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Thursday, January 19, 2006
Tony Perkins: I don't read much
For some reason, some evangelicals really want to execute children. I can't begin to explain why. One, Tony Perkins loves to go on about the negative influence of international values on American jurisprudence:
Shakespeare's Merrie England has seen many a foolish romp, but none more foolish than the latest move of the Labor Party government to relax Britain's laws on prostitution. Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart explained that Prime Minister Tony Blair's government had decided to allow two prostitutes and a maid to operate out of a house. This liberalizes the law, which had previously permitted only one prostitute to ply her trade out of a single dwelling. "We will not eradicate prostitution overnight, but we must not condone this exploitative industry," said the Home Minister. No, Minister, responded Mike Judge of Britain's Christian Institute, that is exactly what the new law does. He said the new law was "a gift for pimps." Perhaps we should point out to Minister Mactaggart that a house is not a home. This is what passes for reform in the Mother of Parliaments, sad to say. Is this what our Supreme Court Justices mean when they say we would look to foreign law as precedent for our own? Chief Justice Roberts in last year's confirmation hearings firmly rejected the idea of relying on foreign law in interpreting our Constitution. So, most recently, did Judge Sam Alito. We hope Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Kennedy are listening.
"Precedent" is a legal term with a specific meaning. A foreign court decision is not a precedent in the United States. We'll forgive Perkins for being so sloppy. This time.
Notice, though, that Perkins is not upset that Scalia was relying on Greek values just this week. It's not really about foreign values. It's about results. It's a sad display of Perkins's values that he's so willing to mislead his followers.
