Poor Chimpy, he just can’t seem to please everybody with his nomination of John “No, Innkeeper, that is my real name” Roberts to the Supreme Court. We on the left are worried that his positions on Roe v. Wade might be in line with his wife’s, now the right is up in arms because he helped arguments for the Romer v. Evans case that overturned a Colorado anti-gay initiative. Sure, he might be for protecting the “womb babies” from the “holocaust” of abortion, but what if one of those “womb babies” grows up to choose a “deviant lifestyle” that is an “abomination” to God?
(AP) WASHINGTON – A conservative group in Virginia said Tuesday it would oppose Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ confirmation because of his work helping overturn a Colorado referendum on gays.
“The move comes as a result of Roberts’ support for the radical homosexual lobby in the 1996 Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans, which overturned a pro-family law passed by the citizens of Colorado in an appalling act of judicial activism,” the group said in a news release. It planned a news conference for Wednesday in front of the Supreme Court.
The group’s president, Eugene Delgaudio, had said last week that if “Judge Roberts did provide advice on how to overturn this pro-family measure overwhelmingly supported by the people of Colorado, then Public Advocate calls on President Bush to withdraw his nomination of Judge Roberts immediately.”
The Colorado gay rights case involved Amendment 2, a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 1992 that would have barred laws, ordinances or regulations protecting gays from discrimination by landlords, employers or public agencies such as school districts.
Gay rights groups sued, and the measure was declared unconstitutional in a 6-3 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996.
Roberts’ role in the case included helping develop a strategy and firing tough questions during a mock court session at Jean Dubofsky, a former Colorado Supreme Court justice who argued the case on behalf of the gay rights plaintiffs.
NARAL Pro Choice America plans to start running television ads opposing Roberts on Wednesday, and other abortion rights groups including the National Organization for Women, the National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority all have announced their opposition to Roberts.
What kind of weird world is it when you have NARAL Pro Choice America and Public Advocate united in opposition to a Supreme Court nominee’s views?
