Judge
Leslie Southwick was nominated by the President to sit on the 5th Circuit
Court of Appeals, but liberal groups have tried to slander his character by blatantly
distorting two past judicial decisions which he joined, out of the thousands he
has participated in. The Washington Post’s
recent editorial counters
the baseless liberal accusations and highlights his sterling qualifications.
An older Wall
Street Journal article and this
National Review article also refute the slanderous accusations against
Judge Southwick.
Southwick was recently voted out of committee, but the liberal attack email
below should provide evidence enough that radical organizations will continue
to seek to obstruct Judge Southwick’s nomination and likely the confirmations
of further judicial nominees. Your
senators need to hear the truth about Judge Southwick and of the need to
appoint more qualified, originalist judges to the federal bench.
Below is
the text from an email that AdvanceUSA has obtained which was sent by the Human
Rights Campaign (HRC), a radically liberal “gay rights” organization.
Should this man be appointed to the
Federal bench?
Dear C.,
In Mississippi a few years ago, the courts took
away a woman's 8-year old child. Why? In
part because the child's mother was a lesbian.
Two of the judges in the majority went so far as to write and sign an additional
opinion, unnecessary to the case's outcome, which stated hat the other must
accept the fact that losing her biological child was a possible consequence of
her sexual "choice."
One of those two judges was Leslie
Southwick. And today, Southwick is dangerously close to being appointed to the
Federal bench by President Bush.
Only the Senate stands in the way
of his confirmation - will you take action with me?
Make sure your Senators return from
their August break with a full inbox saying NO on Southwick's nomination! America's highest courts are meant to be
protectors of justice, not prejudice.
Yet Southwick's record as a Mississippi judge raises
serious doubts about his ability to apply the law fairly to all Americans. In this
case alone, Southwick: Went so far as to cite Mississippi's irrelevant and outdated sodomy
laws, which have since been invalidated. Focused on "the practice of
homosexuality" - refusing to even mention gay individuals as human beings.
Cited Mississippi's
law prohibiting same-sex couples from adopting children - even though this was
not an adoption case!
The American Psychiatric
Association has long held that sexual orientation is not a "choice,"
and that lesbian and gay parents are just as successful as their heterosexual
counterparts. Yet Judge Southwick
disregarded widely accepted science in favor of his personal bias. This man
MUST NOT be given the responsibility to protect the basic rights of gay and
lesbian Americans.
Help protect GLBT civil rights by
writing your Senators today.
If approved to the Court of
Appeals, Southwick's appointment would be for life. That's why I'm asking you
to take action today - and when you're done, please forward this message on to
everyone you know. Thank you.
Warmly,
Joe
Solmonese