Comments on: Scalia Wears Martyr’s Cap to Inauguration

By: Dixibehr

Dixibehr — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:25:51 +0000

Cathy, can you give the actual number of Protestants killed by the Spanish Inquisition?

Bet you can’t!

Actually, the total number of people executed under the auspices of the Spanish Inquisition during the 300 years of its activity in Spain was only 3,000. Common criminals would claim to be heretics because the conditions in the Inquisition’s jails were better than in the secular jails.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:01:28 +0000

Fr. Theodore,
The Catholic Inquisition killed many Protestants!
We always throw back the Catholics killed in England and the Catholic Persecution, but that was mild compared to the Heretics that were killed! This was a time we should forget! Amen

By: Monk Theodore

Monk Theodore — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:59:02 +0000

Mr. Lofton:

Careful with that triumphal attitude – Protestants killed Catholics and other Protestants in persecutions. It was the way things were done then. We can be glad we don’t do it now, but nobody gets a pass on misdirected efforts back then.

Fr Theodore
Orthodox Monk

By: Karen Salstrom

Karen Salstrom — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:39:29 +0000

Ah, yes….Free Speech is afforded to even Justice Scalia.

I LOVE IT!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:10:54 +0000

When I heard reporter wondering about the Jusitce’s unusual hat I glanced at the TV and immeduitely recognized it as the hat pictured on Saint Thomas More the Patron of Religious Freedom.

We ae forming Freedom of Religion groups in churches to educate and advocate to restore that feedom and preserve it for generations to come.

We open our meetings with a prayer that St Thomas More will guide our actions in defense of God given religious liberty.

Wearing that distinctive hat to the inauguration was a clear statement of criticism for this president’s attack on our 1st amendment Freedom of Religion.

Well done!

By: John Lofton

John Lofton — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:58:47 +0000

I, as a Protestant, Bible-believing Calvinist, found the most interesting thing about Scalia’s hat to be that he is honoring a man who murdered Christians. As the Thomas More Society website notes re: More:

“More had six Protestants burned at the stake and ordered the imprisonment of as many as forty others. His chief concern in this matter was to root out collaborators of William Tyndale, the exiled Lutheran scholar who in 1525 had published an English translation of the Bible, which was circulating clandestinely among English Protestants.”

Praise God for the triumph of the Reformation!

John Lofton
JLof@aol.com

By: Matt Bowman

Matt Bowman — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:57:37 +0000

The “actual facts” are that a Catholic Supreme Court justice wore the hat of a religious freedom martyr to the inauguration of a famously lawbreaking attacker of Catholic religious freedom. The actual facts are not that his hat has anything to do with a 23-year-old court case. The actual fact is also that even a Smith supporter can be consistent in criticizing Obama’s trampling of federal laws protecting religious freedom. The actual facts are that Obama’s attacks on religious freedom are illegal under RFRA, Smith, and pre-Smith law. The word “restoration” in the title of RFRA does not alter any of these facts.

By: Charles Knight

Charles Knight — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:49:25 +0000

I agree.
What a comment.
Quiet, yet there and prominently presented.
Would that others might look to see what the facts are before they open their mouths.

Blessings,

Charlie

By: Michael PS

Michael PS — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:08:54 +0000

Nothing in Smith restricts the religious beliefs of individuals; it excludes their intervention in, or impact on, the relations between private individuals and public authorities and obliges individuals to respect common rules in these relations. If the rights of citizens are to vary in accordance with their religious affiliations, how is the republic one and indivisible?

By: Ethan Clarke

Ethan Clarke — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:58:52 +0000

In Sodom and Gomorah God couldn’t find ten just men. In America today we have [suprisingly]found…at least one. May God bless Justice Scalia-!