Sunday, May 9, 2010

Why do people think the most important issues judges rule on is abortion and gay marriage?

Please name some issues, if you can, that you think might be of greater importance than abortion and gay marriage.Why do people think the most important issues judges rule on is abortion and gay marriage?
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Murder?


Industrial relations, sort-of.


Title rights-land usage?


Civil rights?


Rape?


Racism?


Sodomy?


Divorce?


Property claims?


Corporate governance?


Corporate malfeasance?


--shall we move on?


...........Why do people think the most important issues judges rule on is abortion and gay marriage?
By people, I assume you mean the right wingers. Ask yourself who is passing the gay marriage bans and who is protesting abortion. It's not the people on the left.





It seems that this particularly loathsome group of people are obsessed (and there simply no other way to put it) with other peoples' sex lives and medical decisions. In short, they are obsessed with power and control. More troubling than that, is the fact that this group seems to feel the government should pander to their obsession with power while claiming they desire the opposite.





These two issues seem to get religious extremists (in particular) to open up their wallets and pour billions into the coffers. Look at the people making a killing off these issues on both sides. They have a vested interest in keeping the fear/emotional appeals going.
They think that because it suits their purpose and its easy to stand on one side or another. And to a great degree it doesn't involve them.


Any man can be pro-life, and walk away from the consequences, any straight person can look on homosexuality as a sin and therefore want to ban gay marriage...it won't ever affect him or her.


We seem to be very judgmental about the things that don't affect us.


As in the idea that women somehow spread their legs and miraculously become pregnant by that very act...no man even has a responsibility according to some people.


Its easy to disdain someone elses, morality, that way you don't have to think about your own.


Other issues in the Supreme Court involve rights to privacy, in the home and reasonable expectations of privacy in hospitals and of ones medical records, They rule on constitutional issues and if the case has constitutional ties. Its a very complicated set of laws that when explained in simple sentences doesn't begin to cover the complexity of the cases. Like the Anna Nicole Smith case, not being one of inheritance, but of taxes due. You can read a sensational story in the paper, but the heart of the case is based on something else.
You're trying to make sense out of things the deeply religious want to believe. It's impossible.





Ask yourself this question. If life is created from a divine spark, and thus the act of removing a fetus from a womb is murder, how is removing that same spark by the killing of a criminal not the same act? With the exception of the Catholics, who for once have things right, the great majority of right to lifers are just fine with capital punishment.





These folks have made up a bunch of moronic claims about when life begins and murder, because they know they won't be listened to when their complaint is about their religion and God's work. And isn't it funny, that despite having control of the White House for most of the time since Lyndon Johnson, and the conservative dominated Supreme Court, that the Supremes continue to rule in favor of a woman's Constitutional right to her own body? It has to make the religionists nuts.





As for gays and marriage, there's nothing Christians are more scared of than ';queers';. It's irrational and stupid, but that kind of defines religion in the first place.





So for the folks who screech the loudest about these 2 issues, there's nothing at all more important than those issues.
That's a tough question. I honestly cannot think of a MORE important issue than the murder of literally MILLIONS of babies in the U.S. every year for no other reason than the mother willingly spread her legs when she shouldn't have and now doesn't wish to be ';hassled'; with the life she created so she decides to murder it, many of which do this several times.





This type of abortion is what the OVERWHELMING majority of abortions consist of in the U.S. every year.
Abortion is very important as it deals with the wrongful and moral injustice of taking an innocent life of a vulnerable person, it would be like saying the holocaust during WWII wasn't important. gay marriage however is not as important though I support it 110%. Something that is more important than both of these issues, would probably be nuclear weapons.
Because they are hot button issues that spawn heated deabtes at their mere mention and are an excellent way to shift focus from real issues such as unemployment and the deficit.





Cute name by the way, jackass.
The issues of corporate personhood have effected us most of any of the rulings. And right now, we have a very pro-corporate court.
I personally think these are the most important. When a country looses their morals then everything else will start to fall.
Moral standing of america is at steak thats why.
I don't. There are other things with MUCH broader application like free speech or general privacy rights that concern me more.
Those things you mentioned are just the things that tend to get so much more media coverage.
can't think of anything
obviously because they are the most controversial and they deal with ethics as well as religion, and pple are extremely passionate when it comes to ethic and religion. The health care system requires immediate attention. It makes no sense to live in one of the wealthiest countrys, but have the worst and most expensive health care of the nation. Also ending this war, we still have soldiers in Iraq. Why ponder on beliefs, when people's lives are at stack?
Neither gay marriage or abortion are important issues to me. Frankly, I'm sick of the great debates on both subjects and I think anyone who votes for someone based solely on either issue is ignorant.

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