Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Her Life and Legacy from a Christian Standpoint

By now we’ve all heard, seen, or read about the recent death of the Supreme Court Justice—Ruth Bader Ginsburg!

We also know the “bad news” that Mrs. Ginsburg was a very liberal and thus evil Supreme Court Justice. We must recognize that we write from a conservative “evangelical” perspective. Thus, since Ginsburg was a liberal Jewish woman and we utterly oppose her beliefs and lifestyle, we can all see that our comments about Mrs. Ginsburg are negative and not at all positive.

Mrs. Ginsburg was born 87 years ago and was in office from August 10, 1993 and served until September 18, 2020, the time of her recent death. Nominated by the Liberal and perverted President Bill Clinton, and endorsed by liberal presidents ever since, Ginsburg must be opposed and evaluated by the honest conservative Christian on many different fronts.

We read this about Ginsburg on Wikipedia:

[She was] viewed as belonging to the liberal wing of the Court. Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg

Immediately we see that this outspoken member of the Supreme Court can be charged with liberal and sinful views. In the history of the Supreme Court of some 250 years, she was only the second woman to serve in this capacity. We know that a woman is not to be “head” over the man (1 Corinthians 11:3) and she must not “teach” or “exercise authority” over a man” but must remain quiet (1 Timothy 2:11-12). We are led to ask, how was Ginsburg to lead in this important public post if she was not ever to teach over a man or exercise authority over him? How was she to serve in this capacity when she—as a woman—is not be “head” over the man? Perhaps we can see the impossibility of her filling the shoes of a man but as a woman with this position!

Although we have not studied extensively on the life of Ginsburg, we have seen enough to be concerned—even alarmed about her life, her convictions, and her decisions. More than this, we are dismayed as we survey her life and her extensive influence!

According to what we have read, “She eventually became part of the liberal wing of the Court as the Court shifted to the right over time. Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg).

We don’t know what the political persuasion of our readers may be, but, as conservative Christians, we are utterly dismayed with Ginsburg’s views and her numerous political decisions.  Note these comments by a source that is known for their liberal views:

Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. She advocated as a volunteer attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court. Between O’Connor’s retirement in 2006 and appointment of Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents.

Ginsburg received attention in American popular culture for her passionate dissents in numerous cases, widely seen as reflecting paradigmatically liberal views of the law. She was playfully and notably dubbed “The Notorious R.B.G.” by a law student, a reference to the late Brooklyn-born rapper The Notorious B.I.G., and she later embraced the moniker. Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020, at the age of 87, from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg

As Christians (followers of Jesus Christ), we are dismayed with Ginsburg’s views as reflected here. This source freely speaks of her liberal views, her position on women’s “rights,” her “gender equality” positions, her radical feminism, her acceptance and endorsement by the American public, her connection with the ultra-liberal ACLU, and her appointment by the liberal president Carter. The source above refers to “her passionate dissents in numerous cases, widely seen as reflecting praadigmaticlaly liberal views of the law” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg).

We know that these points shows her evil feminist views. Anyway who would be connected with the wicked ACLU, anyone who would promote the liberal agenda of “women’s rights,” anyone who would promote “gender equality,” would be opposed to so much that God has revealed in Scripture.  In other words, she opposed much of what God promoted, and promoted much of what God opposes. Yes, she may have been a Jewish woman, but she stood for so much that was opposed to the Law of Moses or the Law of God!

We have mixed thoughts about her death a few days ago at the age of 87 of pancreatic cancer.  Anyone who contracts a terrible disease such as this draws forth our profound sorrow.  Someone may reply that she knows better now, for we assume that God has made her sinful lifestyle and sinful views known to her. Yes, this may be true, but we also sorrow since we know that it is too late for her to repent and change. We assume that it is true regarding what Jesus said in Luke 16, that she is presently beginning her eternity in “torment” and “agony” (see verses 23, 24, 25, 28). We do not rejoice over this for it must be an utterly horrible thing to die like this. On the other hand, we can rejoice that God chose to take her and remove her from the earth where she did extensive evil to so many millions of people.

Let us return to Ginsburg’s life.  We read this:

Although not devout, the Bader family belonged to East Midwood Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue, where Ruth learned tenets of the Jewish faith and gained familiarity with the Hebrew language. Starting as a camper from the age of four, Ruth attended Camp Che-Na-Wah, a Jewish summer program at Lake Balfour near Minerva, New York, where she was later a camp counselor until the age of eighteen. (Ibid.)

The little that we understand from this is that she was raised in a “Conservative” synagogue (those of you who know about Judaism would recognize this as a moderate group, not really a conservative form which would be the Orthodox branch). She learned some of the Hebrew language by this means.

Her ultra-liberal bent is brought out in the source we have been consulting:

From 1961 to 1963, Ginsburg was a research associate and then an associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure; she learned Swedish to co-author a book with Anders Bruzelius on civil procedure in Sweden.[28] Ginsburg conducted extensive research for her book at Lund University in Sweden.[30] Ginsburg’s time in Sweden also influenced her thinking on gender equality. She was inspired when she observed the changes in Sweden, where women were 20 to 25 percent of all law students; one of the judges whom Ginsburg watched for her research was eight months pregnant and still working.

Her first position as a professor was at Rutgers Law School in 1963. The appointment was not without its drawbacks; Ginsburg was informed she would be paid less than her male colleagues because she had a husband with a well-paid job. At the time Ginsburg entered academia, she was one of fewer than twenty female law professors in the United States. She was a professor of law, mainly civil procedure, at Rutgers from 1963 to 1972, receiving tenure from the school in 1969.

In 1970, she co-founded the Women’s Rights Law Reporter, the first law journal in the U.S. to focus exclusively on women’s rights. From 1972 to 1980, she taught at Columbia Law School, where she became the first tenured woman and co-authored the first law school casebook on sex discrimination.[33] She also spent a year as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 1977 to 1978.

What we can learn from this extensive quotation is that Ginsburg advanced in her academic career. Knowing what Scripture says about the women’s role, what would God think of this?  Again we can see her liberal views come out inasmuch as she cofounded the “Women’s Rights Law Reporter” which was “the first law journal in the U.S. to focus exclusively on women’s rights” (Ibid.). While we are merely noting some of Ginsburg’s worldly or secular accomplishments here, we are actually weeping inwardly when we consider how utterly opposed she must have been to the will and ways of God—her Creator! In other words, as the world rejoices, the Biblical and devoted follower of Jesus weeps over this life that was misspent.

As we continue to read of Ginsburg’s wicked strategy, we note the following:

In 1972, Ginsburg co-founded the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and in 1973, she became the Project’s general counsel. The Women’s Rights Project and related ACLU projects participated in more than 300 gender discrimination cases by 1974. As the director of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, she argued six gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Court between 1973 and 1976, winning five. Rather than asking the Court to end all gender discrimination at once, Ginsburg charted a strategic course, taking aim at specific discriminatory statutes and building on each successive victory. She chose plaintiffs carefully, at times picking male plaintiffs to demonstrate that gender discrimination was harmful to both men and women. The laws Ginsburg targeted included those that on the surface appeared beneficial to women, but in fact reinforced the notion that women needed to be dependent on men. Her strategic advocacy extended to word choice, favoring the use of “gender” instead of “sex”, after her secretary suggested the word “sex” would serve as a distraction to judges. She attained a reputation as a skilled oral advocate, and her work led directly to the end of gender discrimination in many areas of the law.

From this lengthy quotation we again see that Ginsburg was radically opposed to God’s view of sexual differences.  She viewed the role of women as equal to that of men. In theological circles, this is called “egalitarianism” and it is roundly condemned in God’s Word. She did much to change the makeup of gender in America, the view of sexuality, and from there on to the world. We wonder what might have been if she had come to Christ at age 20 instead of pouring her knowledge and energies into tearing down so much that was good and fine in this country! With her knowledge, her energy, and her involvement, she could have served God and her family. Instead, she actively tore down God’s own restrictions and promoted that which was evil.

Notice also Ginsburg’s views on killing babies:

Ginsburg discussed her views on abortion and gender equality in a 2009 New York Times interview, in which she said about abortion “[t]he basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.” Although Ginsburg consistently supported abortion rights and joined in the court’s opinion striking down Nebraska’s partial-birth abortion law in Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914 (2000), on the 40th anniversary of the court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), she criticized the decision in Roe as terminating a nascent democratic movement to liberalize abortion laws which might have built a more durable consensus in support of abortion rights

We can therefore see that not only did this woman promote an evil agenda regarding gender, but she promoted also the killing of babies. We wonder if there would be any further wicked view or position! Since she was a liberal Jewish politician, we wonder what she thought about Hitler’s decision to murder 6 million Jews including many children. But on she went with her liberal agenda that made no sense, spiritually.

As we wonder how this Jewish woman could make so many bad decisions and could tear down so many positive positions, we may get some reasons why by considering this:

Ginsburg was a non-observant Jew. In March 2015, Ginsburg and Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt released an essay titled “The Heroic and Visionary Women of Passover”, an essay highlighting the roles of five key women in the saga: The text states …”These women had a vision leading out of the darkness shrouding their world. They were women of action, prepared to defy authority to make their vision a reality bathed in the light of the day …” In addition, she decorated her chambers with an artist’s rendering of the Hebrew phrase from Deuteronomy, “Zedek, zedek, tirdof,” (“Justice, justice shall you pursue”) as a reminder of her heritage and professional responsibility.

She seemed to give little or no thought about the will of God and this quotation says more. She was a “non-observant Jew,” according to the source. This liberal “Rabbi” says something about his contact with Jewish women of whom Ginsburg was one.

Ginsburg died from complications of pancreatic cancer on September 18, 2020, at age 87. Ginsburg died on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, and according to Rabbi Richard Jacobs, “One of the themes of Rosh Hashanah suggest that very righteous people would die at the very end of the year because they were needed until the very end”.

After the announcement of her death, thousands of people gathered in front of the Supreme Court building to lay flowers, light candles, and leave messages.

We don’t know about you, but we find this very sad indeed. This tenacious woman had some five bouts with her serious physical conditions, including the cancer that finally took her life. The quotation by the so-called Rabbi shows how liberal this religious organization has become. But we also notice that “thousands of people” came to pay tribute to this capable woman who held to so many evil positions and promoted so many wicked views. This may show not only a loyalty of many of the American public, but also it revealed a devotion of many people to a liberal agenda that this woman espoused and promoted.

We have explored this subject sufficiently to show that America continues its downward plunge to more and more evil. But it is not the wickedness of an individual life, but along with this life came thousands of people who participated in Ginsburg’s views and millions who were emboldened by her positions. We must say that many, many people were solidified in their sinful stance by their involvement with this woman that this country and the world endorses and applauds.

We read a comment by the apostle Paul regarding the sin of the Gentiles: “Although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them” (Romans 1:32). Although millions of Americans are oblivious to what Scripture says regarding the many sinful views of Ginsburg, we think that many or most of these do have a regard for what is right and what is wrong through their conscience (cf. Romans 2:12-15). Further, we believe that many of these Americans realize that they are “worthy of death” because of their sins. But not only do these Americans hold to sinful views and participate in sinful activities, they give “hearty approval” to not only Ginsburg but many others who “practice” these sinful views that vast numbers involve themselves in.

We can only cry out to God and ask that He keep this country from others who would hold to the views that Ginsburg promoted. Year by year, it would seem that more and more Americans are being pulled down to a Satanic future. Will God mercifully pull us out of this quagmire, or will He allow the country to continue the way it has gone? Although probably millions of Europeans and others from around the world may endorse what this woman promoted, surely there must be at least some few who would oppose this.

Dear God, please help, please help this country to survive and thrive even yet!

–Richard Hollerman

Major source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg