PRO-LIFERS: DON’T TRUST JOHN ROBERTS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

There’s a good (actually, "bad") chance that Judge John Roberts could prove to be another Sandra Day O’Connor.

Conservatives applauded former US President Ronald Reagan appointing O’Connor to the Supreme Court. The conservative rejoicing proved sad. She did not end up being on the conservatives’ side. Instead, she was most purposefully defending the feminists at practically every turn, which meant that she was not a conservative but a liberal on the court.

The same could very well happen with Roberts.

Why? Because mainly due to his temperament. I don’t mean that his personal temperament is to be conservative. I mean that his temperament is not to make waves. That’s how he has survived so handsomely to this date and this age. That’s how he could so smoothly proceed through committee inquiries. And that’s no doubt why US President George W. Bush put him where he is today. It’s because he doesn’t make waves. He is not going to cause a ruckus. He’s not a fighter, a warrior, a crusader.

If Mr. Bush had put up a fighter, warrior or crusader, the sniffing dogs on committee would have sniffed that out of the appointee immediately. Therefore, the Bush man or woman would have been thrown out with the morning’s trash. However, Mr. Bush presented Mr. Peace At Any Price.

Mr. Peace At Any Price is not going to overthrow Roe vs. Wade. Not on a chance. He just won’t do it mainly because it’s not his nature to do that sort of thing. In other words, it’s not his personal temperament. He’s more Mr. Handsome and Debonair than he is an example for morality or a defender of ethics. He is one who blends in, smiles a lot, and shakes hands with a gracious grip.

I believe that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was right on target when speaking on Fox News. Graham said, "Supreme Court nominee John Roberts cannot be counted on to vote to overturn the Roe versus Wade decision that legalized abortion."

True.

He can’t be counted on to do that. Therefore, when that issue comes to the fore with the court, conservatives, and pro-lifers in particular, will weep and wail. They will realize that their hope was hyperbole. They will be smacked with the reality that "their man" is not their man at all — and he never was.

Yes, he’s a family man. Yes, he’s a Roman Catholic. Yes, he’s a gentleman. Yes, he’s adored by the conservatives. But so what? That does not a fighter make. And Roberts is no fighter. Time will show that to be absolutely true, sadly enough.

Therefore, as far as Roberts is concerned, he will be more concerned about being polite than being morally correct. He will be more attuned to the popularity of his colleagues on the court than the Judgment Seat of Christ. He will be more in league with his own personal opportunism than the biblical ethic concerning defending the unborn.

Stay tuned.

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

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