The Personalist Project
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Accessed on September 21, 2023 - 4:15:55
If the Supreme Court were to declare that there is no difference between a blessing and a curse or between idolatry and worship, would it make it so? Suppose it were to announce that to differentiate between testimony and perjury is to deny liars equal protection under the law? Suppose it were to equate, as a matter of law, a slap and a caress?
Can the court make it so that an act that deals death can form a family just as well and worthily as one that generates life? Can francium be rendered as stable as iron by judicial fiat?
When a human court says that slaves count as two fifths of a person, do they?
If it decreed a universal right for adults to devour children, would we have it? No.
What we would have is an evil government. A government at odds with natural law and with God—a kind of anti-government.
The Supreme Court doesn't create reality, but it can unleash chaos by pretending to, by defying the given in preference for the willed—by putting itself in the place of God. We are witnessing the reductio ad absurdum of the American experiment. Self government has become collaboration in our demise.