Reply #178: Scalia declares 'democracy interferes with Divine Right of God's Rulers!!' [View All]

[JohnOneillsMemory]

The lie: The supreme court that appointed George W. Bush is defending the US Constitution and Democracy.

Fact: Supreme Court Jusice Antonin Scalia gives a speech in 2002 where he declares that democracy interferes with God's plans!!!!.
link: http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0205articles/scalia/html

"The mistaken tendency to believe that a democratic government, being nothing more than the composite will of its individual citizens, has no more moral power or authority than they do as individuals has adverse effects in other areas as well. It fosters civil disobedience, for example, which proceeds on the assumption that what the individual citizen considers an unjust law—even if it does not compel him to act unjustly—need not be obeyed. St. Paul would not agree. “Ye must needs be subject,” he said, “not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.”

"For conscience sake. The reaction of people of faith to this tendency of democracy to obscure the divine authority behind government should not be resignation to it, but the resolution to combat it as effectively as possible."