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[above: click on image for YouTube video trailer]"Renewal or Ruin": New Video Documentary By Steve D. Martin Spotlights Secretive Rightwing Effort To Destroy Mainstream Protestant Churches
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: by Michelle Goldberg
With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House.
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Tanya Erzen
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The Shaming Projectdoes the violence of "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" bother you ? If so, what can you do ? Well, to begin with you can email Jonathan Hutson's stories to people you know. That will help to bring more public scrutiny of the game. Public shaming really works ! Just click on the "email" icon and link at the top or bottom of the story and you'll be taken to a form that will allow you email the first story, The Purpose Driven Life Takers or the latest installment without leaving this site. Thanks.
Courting Disaster: Honaker Nomination An Insult To The Constitution |
| Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 10:24:36 AM EST |  print story | |
 
That includes the federal judiciary. Bush has nominated Richard Honaker, a former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, to a federal judgeship. It's an alarming move, considering Honaker's extreme views. |
| topic: Church/State Separation |
Nominees to the lower federal courts tend to receive less scrutiny from the media and the public - and it's here Bush has tried to stack the bench with some real doozies.
Consider Honaker. He believes abortion is murder and that biblical law should trump the secular law. He said in one speech, "I came to know that if the Bible is true, if Christianity is true, then it is true in family life. It is true in economics. It is true in law, and it is true in all facets of human endeavor. I know that with only such a world view can Christians have any impact upon the culture around them."
Speaking before convention of homeschoolers in Wyoming in 2005, Honaker said, "[I]f taught accurately, history can teach us that the greatest American patriots and leaders were Christians, and that there is indeed a Christian basis for American institutions of law, government, and business." In the same address, he attacked the Supreme Court because it "no longer talks about America as a Christian nation or about the Christian underpinnings of the law."
Questioned about these rather unusual views, Honaker replied that no one should worry. A higher court could always step in and overrule him. "The losing party [could] appeal to the Tenth Circuit, and perhaps on to the United States Supreme Court, and nobody would remember what the trial judge did anyhow," he said.
Honaker's nomination has been pending for about a year. It has not improved with age. A nomination like this is little more than an insult to the Constitution. It's the sort of the thing the Senate should not even bother to take seriously. The Senate Judiciary Committee should reject Honaker's nomination and insist that Bush name someone to the post who understands and respects the need for religious diversity in America.
There is simply no reason to allow Bush, a man with a 30 percent approval rating whose policies have proven to be not just misguided but disastrous, to continue to stack our courts with religious extremists.
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