Friday, March 26, 2004
The Rapid City Journal
March 26, 2004
Real aim
"Activist judges" has joined "patriotism" in the lexicon of Orwellian doublespeak, utterable only by Republicans.
"Judicial activism" is a dangerous buzzword from an already rich "moralist" industry, including Focus on the Family, FRC, CWFA, and AFA, soon to be funneled $2 billion in public funds "sanctifying marriage" (filling their coffers to spread internationally discredited propaganda, creating caricatures of homosexuality, and unnecessary fear for teenagers), benefiting only an elite class of BMW Baptists.
Their real aim by subverting faith in the system is to term limit judges, setting the entire judicial process up for election, the better to influence policy with more than just their barely-legal voter guides.
The Thune co-sponsored "The Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act" (allowing churches to endorse candidates and donate 20 percent of their collection plates), failed. The similarly tainted "Faith Based" power grab has also been stalled.
I'm willing to trade the modern Herod-esque church all the political power it wants, as soon as it starts paying its taxes.
March 26, 2004
Real aim
"Activist judges" has joined "patriotism" in the lexicon of Orwellian doublespeak, utterable only by Republicans.
"Judicial activism" is a dangerous buzzword from an already rich "moralist" industry, including Focus on the Family, FRC, CWFA, and AFA, soon to be funneled $2 billion in public funds "sanctifying marriage" (filling their coffers to spread internationally discredited propaganda, creating caricatures of homosexuality, and unnecessary fear for teenagers), benefiting only an elite class of BMW Baptists.
Their real aim by subverting faith in the system is to term limit judges, setting the entire judicial process up for election, the better to influence policy with more than just their barely-legal voter guides.
The Thune co-sponsored "The Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act" (allowing churches to endorse candidates and donate 20 percent of their collection plates), failed. The similarly tainted "Faith Based" power grab has also been stalled.
I'm willing to trade the modern Herod-esque church all the political power it wants, as soon as it starts paying its taxes.
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