As demonstrated in the last section of this book, the stories Christian conservatives told me after Obergefell revealed a good deal of fear and anxiety over the direction of a legal culture that subverted the very foundations of a Christian nation founded upon a Christian constitution. Christian conservatives believed this subversion of America’s Christian heritage was caused by the Supreme Court. They spoke about a “personnel problem” on the court—villainous secular humanist Supreme Court Justices, who had rejected God’s leadership over the nation—as well as an “interpretation problem”—the fact that those secular humanist judges were using ungodly, and even un-Christian, legal theories such as living constitutionalism, historicism, and moral relativism. Together, the personnel and interpretation problems led to court decisions that, Christian conservatives believed, produced a hostile political and legal climate for them and bad policy outcomes for the nation. In fact, this progressive legal climate, my respondents alleged, was tending toward a totalitarian regime bent on repressing and even persecuting Christian conservatives.

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Restoring the Foundations: Christian Conservative Legal Theory

  • Jason E. Whitehead

摘要

As demonstrated in the last section of this book, the stories Christian conservatives told me after Obergefell revealed a good deal of fear and anxiety over the direction of a legal culture that subverted the very foundations of a Christian nation founded upon a Christian constitution. Christian conservatives believed this subversion of America’s Christian heritage was caused by the Supreme Court. They spoke about a “personnel problem” on the court—villainous secular humanist Supreme Court Justices, who had rejected God’s leadership over the nation—as well as an “interpretation problem”—the fact that those secular humanist judges were using ungodly, and even un-Christian, legal theories such as living constitutionalism, historicism, and moral relativism. Together, the personnel and interpretation problems led to court decisions that, Christian conservatives believed, produced a hostile political and legal climate for them and bad policy outcomes for the nation. In fact, this progressive legal climate, my respondents alleged, was tending toward a totalitarian regime bent on repressing and even persecuting Christian conservatives.