*486 or so days on...
With President Donald J Trump's latest nominee to the U S Supreme Court just now being confirmed in office, the fears of many Americans as to what the future holds will have just gone up exponentially...
And whether one approves of this development or otherwise, it cannot be doubted that its potential impact upon three critical areas of American life is front and centre in the minds and hearts of many...
Such concerns as the future of legalized abortion in the USA, the future of Obamacare, and indeed even potentially whether - in a disputed ballot come **November 3rd (Northern Hemisphere time) - Trump himself gets to see out a second term...
And though Trump himself is no longer necessary for (the achievement/realization of) what is ***in all likelihood the one and only reason a large swathe of evangelical Americans, whilst holding their noses, voted for Trump in the first place...
now, in sheer gratitude for his ****delivering what *****previous Republican presidents have only promised, a large number of such American Christians will doubtless now express their thankfulness by ticking Trump's 'box' on the ballot this time around as well...
*Since I last posted herein, that is.
**November 4th Southern Hemisphere time (i.e. the very day 38-some years ago I gave my life to Christ.)
***As many have commented, and as Yours Truly has long since intuited.
****/*****As the likes of former Focus on the Family radio host and bestselling author (among many other notable 'things') Dr James Dobson has himself noted; many such Christians being frustrated (to use a rather extreme euphemism or understatement!) with the actual (legislative) delivery of the long-promised 'constitutional amendment' on abortion regularly assented to and pledged by former presidents Ronald Reagan and George W Bush in particular...
...but never ever actually gotten around to (when push came to actual shove)...
But what exactly is it, you rightly ask me, that President Trump has thus delivered? For as Barrett herself has made abundantly clear over recent days, onlookers have no reason or justification for simply assuming that she will in future cases decide against 'Roe Vs Wade' and in favour of a pro-life stance.
No indeed, and many previous conservative Supreme Court appointees (over recent decades) have proven that very thing; i.e. that one cannot necessarily or reliably anticipate that a particular appointee's long-held views and beliefs upon abortion or any number of other hot-button issues will (pre-)determine her or his subsequent rulings and/or determinations on the Bench...
True enough, but it's surely a sheer leap (of logic) to suppose that such beliefs, nay, even convictions in this case, will have no bearing upon Ms Barrett, or play no part in steering her in a particular direction, or why else would she have been so eagerly promoted and stridently acclaimed by evangelicals throughout the length and breadth of America?
Why indeed? However no-one can read her mind - even if and when such cases are forwarded for her and her fellow jurors' due consideration; and even then, talk of revoking Roe Vs Wade is apparently quite premature, as, from what this particular pleb and longstanding observer of the American political scene at least can make out, the most that might happen vis-a-vis championing of the pro-life approach to abortion in the USA is that it might be deemed no longer a federal matter/issue and shunted back to the 50 individual states to rule thereupon...
...as so many (such as commentators upon CNN"s 700 Club) have regularly maintained...
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