A Murder That Altered The Constitution

[TheGreatGatsby]

Murder is murder regardless if the murder was motivated by differences in race , faith , religion or politics.

Clearly, you haven't heard of hate crimes, then. It's when a white person "wrongs" a brown person.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Murder is murder regardless if the murder was motivated by differences in race , faith , religion or politics.

Clearly, you haven't heard of hate crimes, then. It's when a white person "wrongs" a brown person.

German court calls synagogue torching an act to 'criticize Israel'

 

[danielpalos]

Many complaints have been generated by the lack of vetting that Democrat/Liberals undergo....as compared to Republicans or conservatives do.
Vetting: make a careful and critical examination of one's qualifications and/or background.

Obama's, for example, was minimal...but....
When Sarah Palin arrived as a threat....

"Investigative Reporters Head to Alaska.... Alaska's getting pretty crowded...with investigative reporters and scandal-chasers."
Investigative Reporters Head to Alaska...And When Will Sarah Palin Meet the Press?



The following story, while of the same nature as above, the lack of scrutinizing, is far, far more significant. It also involves a Democrat, and lack of vetting.
..... the lack of careful investigation that changed America.

1. "When she was twelve years old, Ruth Stephenson was found sitting on the porch of the rectory of St. Paul’s Church in Birmingham, Alabama. She lived about a block away and was very attracted by the quiet faith of Catholics as they entered and left their church each day of the week. By chance, Ruth’s father happened by, saw her talking with the pastor, Fr. James Coyle, and peremptorily ordered her home."
The Murder of a Priest

2. Ruth's father was the Reverend Edwin Stephenson, "a minister of the now defunct Methodist Episcopal Church, South and a member of the Ku Klux Klan."
Sharon Davies, "Tragedy in Birmingham", Columbia Magazine, vol. 90, no. 3 (March 2010), p. 31.

"Last winter (when she was 18) he had whipped Ruth for staying out past nine thirty....On another occasion he had locked is daughter in her room for three days without food or water....Stephenson had joined in the lynching of an African American in 1902.....later he had shot a barber in his hometown of Birmingham."
Senator Mike Lee, "Our Lost Constitution," p. 89-90

3. During the summer of 1921, Stephenson went looking for his daughter, and went to the porch of the rectory of St. Paul’s Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and confronted the pastor, Fr. James Coyle.
"Where is my daughter?"
"With her husband."
"Well, my girl isn't married!!"
Coyle: "Your girl is a catholic, and she is married...I married her this evening."
"To whom???"
"...Pedro Gussman...a Catholic."
Gussman had once worked hanging wallpaper for Stephenson.



4. Stephenson had been famous for wishing "the whole Catholic institution was in hell!"
....now, his daughter married to a Catholic....and a Puerto Rican one at that!!!
"You have married her to that n***er! You...dirty, low down, yellow dog!"
Three shots rang out, and the unarmed Father James Coyle lay dead.
The Ku Klux Klan sprang into action arranging for a legal 'dream team' for Stephenson."
Ibid.



You'll never guess who the lead lawyer was....and how flimsy his vetting was.
But....he's pretty important in American history, and in the advancement of Democrat policy.

special pleading much? how did that actually change the Constitution?

It altered the first amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Only an amendment can alter our Constitution.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Many complaints have been generated by the lack of vetting that Democrat/Liberals undergo....as compared to Republicans or conservatives do.
Vetting: make a careful and critical examination of one's qualifications and/or background.

Obama's, for example, was minimal...but....
When Sarah Palin arrived as a threat....

"Investigative Reporters Head to Alaska.... Alaska's getting pretty crowded...with investigative reporters and scandal-chasers."
Investigative Reporters Head to Alaska...And When Will Sarah Palin Meet the Press?



The following story, while of the same nature as above, the lack of scrutinizing, is far, far more significant. It also involves a Democrat, and lack of vetting.
..... the lack of careful investigation that changed America.

1. "When she was twelve years old, Ruth Stephenson was found sitting on the porch of the rectory of St. Paul’s Church in Birmingham, Alabama. She lived about a block away and was very attracted by the quiet faith of Catholics as they entered and left their church each day of the week. By chance, Ruth’s father happened by, saw her talking with the pastor, Fr. James Coyle, and peremptorily ordered her home."
The Murder of a Priest

2. Ruth's father was the Reverend Edwin Stephenson, "a minister of the now defunct Methodist Episcopal Church, South and a member of the Ku Klux Klan."
Sharon Davies, "Tragedy in Birmingham", Columbia Magazine, vol. 90, no. 3 (March 2010), p. 31.

"Last winter (when she was 18) he had whipped Ruth for staying out past nine thirty....On another occasion he had locked is daughter in her room for three days without food or water....Stephenson had joined in the lynching of an African American in 1902.....later he had shot a barber in his hometown of Birmingham."
Senator Mike Lee, "Our Lost Constitution," p. 89-90

3. During the summer of 1921, Stephenson went looking for his daughter, and went to the porch of the rectory of St. Paul’s Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and confronted the pastor, Fr. James Coyle.
"Where is my daughter?"
"With her husband."
"Well, my girl isn't married!!"
Coyle: "Your girl is a catholic, and she is married...I married her this evening."
"To whom???"
"...Pedro Gussman...a Catholic."
Gussman had once worked hanging wallpaper for Stephenson.



4. Stephenson had been famous for wishing "the whole Catholic institution was in hell!"
....now, his daughter married to a Catholic....and a Puerto Rican one at that!!!
"You have married her to that n***er! You...dirty, low down, yellow dog!"
Three shots rang out, and the unarmed Father James Coyle lay dead.
The Ku Klux Klan sprang into action arranging for a legal 'dream team' for Stephenson."
Ibid.



You'll never guess who the lead lawyer was....and how flimsy his vetting was.
But....he's pretty important in American history, and in the advancement of Democrat policy.

special pleading much? how did that actually change the Constitution?

It altered the first amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Only an amendment can alter our Constitution.

If only.

 

[danielpalos]

Many complaints have been generated by the lack of vetting that Democrat/Liberals undergo....as compared to Republicans or conservatives do.
Vetting: make a careful and critical examination of one's qualifications and/or background.

Obama's, for example, was minimal...but....
When Sarah Palin arrived as a threat....

"Investigative Reporters Head to Alaska.... Alaska's getting pretty crowded...with investigative reporters and scandal-chasers."
Investigative Reporters Head to Alaska...And When Will Sarah Palin Meet the Press?



The following story, while of the same nature as above, the lack of scrutinizing, is far, far more significant. It also involves a Democrat, and lack of vetting.
..... the lack of careful investigation that changed America.

1. "When she was twelve years old, Ruth Stephenson was found sitting on the porch of the rectory of St. Paul’s Church in Birmingham, Alabama. She lived about a block away and was very attracted by the quiet faith of Catholics as they entered and left their church each day of the week. By chance, Ruth’s father happened by, saw her talking with the pastor, Fr. James Coyle, and peremptorily ordered her home."
The Murder of a Priest

2. Ruth's father was the Reverend Edwin Stephenson, "a minister of the now defunct Methodist Episcopal Church, South and a member of the Ku Klux Klan."
Sharon Davies, "Tragedy in Birmingham", Columbia Magazine, vol. 90, no. 3 (March 2010), p. 31.

"Last winter (when she was 18) he had whipped Ruth for staying out past nine thirty....On another occasion he had locked is daughter in her room for three days without food or water....Stephenson had joined in the lynching of an African American in 1902.....later he had shot a barber in his hometown of Birmingham."
Senator Mike Lee, "Our Lost Constitution," p. 89-90

3. During the summer of 1921, Stephenson went looking for his daughter, and went to the porch of the rectory of St. Paul’s Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and confronted the pastor, Fr. James Coyle.
"Where is my daughter?"
"With her husband."
"Well, my girl isn't married!!"
Coyle: "Your girl is a catholic, and she is married...I married her this evening."
"To whom???"
"...Pedro Gussman...a Catholic."
Gussman had once worked hanging wallpaper for Stephenson.



4. Stephenson had been famous for wishing "the whole Catholic institution was in hell!"
....now, his daughter married to a Catholic....and a Puerto Rican one at that!!!
"You have married her to that n***er! You...dirty, low down, yellow dog!"
Three shots rang out, and the unarmed Father James Coyle lay dead.
The Ku Klux Klan sprang into action arranging for a legal 'dream team' for Stephenson."
Ibid.



You'll never guess who the lead lawyer was....and how flimsy his vetting was.
But....he's pretty important in American history, and in the advancement of Democrat policy.

special pleading much? how did that actually change the Constitution?

It altered the first amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Only an amendment can alter our Constitution.

If only.

...those of the opposing view could come up with supreme arguments, not just superior arguments.