CACN, Fall 1997<\/p>\n
To hell with him.\u00a0 He died at 91 on 24 July, having been granted many long years to meditate upon his wicked life, repent, and receive the gift of eternal life in the Lord Jesus.\u00a0 Frank Murray summarizes his work on the Supreme Court as that which \u201cthe Warren court used to revamp American life and mores . . . He spent a lifetime defining the new freedoms he discovered\u201d in the Constitution, such as abortion and no capital punishment.\u00a0\u00a0 And he wanted to preserve this lunacy:\u00a0 \u201cThis legacy can and will withstand the test of time\u201d he said upon retiring in 1990 (Washington Times<\/em>, 25 July).<\/p>\n Such lofty “wisdom” proceeded from his courageous and brilliant pursuit of the big questions:\u00a0 \u201cThe ultimate question must be, I think, \u2018What do the words of the Constitution and Bill of Rights mean to us in our time?\u2019\u201d he explained in his thesis for a recent PBS documentary.<\/p>\n And what does hell mean for us moderns?\u00a0 Is it any different now from what it was at the foundations of the earth?\u00a0 Does one escape hell in 1997 any differently from the way one escaped it 1945?<\/p>\n Maybe the UN can be redeemed.\u00a0 Imagine.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy if you try.\u00a0 Sometime in the future, when the fires of a reformation purge the world of legalized childslaughter, seminars and symposiums will be convoked by the UN and all the Nazi-hunters could be gathered (Elie Wiesel foremost among them) for re-education.\u00a0 All that prosecutorial energy could be put to good use.\u00a0 Rather than chase down senescent Nazis, they could pursue neo-\u201cback-alley\u201d abortionists worldwide who continue to practice a re-criminalized trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CACN, Fall 1997 Justice William Brennan To hell with him.\u00a0 He died at 91 on 24 July, having been granted many long years to meditate upon his wicked life, repent, and receive the gift of eternal life in the Lord Jesus.\u00a0 Frank Murray summarizes his work on the Supreme Court as that which \u201cthe Warren […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}