The nets are aflutter with talk of how the Supreme Court will decide whether Obamacare is constitutional, but as usual, this is mistaken. As a mere branch of the federal government, the Supreme Court is inferior to the Constitution and lacks the power to make something constitutional which is not. All the Supreme Court can do is decide the particular case brought before it, using the Constitution as one of many reference points.
Protestants founded America, and it's sad that a crucial aspect of the Protestant worldview has vanished from the public mind: high priests cannot monopolize the meaning of scripture or impair the right of the faithful to follow it. Once the Court has completed its work, the rest of us have the right and duty to uphold the Constitution as it is, not as the high priests of the Court believe it to be. Perhaps the Court will get it right, but perhaps not.
Protestants founded America, and it's sad that a crucial aspect of the Protestant worldview has vanished from the public mind: high priests cannot monopolize the meaning of scripture or impair the right of the faithful to follow it. Once the Court has completed its work, the rest of us have the right and duty to uphold the Constitution as it is, not as the high priests of the Court believe it to be. Perhaps the Court will get it right, but perhaps not.
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