NYT: DeLay to Be on Christian Telecast on Courts (Justice Sunday II)

[DeepModem Mom]

DeLay to Be on Christian Telecast on Courts
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: August 3, 2005


WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 - Stepping into the debate over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr., Representative Tom DeLay, the majority leader, has agreed to appear in a telecast called "Justice Sunday II" to rally conservative Christian support for remaking the court.

Mr. DeLay's planned appearance adds the imprimatur of a top Republican elected official to the event, which seeks to call attention to what its organizers say is the Supreme Court's hostility to Christianity and traditional families in its decisions about abortion, homosexuality and government support for religion. It will be broadcast to churches and Christian television stations and distributed as a video....

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The event is part of a broader campaign by prominent Christian conservatives to mobilize churchgoers for Judge Roberts's confirmation and other battles over the courts, battles that many see as the climax of a 30-year culture war. But their efforts may be out of step with the choreography and measured statements of the White House.

In a televised prayer on Tuesday for Judge Roberts's confirmation, for example, the television evangelist Pat Robertson asked his viewers to pray: "Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court." (A "prayer point" on the Web site for Mr. Robertson's "Supreme Court Freedom Project" includes "additional vacancies" as well.)

The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, called the prayer "ghoulish," saying, "The only way people leave the court these days is through death or infirmity."...


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/politics/politicsspecial1/03delay.html

[bluestateguy]

1. OK, but how do we get these people voting Democratic?

These white, fundamentalist Christians?

[merwin]

2. Is it considered a threat against a judge if you ask God for 'additional

vacancies' on the court?

[TahitiNut]

3. "Pat Robertson prays for the death of Supreme Court Justices"

If the press were even slightly liberal, that would be the headline.

[Ian David]

9. Fuck him. Can we have a national day to pray for vacancy at The 700 Club?

[Mari333]

11. Praying should NOT look like one is CONSTIPATED

but thats what Pat looks like..hes full of shit so its no surprise.

[TahitiNut]

12. Playing to the audience, not God.

He's an abominable hypocrite.

[DanCa]

4. Delay in church or Dennis Hasterat in a gym

Which is more vulgar seeing Delay with a bible in his hand, or Hasterat (sp) on a stair master?

[darkism]

5. Why did they hijack the name from a UU event of the same name?

http://www.uusc.org/ia/justice_sunday/2005/index.html

The more I read about the Unitarian Universalists, the more impressed I become. It's a shame the UU's name for an event for a GOOD cause got hijacked by these pukes to try and persecute homosexuals.

[DanCa]

7. That's what the pigs do .

I believe it was an intentional, spiteful slap in the face of the UU for supporting gay marriage.

[Gemini Cat]

6. Why aren't these people in jail?

Delay for corruption (and threats) and Robinson for threats (and corruption).
Didn't Robinson make various threats against the state department and Bader-Ginsberg back in '03?

[boddhi]

8. and Frist wasn't invited this time

because of his support for stem cell research:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201373.html

the nature of the news is changing - Justice Sunday is no longer the important news, Frist not getting invited is - it's so... delicious

[jus_the_facts]

10. Thomas Jefferson must be convulsing in his grave.....

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus
by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

http://www.nobeliefs.com/jefferson.htm