A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

That's one of my favorite Emerson quotes, and it applies perfectly to the Post, or at least the Post's conception of itself. Today they call for the Supreme Court to decide the Pledge of Allegiance/Under God case on narrow grounds, ideally that of standing. Otherwise, "the court could rule too broadly and thus unnecessarily lower the barriers between religion and public life."

I don't entirely disagree with this position, but I never saw calls for judicial restraint and narrow decisional bases when the Court decided Lawrence v. Texas on the widest grounds conceivable, indeed wider than were necessary to reach the result.
- posted by Anonymous @ 10:54 AM