Sitting judge takes liberals and feminists to task

By Phyllis Schlafly

"Marketing policy of the book publishing industry now calls for a catchy title followed by an explanatory subtitle. 'The Tyranny of Tolerance' was published this month with the subtitle: 'A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault.'

This sitting state court judge, Robert H. Dierker Jr., speaks from firsthand experience with some of the cases he discusses.

After he became a judge, Missouri's ban on partial-birth abortion came into his court in 2000. It became his duty to witness that gruesome procedure, and he might be the only judge who ever saw one.

The liberals usually claim they want an 'independent' judiciary, unbridled free speech, and tolerance for all points of view. Now they are trying to kill the messenger because they can't counter Dierker's copiously documented arguments.

Dierker asserts that 'illiberal liberals are at the root of the constitutional crisis we face today.' In a nutshell, they act as though '(h)istory and tradition count for nothing; the language of the Constitution itself counts for little; the only criterion is whether a ruling will advance the liberal agenda.' The false theory that the written text of the U.S. Constitution is 'evolving' has been used by the illiberals to transform obscenity, abortion and sodomy from crimes into constitutional rights. Their accomplice in judicial attacks on religion, the ACLU, Judge Dierker says, should be called the 'Anti-Christian Litigation Union.'" Read on...