The following comes from a Nov. 24 story on Cal Watchdog.
Governor Jerry Brown has nominated a U.S. Department of Justice official for a spot on the California Supreme Court.
On Monday, Brown nominated Leondra Kruger, a Yale Law School graduate, to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard, who left the court in April. If confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, Kruger would be Brown’s third appointee to the state’s highest court in as many years….
Democratic lawmakers were quick to embrace Kruger’s nomination to the position, which pays $225,342 per year.
“This is another outstanding appointment Governor Brown has made to the California Supreme Court,” Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, said in a prepared statement. “I look forward to Ms. Kruger’s voice on the court as all three branches of our government work to ensure justice for all Californians.”
The choice of Kruger is likely to draw the ire of religious groups that have battled with her over First Amendment rights. While at the Solicitor General’s office, Kruger represented the Obama administration in 12 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School vs. EEOC.
In Hosanna, Kruger argued that federal discrimination laws should be applied to religious organizations. Courts have long recognized a ministerial exception, which exempts religious institutions from anti-discrimination laws in hiring practices. Several justices openly scoffed at Kruger’s arguments to overturn the precedent.
“That’s extraordinary. That’s extraordinary,” Justice Antonin Scalia said in one exchange with Kruger during oral arguments. “We’re talking here about the Free Exercise Clause and about the Establishment Clause, and you say they have no special application.”
A unanimous Supreme Court ultimately upheld the school’s First Amendment right to exercise its religious beliefs.
“The interest of society in the enforcement of employment discrimination statutes is undoubtedly important,” Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote in the court’s opinion. “But so too is the interest of religious groups in choosing who will preach their beliefs, teach their faith, and carry out their mission.”
To read the entire story, click here.
Somehow it figures. The governor is pro-abort, pro-SSM, etc, and religion doesn’t seem to have ever bothered him (he was Jesuit-trained after all and no bishop has bothered with Canon 915 regarding his errant ways).
It only makes sense that he would appoint someone like himself, doesn’t it?
Who is the Governor’s Diocese Bishop ?
This Bishop is responsible for all the Catholic Souls within his own Diocese. –
This includes: teaching; correcting; and disciplining those who choose to remain obstinate in mortal sin.
Discipline means “No Holy Communion”.
1 Cor 11:27-30
Canon 915
Also see Sacrilege, and Scandal in the CCC.
Brown’s primary residence is Oakland. At his ordination and installation ceremony/ Mass, Bishop Barber extolled Brown’s Jesuit roots and then personally gave him communion.
Pray for our compromised bishops. More wounds to the Mystical Body of Christ. Canon law 915 does not matter. Laws regarding illegal immigration do not matter. The only thing that seems to matter are the laws of comfort and the laws of convenience which both lead to spiritual neglect and collapse.
Priests are not disciplining pro-abortion legislators when they enforce this Canon law; they are protecting the Eucharist from sacrilege.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, III:q 80: article 6
“A distinction must be made among sinners: some are secret; others are notorious, either from evidence of the fact, as public usurers, or public robbers or from being denounced as evil men by some ecclesiastical or civil tribunal. Therefore Holy Communion ought not to be given to open sinners when they ask for it.”
Matthew 10: 31] Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows. [32] Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. [33] But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. [34] Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. Douay-Rheims
California Family Alliance has highlighted Some of the cases/ Causes these New Justices for our Turkey Baster Creationist Courts will be fattening up:
SEE
Recent cases demonstrate religious freedom threats
https://californiafamilyalliance.org/TWIC2014.11.24.html
BY LORI ARNOLD, RESEARCH ANALYST
In the run up to the November 2008 vote on Proposition 8—in which California voters rightly decided that natural marriage was the only legitimate form of matrimony—the amendment’s supporters warned that the ramifications of homosexual marriage would extend well beyond those unions to ultimately include a direct assault on religious liberties.
During the campaign, the Protect Marriage coalition, led by California Family Council and other pro-family organizations, was labeled as histrionic, paranoid and disingenuous for trying to link same-sex marriage to the loss of religious freedoms.
History, unfortunately, has vindicated us…
– Unfortunately, the happenings in Houston and Coeur d’Alene are just the latest in a series of events that seek to silence the church and other opposition to the progressive LGBT movement. In California schools, for instance, educators have muzzled the rights of students and parents through a variety of laws, including:
Assembly Bill 1266, which allows transgender students at all grade levels to select their sports teams, restrooms and locker rooms based on their own perceived “gender identity,” rather than their biological sex.
Senate Bill 48, which requires public schools to teach about societal contributions made by homosexuals by modifying textbooks, It also prohibits the use of any materials that puts gays, lesbians and transgenders in a negative light.
Has the Catholic Catholic Bishops’ Conference contacted the Governor and other CA elected Officials regarding this matter ?
If not why not, since freedom of religion is in the CCC?
Send this article to your own Diocese Bishop immediately.
Keep the email address to your own Diocese Bishop in your email address book to use as needed.
You can usually find your Bishop’s email address on your Diocese web site, or you can contact the Diocese office to get it.
This woman puts the government above GOD.
Look where we are headed. Brown was a Jesuit seminarian, and see how liberal and crazy he is in regards Catholic morality. Look at the leadership in the Church. The Jesuits are responsible for leading souls astray. May God have mercy on them for the scandal and the evil they promote.
Yale doesn’t apparently teach much regarding the US Constitution. Wonder which constitution they study?
JP Wonders “Which Constitution they study?”
There are Several ‘living constitutions’ that have been substituted for The Constitution- by the Turkey Baster Creationist Gaystapo who pretty much control the Courts, Legal System and the pathetic farce of Academentia – and most importantly who gets to graduate from ‘Law School’.
I once had a ‘Constitutional Law Professor’ at McGeorge Law in Sacramento tell me that I was ‘Lucky’ that exams were graded based on Anonymous Number ID, because he would have worked to see I never passed a test (Graduated with Distinction, Passed the CA Bar 1st time) or graduated – due to Political Incorrectness.
Fortunately, I had a Good Con-Law Prof (Papa Kelso) who was amazingly fair and even handed – which would have gotten him in to much trouble if he hand’t already achieved Tenure.
The Original Constitution was a Contract between Govt. & Citizens – with provisions to lawfully amend it (Like the People of CA did with theirs on Prop-8) – but the Turkey Baster Creationist coven sees it as malleable putty to be shaped in to a political tool for their triumph BAMN – By Any Means Necessary.
I recommend reading Judge Janice Law’s book “Sex Appealed – Was the US Supreme Court Fooled?” – about the huge scams in the Lawrence v. Texas Sodomy decision
&
Judge Robert Dirker on “The Tyranny of Tolerance”
Both detail how the ‘Constitution’ gets shredded for kitty litter whenever the ObamAcorns want to dump something new and ugly on the American people.
Of course Acorn had nothing to do with any of the court cases including Lawrence, and Obama wasn’t even President then. But never let facts get in the way of a McDermott yarn. Congrats on passing the bar. How’s the legal career working out for you?
Obama was the attorney and promoter for ACORN – the group who put in thousands of illegal names and used false identities for Voter registrations.
YFC, you can not protect OBAMA from his signature promotion of the murdering of the most innocent.
And since OBAMA loves abortion, loves contraception, and loves voluntary sterilization, – all at taxpayer expense, he probably would not want you to try to downplay his best achievements.
And of course both you YFC (Your Fellow Catholic) and Obama support Sodomy Marriage.
You are a heretic, YFC, and you should call yourself “Your heretical Catholic” if you did not want to deceive (lie).
Both you and Obama hope to send Souls to Hell.
Jill, here’s an independent assessment of the things you allege about Obama and Acorn. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/oct/17/sorting-truth-obama-acorn/
YFC, I checked out your link. It is not an independent assessment about Obama and his representing the national organization of ACORN when he was in Chicago.
Your link is from the Tampa Times. I am from the Tampa area, and can tell everyone it is notoriously in favor of Democrats.
https://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaACORN.htm
This appointment is even more serious than first thought. Without question, Ms. Kruger lacks intellectual vigor, and, likely, capacity. Given her simply ignorant argument in the Lutheran Church case (which went against the government in an unanimous decision), and her Nazi-like allegiance to political ends, Ms. Kruger must be opposed at all costs.
Although it is unlikely that she will fail to get a seat, the abject disdain of Governor Brown, and of the Democratic Party in general, for religion and for “traditional” constitutional principles, must be highlighted to the public. This is the kind of justice that will author opinions qualifying the bedrock American principles that protect all of us. Kruger is obviously an “affirmative action” hire — wait, wait: are you saying that this is wrong? What about our own President, Mr. Went-to-Columbia-went-to-Harvard-Law, who never shows a grade or how he earned these schools (and becoming Editor of the Law Review at Harvard).
And that is the American way with the Liberals (and Democratic Party): staff all appointed positions with people that are loyal, but not too bright. Kind of like the professors that tell college students that raise constitutional principles into their class-room discussions — like opposition to abortion or to homosexual marriage — that they are free to drop their classes (but never to discuss this issues). True Catholic thinking is being tarred by these fools.
POTUS Barry ‘Down Low’ Soetoro has not only concealed his background in Academentia – but also the ‘Sealed Legal Settlement’ of His Homosex Harassment of Men while at Havad.
The wholesale destruction of the supposed ‘Justice’ system in post weimar amerika is proceeding just as fast as these Misandrist can push it up the Public Wazoo
SEE
Same-sex civil ceremonies driving NC magistrates from their posts
By Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com) 11/26/14
There may be help for North Carolina magistrates who don’t want to conduct same-gender “marriage” ceremonies, but it won’t come for several months.
So far at least 16 magistrates who perform marriage ceremonies have resigned or retired since court rulings legalized homosexual marriage in North Carolina. Ten of those who left their position did so because conducting same-sex ceremonies would violate their faith.
John Rustin, president of the North Carolina Family Policy Council, tells OneNewsNow that Senate President Pro-Tem Phil Berger objects to a memo from a state agency requiring the magistrates to perform the ceremonies.
“Senator Berger has argued the issue with the Administrative Office of the Courts, and we agree with Senator Berger that these magistrates should have flexibility,” he says.
“They should not be forced to violate their deeply held religious beliefs because religious freedom is one of the most fundamental tenets of our U.S. and state Constitutions.”
Note the Alinskyite Mau Mauing by one of ‘your favorite’ Homosex Trolls on this board.
No need to address the ‘topic’ – as that might lead to Politically Un-Good forms of thinking and sharing of Factual Information.
Rather – as befits the Resident Harpy Homosex Trolls who roost here – the poster goes directly after another By Name, with Personal Insults…
The Better to create the dreamed of ‘Flame Wars’ that subvert and change the nature of the discussion in to the Alinskyite Ad-Hominem attacks on the Individual; which even if it does not Silence the Target – makes others Afraid of Becoming Targets themselves.
Such is the nature of ‘tolerance training’ in this Age of Abomination.
Remember – Pander or Perish = the ‘gospel’ of the Gaystapo!
Re.: “which even if it does not Silence the Target – makes others Afraid of Becoming Targets themselves”!
Also RE.: “which even if it does not Silence the Target – makes others Afraid of Becoming Targets themselves! Of course, if that is the case, they should never have been bishops in the first place, they certainly aren’t in the School of St. Athanasius The Great!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
One of the great mistakes by a Pope was the restoration of the Jesuits by Pope Pius VII in 1814 after they had been suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773. One can only wonder just how many Catholics had their faith destroyed by attending Jesuit schools and seminaries.
Should Christian clergy stop signing marriage certificates?
By John Stonestreet https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/should-christian-clergy-stop-signing-marriage-certificates1
The next several years are going to be messy for Christians. We already know that some who claim to be within our fold will continue to challenge the historic, orthodox teaching about sexuality, marriage, and the essence of what it means to be made in the image of God. But even those of us who agree that marriage is what the church has always thought it was, will disagree on how best to move forward in a culture hell-bent on denying it.
Case in point: Over at First Things, a premier publication of Christian thought, Ephraim Radner and Christopher Seitz have offered what they refer to as “The Marriage Pledge,” calling clergy of all stripes to no longer sign government documents of civil marriage. To be a “clear witness,” they have decided they “will no longer serve as agents of the state in marriage” because to do so would be to “implicate the Church in a false definition of marriage.”
Why do you want Catholics to be punished ?
Why should we be forced to have two marriages – one civil and then another sacramental ?
This is not only time consuming but more expensive, and could lead many to merely skip the Sacramental Marriage.
The government should not interfere in religious beliefs, nor allow others to force their own immoral beliefs upon others.
Neither Ephraim Radner and Christopher Seitz are Catholic.
It would be better for all who believe in marriage between one man and one woman to stick together politically – and stop elected Democrats and others who want to force everyone to conform to sodomy marriage.
April says: “Why do you want Catholics Punished… forced to have two ceremonies… Leading many to skip the Sacramental.”
You should check the local Civil Marriage Laws in your jurisdiction, but the proposal is Not about Punishing Catholics – Rather it is about Freeing the Church & Faithful from Tainting their Sacramental Marriage with the types of sick hatreds and vile perversions driving the SSAD Gaystapo.
In at least some jurisdictions – the ‘civil marriage’ is not a Ceremony, just the filing of papers making the Benefits legal. This is one of the main reasons that the Gaystapo have targeted Marriage – so as to pay for the treatment consequences of both the Pathological nature of the ‘Conga Line of Buggery’ (providing free health benefits to ‘Bug Chasers’ and such)…
And the Turkey Baster Creationist coven – who want to make sure that Children grow up without knowing of even the Existence of their Other Parent – such as a Boy’s Birth Certificate showing only Two Dykes (one or more of which may impersonate the ‘Father’) and No Daddy… As part of their Separatist / Neo-Exterminationist Pogrom of ‘Death to the hated Hetero-Patriarchy’.
A Sacramental Marriage is One Before God (The God – that our Atheist State forbids recognizing as having anything to do with Marriage) – and nobody is required by the State to have a Church ‘Wedding’ to get the Benefits…
The State Hates the Church and wants to force it to Pander to such Evil Bamn.
No, there has to be a civil ceremony, by a legitimate government representative authorized to preform such a marriage.
The corruption of the greatest is the worst!
I bet that a majority of the Catholics in California voted for Jerry Brown.
I’d bet they voted for Jerry Brown as well.