More Stone Throwing
Geoffrey Stone TRIES to backtrack:
…I also acknowledge that the fact that all five Catholic Justices voted together in this case to make up the 5-to-4 majority might have nothing to do with their religion. These five Justices often vote together on matters having nothing to do with religion. Perhaps Carhart was just coincidence. Perhaps it was a reflection of their common approach to constitutional law that has nothing to do with their religious convictions. The point of my post was to pose the question and to invite people to think about it.
Whelan doesn’t let him GET AWAY with it, though.
Geoff Stone now tells us that his anti-Catholic tirade was intended merely to “pose the question” about what role the Catholic faith of the five justices in the majority played in their decision in the partial-birth abortion case. One problem with that claim is that Stone plainly was not posing the question. He was purporting to answer it, and his answer was (in ways that I have previously explained) ignorant and bigoted, though.
And Patterico ADDRESSES the question of whether or not Stone is misinterpreting the actual decision, completely seperate from the question of bigotry. (He thinks “yes,” just in case you were wondering. Actually, “Heck Yeah!” might be a better description.)
