Conason: "Frist and His Allies Use Piety for Profit"

[flpoljunkie]

Amen!

http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp

These corporate servants in black robes were all too typical of the nominees sent up by the White House. It’s hard to understand how rejecting them offended any religious faith. And when Mr. Perkins implies that Democrats apply a religious test to the Bush nominees, he is lying about that, too.

<>Addressing a National Right to Life convention in 2002, the year before he was elevated to the bench, Mr. Fisher said, "All of us are hoping and praying that the day will come under the leadership of George W. Bush that we’ll have a Supreme Court with justices who will leave to the state to decide the legality of this issue by overturning Roe v. Wade."

Although there were certainly reasons to object to those three nominees, including their ideologically rigid views on reproductive choice, none of them was stopped by filibuster. That option has been reserved for the least qualified and most extreme of the President’s nominees.

Mr. Perkins, Mr. Dobson and Mr. Frist are exploiting religion to advance an agenda that has nothing to do with Christianity and everything to do with the Chamber of Commerce. Their mouths prattle incessantly about the Holy Spirit, yet their eyes are fixed on the golden calf.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Joe rocks. How right he is.

NGU.

[spooky3]

2. an excellent example of "blind faith"

[ClassWarrior]

3. Here's another...

The Terri Schiavo saga has prompted yet another round of fears that the Republican Party has been hijacked by religious conservatives. The truth, however, is just the opposite: Religious conservatives have been hijacked by the Republican Party.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-chait1apr01.story

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

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[FreedomAngel82]

6. So true

I wrote to Frist (he's my Senator) and told him how I was ashamed and how he needs to stop using my religion for his greedy self. That's when he wrote me back.

[flpoljunkie]

7. And what did Senator "cat killer" Frist have to say?

[ClassWarrior]

8. Yeah, what did he say??

NGU.

[Mondon]

9. You don't say

[ClassWarrior]

10. Welcome to DU.

Next time share some thoughts.

NGU.