Prayers for Rehnquist

[really annoyed]

Just pass midnight and praying on the steps on the Supreme Court for the passing of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist are from left to right, Brandi Swindell, Cheryl Conrad, Barbara Gough Katie Mahoney and Rev. Patrick Mahoney, Sunday Sept. 4, 2005 in Washington, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening of cancer, ending a remarkable 33-year tenure on the Supreme Court and creating a rare second vacancy on the nation's highest court. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)



Um... Do you think these people prayed for the hurricane victims?

And just so everybody knows... This is not a thread started for bashing Rehnquist. I am just trying to make the point that the death of Rehnquist will take away attention from the victims of hurricane katrina.

Also, I thought it was odd that this group of people popped up at the Supreme Court for a prayer session so late.

[MadeinOhio]

1. Crazed people in action......

Rhenquist was a racist callous fucker who deserves no sympathy.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. I pray the hurricane victims meet up with him on the bus to heaven

make him sit at the back and then block the gates of it shut when he attempts to enter...just as he would have had it here on earth for them

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Do Swindell and Rev. Mahoney have a home?

Because they're always hanging out in front of the Supreme Court.

[really annoyed]

6. Ah, I see now

I take it they are conservatives or rally for conservative issues?

[nemo137]

15. yeah, looks like.

seems that the kid second from left has a Rock for Life shirt on.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. Swindell's main issue is abortion.

And you may have seen Mahoney during the Schiavo debacle. He's the bald guy with the beard who kept shouting.

[BQueen]

4. mmmmkay...but I don't think it will do any good n/t

[hiley]

5. revolting

:puke:

[Erika]

7. He was a loon who approved of orgies

Yes, I wish him and his family peace but his activsm in overturning the vote of the American people cast us into hell.

[Charlie Brown]

8. Are some of you saying that Rehnquist is personally responsible for NO?

Why do so many people on this board become vitrolic whenever a prominent conservative dies?

[neweurope]

9. You are right - we shouldn't be vitriolic when conservatives die.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[really annoyed]

11. You missed my point

I'm sorry that he died. But I'm also sorry that his death will take away attention from the hurricane victims.

[Charlie Brown]

12. That may be true, but it's hardly his fault or his family's n/t

[really annoyed]

14. Of course not

It will be the media. And like I mentioned before, my sympathy is with the family. But it doesn't mean I'm going to completely forget the many deaths in the Gulf Coast, either.

[gort]

10. Pat Robertson's just proved there is a God

He did pray for a Supreme Court Justice to die and looks like his prayers were answered.

"Jesus is Magic!"-Sarah Silverman

[Behind the Aegis]

13. Well...

...Robertson did say there was a problem with activist judges...guess Pat got confused who was a real activist judge.

[anitar1]

17. I think it was a photo op.

[daleo]

18. Wow, five people!

And luckily for them a photographer from a major news bureau happened to be walking by.

[Skidmore]

19. Were these prayers for his soul or prayers of thanksgiving

that he finally got out of the way?

[Prism]

20. I'm tired of this

"Um... Do you think these people prayed for the hurricane victims?"

Yes, yes I do.

I'm getting real sick and tired of the derision directed at the simple humanity of political opponents. Look, I didn't particularly like Renquist. He had opinions that were not my own.

But he is a human being, and I don't believe he formed his beliefs and opinions with malice, but with his personal conviction of what he believed the Constitution meant.

There are people who sincerely, wholesomely believe in his interpretation, his duty, his accomplishments. Do you or I? No, not necessarily.

But, wait, they liked Renquist, and so obviously they're freepers who don't give a shit about the hurricane victims. No, no, they're just unfeeling, uncaring, self-involved, "kill the poor!" right-wingers.

Your powers of intuition from a single photograph are far more powerful than my own. I see people saddened by the death of a man they admired. You see all kinds of things, apparently, that allows you to judge them negatively. Oh, to have your psychic powers.

This kind of stuff makes it severely difficult to call myself a liberal. I've been sitting through the hurricane threads, saying little to nothing, watching the demagoguery, the unfounded assertions, the sheer lunacy of various conspiracy theorems. But, I know these things are meant from a sincerity of feeling, from a frustrated desire to do good.

But this bs, this little comment, is about hatred. Pure, unbridled intolerance and disdain for anyone who believes any differently.

And, as I often ask, that makes people different from religious fundamentalists how exactly?

Color me pissed and disgusted.

I'm just so sick of these attitudes. And "the other side does it too!" is not a justification for it. We make our own choices about the kind of people we are.

[mogster]

21. Well, take into consideration what he said and did

He was responsible for Bush takeover in 2000.

He said this about Democrats (democracy):

"Republicans and conservatives can best advance the cause of civility by working hard to finish off the hopes of the Democrats for any return to power. It is like neutering barnyard animals: they are much calmer, less likely to cause damage, and easier to control. As the vet says, "They will be happier; this is good for them." " -Grover Norquist

I was at your level when Falwell had a heart attack earlier. 'Oh, dear, we must behave nicely, the man is sick'.
Now I've changed my mind. Let's celebrate every fucker that goes, because they do the same.

Besides, this was a photo op if I ever saw one.

> This kind of stuff makes it severely difficult to call myself a liberal. I've been sitting through the hurricane threads, saying little to nothing, watching the demagoguery, the unfounded assertions, the sheer lunacy of various conspiracy theorems. But, I know these things are meant from a sincerity of feeling, from a frustrated desire to do good.

> But this bs, this little comment, is about hatred. Pure, unbridled intolerance and disdain for anyone who believes any differently.

I take it that you do believe differently, then? ;-)