Just five short days after President Bill Clinton's nomination, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg had been confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as Justice
to the U.S. Supreme Court. That was during the Dog Days of August 1993.
Obviously, the Clinton Administration wanted to fast-track the process
so no one would have time to ask any embarrassing questions.
Because of her low-key manner, people believed Ginsburg was a moderate.
But if the Senate had bothered to look into Ginsburg's background, they
would have been troubled, indeed.
Ruth Ginsburg received her law degree from Columbia Law School. In 1971
she established the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil
Liberties Union. Throughout the 1970s Ginsburg acquired a first-hand
knowledge of the workings of the Supreme Court as she argued six cases -
all feminist issues - to the Justices.
Ruth Ginsburg made the same assumption as the rest of the feminist
movement. She accepted without question the Marxist claim that women's
role as mothers and wives is
inherently
oppressive. And
she believed that equality of opportunity should always translate into
identical social roles.
In 1977, Ginsburg wrote a report for the Commission on Civil Rights
titled "Sex Bias in
the U.S. Code". This report
demanded 800 changes to federal laws in order to eliminate any and all
distinctions between men and women.
For starters, the report claims that the Boy Scouts perpetuate
stereotyped sex roles, so they must be gender-integrated or abolished.
You can't help but wonder if the current Leftist hostility to the Boy
Scouts stems from this recommendation.
Then we are instructed to clean up our speech: "manmade" must be changed
to "artificial," "midshipman" to "midshipperson," and so forth. Why the
report fails to object to such obviously sexist terms as "mother
tongue," "Mother Nature," "ladybug," and "sister city," I can't possibly
guess.
But page 206 of this report is where it all comes out. There we learn of
Ginsburg's grand vision to reshuffle the deck of the traditional family.
She proposes to do away with the husband-as-primary-breadwinner concept:
"Congress and the President should direct their attention to the concept
that pervades the Code: that the adult world is (and should be) divided
into two classes--independent men, whose primary responsibility is to
win bread for a family, and dependent women, whose primary
responsibility is to care for children and household. This concept must
be eliminated from the Code if it is to reflect the equality principle."
But we're still not done. On page 214 Ginsburg urges us to adopt
Communist-style day care services: "The increasingly common two-earner
family pattern should impel development of a comprehensive program of
government-supported child care."
Radicals often moderate their stance as they get older and wiser. But
not Ruth Ginsburg.
On January 29, Justice Bader appeared at a lecture sponsored by the
National Organization for Women Legal Defense
Fund.
Over the years the NOW Legal Defense Fund has used the cover of gender
equality to promote their agenda of destabilizing the family and
promoting
Marxist ideals.
Justice Ginsburg not only appeared at the meeting, she introduced the
speaker for the 4th Annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture
Series on Women and the Law.
In that appearance, Ginsburg showed that she remains ever-faithful to
the Sisterhood. Plus, she fostered the perception that she lacks
judicial impartiality and objectivity. As Hofstra University law
professor Monroe Freedman remarked, "I think this crosses the line."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's writings reveal the true intentions of radical
feminism: achieve a gender-less society and impose totalitarian ideals
on American society. And her recent appearance at a NOW conference
reveals she still hews to the fem-socialist line.
Justice Ginsburg is now 70 years old, and may step down from the bench
in a few years. But for now, radical feminists can rest assured that
they have a friend in very high places.
