Cuckoo-Nest Resident Judge Wm Conley

We are still stuck with Hobbesian wack-jobs in the Fed judiciary.

Like William Conley of Madistan.

A federal judge has ordered the state of Wisconsin and its insurers to pay for transgender transition surgery for its employees.

U.S. District Judge William Conley said there's no legal reason to exclude medically necessary care for the employees.

"Medically necessary?"  It's "necessary" because the doctor here needs money to pay his bills.  The underlying thing--tranny surgery--is fighting Mother Nature.

(We're still getting to the part where Conley goes completely cuckoo...)

The state argued that covering the surgery would insert it into the "business of encouraging surgeries meant to conform peoples' appearances to their own perceived sex stereotypes,"...

Whereupon Conley looked into his personal funhouse mirror:

Conley called that position "unhinged from reality."

Uh-huh.

We've often noted that the shove towards positive law will have serious negative consequences.  Conley is simply pushing the ball further.

Good luck with that, cuckoo-doodle.

Meantime, I'll quote from a book review written by Fr. J. Schall, reviewing selected essays of Pp. Benedict.

....Many Christian thinkers, notably Jacques Maritain and John Paul II, have used this phrase “human rights” in a positive sense while, at the same time, they knew what the phrase meant in the tradition of Hobbes. Thus, they had to spend a good deal of time explaining why the “right to abortion” was not a “natural right” or why they were for some “rights” but not others. This Hobbesian form of “rights” dominates the contemporary public order. These “rights” are invented by the arbitrary will of man unrestricted by any outside criterion of right or wrong. The state facilitates the creation and enforcement of these rights in society. “Rights” to abortion, to choose one’s gender, or to same-sex “marriages” come from this source.

For Ratzinger, however, “man’s duty to obey God is a right vis-à-vis the state.” He sees this duty as a limit on the state. In this context, he recalls the tradition of Jacques Maritain. “For him [Maritain], the primary right of a people to govern itself can never become a right to decide everything.” The human mind does not “make” the truth but discovers it. The natural law relates to the truth of things. “The final element of the natural law, which at its deepest level intended to be a law of reason, in the modern era in any case, human rights have remained,” Ratzinger explained....

Crowley is using the Hobbes perversion, of course.  But remember this:  Hobbes was the one who describes human life as 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.'  What we see from Crowley et.al. (such as Kennedy, thankfully now retired) is what MAKES life what Hobbes described.

This is what "our betters" wish for us, eh?