From the Crusades of the Middle Ages, to the Spanish Inquisition, to the Salem, Mass., witch trials, to Bob Vander Plaats' efforts to deny gay rights, it seems that some "Christians" always need someone to bully, exclude or hate.You see, anybody who votes to not retain a judge anymore is part of a Crusade or an Inquisition or part of a Witch Trial, or who bullies, hates, and is narrow-minded.
The narrow-mindedness of these Christians is incredible. I thought Jesus preached love and inclusiveness, not hate and exclusiveness.
Heterosexuals have many problems. Birth rates to unwed heterosexual mothers have skyrocketed. One out of every two heterosexual marriages fails. Sexually transmitted diseases among heterosexuals are rampant. Delinquent child-support payments by heterosexual fathers are high.
The Christian book of faith speaks pages about immoral heterosexual behavior. Yet Vander Plaats' focus is on the gay/lesbian community. How do gays/lesbians contribute to any of the problems listed above?
That people like Vander Plaats will stop at nothing, even destroying the independent function of the Iowa Supreme Court as outlined in the Iowa Constitution, is scary.
- Sharon Walker, Cedar Falls
And if you're heterosexual, you have many problems.
So if anybody decides to ousts judges or justices, even though it's been perfectly legal to do so since 1962, you're destroying the independent function of the Iowa Supreme Court. A court whose members are chosen as finalists by the Iowa Judicial Review Commission, a group comprised of 86% Democrats and 7% Republicans.
Do I sound like a broken record yet? Because that's how I'm going to be about this. You will read these posts and you'll know these facts and figures, if you don't know them already, because I will repeat them endlessly.
Hey, Sharon Walker of Cedar Falls, do you think there might be any other reasons to get rid of Justice David Baker? Like how he refused to give any justice to killed pedestrian Abby Bowman in Cedar Rapids after a car ran over her? Baker wouldn't even revoke the killer's driver's license!
If people were truly concerned about that particular gaffe, wouldn't they have ousted him in 2006? or 2008 (whenever he was up for ousting.........how often are they up for removal?) If this was the first opportunity for ousting him, I still don't believe the car vs bike incident wouldn't have had anything to do with it; the voting public's memory is appallingly shortlived. IOW, if they gay marriage ruling hadn't occurred, would he have been ousted? I doubt it.
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