Letters: Justice David H. Souter's retirement

Wed, 05/06/2009 9:35 AM  |  Reader's Forum

The retirement of US Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter is critical to all Americans. Though Democrats are hoping for a younger liberal to replace him, conservative Republicans are praying Souter's decision will provide President Obama with the opportunity to rethink his personal pragmatism, to forgo some of his party's policies and to appoint a strictly constructionalist judge who will help restore to the country and its citizens the nation's founding Christian principles and values.

Decades of Godless Supreme Court decisions have created a culture of death in America that now sanctions and approves everything from contraception to abortion, homosexual activity, sex outside of marriage, divorce, sterilization, in-vitro fertilization, pornography, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, euthanasia and even false notions of a just war.

Without objective truth responsibility, evil, goodness and moral judgment lack any clear concept or manageable moral definition. Indeed, for the pragmatist immoral acts are often falsely elevated to the status of moral virtues under the description of the "right act" - that being the act required to bring about the "perceived" greater good.

Through man's conscience an anamnesis of the objective good and true is bestowed on us by God. The genuine word of conscience is not identical with one's own wishes and taste; nor is it identical with that which is more advantageous, socially speaking, with the consensus of a group or with the claims made by political or societal power.

In this time of great moral upheaval let us hope that President Obama will be moved by the grace of God - that he will hear the genuine voice of conscience and appoint someone to the US Supreme Court worthy of upholding Supreme values.

Paul Kokoski
Ontario, Canada

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