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April 25, 2005
Louisville Rally Calls for End to Democrat-Led 'Pattern of Discrimination'
Topics: Political News and commentariesFirst to opine .....
I'd amend the call to action made during the rally somewhat, and target
the call to the Democratic leadership and also Republicans that are
soft on supporting life issues - particularly those that are soft on
pro-life judicial nominees(hint - such as Arlen Specter). After all,
we've already experienced where the road through abortion and
euthanasia has taken us. Any "Action Plan" of BlogsForTerri(now having
gone beyond the single issue of Terri Schiavo to the broader issue of
blogging for life), MUST begin with addressing judicial issues - and
the appointment of pro-life judicial nominees is as good a place as
any, to begin!
This is not to say that our activist role in supporting life and intervening when life is threatened should be circumvented to deal with judicial issues, rather, that judicial issues and active intervention when life is threatened, are in fact juxtapositional in nature. Now ...
- Agape Press
During a nationwide
broadcast over the weekend, evangelical Christian leaders sounded the
call for religious liberty, saying it's time for the U.S. Senate to
stop filibusters against people of faith who have been nominated to the
federal bench.
An estimated 5,000 people filled Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, KY, on Sunday evening for "Justice Sunday: Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith." Event coordinator Family Research Council reports the simulcast also went into 61 million households in 44 states -- numbers that FRC president Tony Perkins describes as "an amazing response."
Why such a response? Perkins thinks it is because "people of faith" are realizing that actions in Washington -- in this case, a Democratic-led filibuster against President Bush's conservative, pro-life judicial nominees -- have a direct impact on their lives.
"It's time to bring some transparency to the process and it is time to give these nominees an up-or-down vote," the FRC president said before the broadcast. "This is not about faith, but a debate and fairness for people of faith, any faith."
Dobson and Colson
The event kicked off with retired Judge Charles Pickering leading the
Pledge of Allegiance. Then a variety of speakers encouraged voters to
contact their senators and ask them to vote to end filibusters on
judicial nominees. Focus on the Family Action founder Dr. James Dobson
said the unconstitutional use of filibusters to prevent Christians from
serving as judges must stop.
"It's not right; it's wrong," Dobson said. "And I think this is one of the most significant issues we've ever faced as a nation, because the future of democracy and ordered liberty actually depends on the outcome of this struggle."
Dobson added that Christians have the right as citizens to seek a change in courts that seem "determined to redesign the culture according to their own biases."
Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship Ministries said the Senate has been holding the judiciary "hostage" through filibusters that have stopped ten of President Bush's judicial nominees. Colson explained that America's founding fathers had good reason to establish a "balance of powers" in the nation's new government.
"[They knew] there had to be three co-equal branches of government -- otherwise, being disposed to sin as we are and believing in the fall [of man], there could be abuses," Colson remarked. "And so three branches of government were set up, all to be independent and to balance one another. [But] what the Senate minority is trying to do [now] is, by a filibuster, to seize what they lost at the ballot box and to prevent the appointment of judges."
Cross posted at BlogsForTerri
Posted by Hyscience at April 25, 2005 7:09 PM
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