9 Priests as Supreme Court Judges

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Don’t you think in Papal States there were more percentage of people adhering to Catholic doctrine than now?
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Of their own free will, probably not. People didn’t have any choice as far as religious matters were concerned. I doubt that many people living in the US today would want to live like that. Sounds like a bad nightmare.
 
To be honest? I wouldn’t want 9 priests with potentially zero legal training on the bench, just as I wouldn’t want Ginsburg, or Roberts or Thomas or Sotomayor to confect the Eucharist with no authority (or even knowledge in some cases) to do so. Even with all their manifold flaws, the SCOTUS are trained attorneys for a reason…
 
whatistrue said:
Even if they made it absolutely proscribed with the penalty of death attached, abortions would still happen. The way to stop abortion completely is to change minds and attitudes, not only laws.
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It should still be illegal.
 
edward_george1 said:
They will take up the case of people suing to end the Theocracy that you’ve created in your fictional story, at which point their consciences will lead them to realize that them serving on the Supreme Court is wrong and that they should resign.
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But before this can happen a serious communicable virus grips the world and is declared a pandemic. Mother President finds that she must unilaterally declare a state of marshall law to restrict the movement of people so as not to spread the virus.
 
The chamber would be where all arguments must henceforth be made in Gregorian chant. It’s a welcome change from the overly competitive back stabbing which is undergraduate pre professional school… Now voice coaching and the oft feared ambiguous “The Clerical Voice” panel of judges overtakes GPA as entrance criteria. Even dissenting opinions and case losers walk away feeling an even tempered sense of resignation to the inevitable euphoric sense of harmony…
 
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I never said or implied otherwise. Just that laws alone are not sufficient.
 
People want to put the world before God. Its supposed to be the opposite.
 
I think we are ignoring the elephant in the room.

What would happen?

They would be excommunicated and defrocked during their time as judges. It goes against Canon Law for a priest to hold public office.
 
What if, what if, what if. I have never liked what-if scenarios.
 
Oh, I mentioned that, but it was mostly glossed over. The OP though did make a comment on it:
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Even if they end abortion and save millions of babies? It is more important to follow the Canon?
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Oops. Sorry. I’m on my phone and it doesn’t have the best processing power. It must have glitched over that when it loaded the replies.
 
They would have be gone, long before they could do anything.

Supreme court justices don’t just decide to do something. They hear cases. And they decide On Those Cases.

So they would have to wait for an abortion case, from an effected party. By that time, oops,no longer priests.
 
whatistrue said:
I never said or implied otherwise. Just that laws alone are not sufficient.
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Laws would shut down places like Planned Parenthood (how long would they survive without abortion?). That’s a fantastic start.
 
Can someone please explain to me where I was unclear? I never said or implied that there should be no laws about abortion. Only that laws alone are not enough.
 
whatistrue said:
Can someone please explain to me where I was unclear? I never said or implied that there should be no laws about abortion. Only that laws alone are not enough.
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I know. I’m just pointing out that laws will have an enormous impact, larger than you may realize, and no one that I can see is offering that laws are enough.
 
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