want or how to get it without costing actual productive citizens more of their hard earned money.

Less ability for people of faith to live their lives according to that faith.

Greater loss of liberties, such as freedom of speech, religion, association.

Less ability to protect one's self as more restrictions on gun ownership is codified.

A weakened military as Democrats are known for ignoring what's necessary to maintain and effective fighting force.

Anti-science policies such as the "Green New Deal" that are no more than new ways to redistribute the wealth of the producers for the sake of the takers.

Language distorted to mean whatever is needed by the left to push their agenda.

Socialism writ large.

These are just the overall problems a Biden win will impose upon us, and the list is neither comprehensively complete nor does it give one a clear notion of what any single point on the list means in detailed reality.  They're too broadly presented here and this post is not meant to give that detail, though it's easily found.  What I fear is that those who won't vote for Trump, despite their objections to the contrary, have not truly looked at what the Democrat Party is, so distracted are they with the comparatively insignificant foibles of one Donald J. Trump...foibles that in the grand scheme of things mean nothing, particularly at this stage and in light of his great track record thus far.  I do not support Trump's flaws.  God knows this.  Why would He not be honored by the reasons compelling my support for his presidency, and how could He possibly be honored by any Christian NOT voting for Trump given the alternative?  How can one's conscience not be screaming at the thought of what withholding a vote for Trump means to one's fellow Americans given what the Dems clearly have in store?

It doesn't matter what state one calls home and how blue it is.  There is only the choice between Trump/GOP and Biden/socialism.  No Christian can dismiss his duty to choose between the two and pretend to be honoring God. 

A man was on his roof while the flood waters rose.  He prayed that God would save him and as Donald Trump rowed up and offered a seat in his boat, the man waved him off saying, "God is sovereign and He will save me from the rising socialist waters and all the harm that will bring."  And the waters engulfed him.