Robertson Sees Courts -- Unless Reined In -- As Huge Threat to Nation's Future
by Allie Martin
October 26, 2004
(AgapePress) - The founder of the Christian Coalition says judicial activism is taking America down a road that will lead to destruction.In his new book Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court is Usurping the Power of Congress and the People, Pat Robertson outlines what he sees as the downward spiral of the court's current liberal agenda. He also examines the dangers of a culture with "no judicial limits" and uses dozens of legal cases to support his belief that the high court has distorted justice and defied the will of the people.
Christian, Robertson says, must speak up before it is too late. "The Bible uses the phrase 'at ease in Zion' -- and I think we are too comfortable," he says. "We've got lots of money, we've got real pretty churches, and we're driving nice, fancy cars -- and it's kind of like 'Why should I get involved? Let's not rock the boat.'"
The well-known Christian broadcaster laments that while Christians remain silent and inert, Americans' liberties are being stripped from them on an almost daily basis by the federal judiciary. "The [Supreme] Court is dead-set against religious values," he says. "Three of them are for us, five of them are against us."
Robertson says the problem can be corrected by returning to the original intent of the nation's founders and restoring justice at the highest levels of government. A change in the make-up of the nation's high court could also bring remedy. In that light, Robertson is convinced the upcoming presidential election could halt the liberal agenda of the Supreme Court.
"As far as I can tell, [Chief Justice William] Rehnquist and [Justice Sandra Day] O'Connor are going to get out this term. So that [creates] two vacancies: one conservative, one liberal," he explains. In addition, he says, it is possible that two other associate justices -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens -- could exit the court in the near future. "So the next president might well have four vacancies in the Supreme Court to be filled in the next four years," he says.
Such a scenario could result in what Robertson describes as a "radical shift" in the philosophy of the high court -- "and [it could] help us restore our religious traditions to our nation," he adds.
