Hostility to religion, political correctness plague courts, says Bork

Published: 2004-04-30

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (CNS) -- The U.S. Supreme Court displays "an intense hostility to organized religion," and many decisions handed down by the nation's lower courts today are based on political correctness, according to Judge Robert H. Bork. "A spirit of radical individualism which denies judicial sources of authority" is the big problem in the current culture war in U.S. society, Bork told more than 300 lawyers and judges at a breakfast following the Bridgeport Diocese's annual Red Mass for judges, lawyers and others in the legal profession April 25. A specific example, he said, is the Massachusetts Supreme Court's decision creating a right to same-sex marriage. The decision was "contrary to the state constitution and the judicial powers, and also the legislative and executive powers," said Bork, a former solicitor general and former acting attorney general of the United States whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate in 1987. Massachusetts "no longer has a government of laws but lawyers wearing judges' robes," he said.

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