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[ck4829]

Tell me, why do people believe that Liberals are persecuting them when they filibuster Judicial nominees WHO ARE NOT QUALIFIED to even serve on the bench?

This is crazy. Where did it all begin? What's going on here?

I'm trying not to call anyone stupid, but Ignorance is definitely winning. People need to turn off Fox News and the other players in the 'liberal' media and pick up a book or something.

[radfringe]

1. has nothing to do with persecution

it's all about power and using emotionally charged terms like christianity or values to divide and conquer

GOPers rarely define their terms -- they just sling them about to inflame an emotional response

check out this post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3527923&mesg_id=3527923

[Vinca]

2. This country has gone completely nuts since Shrub was installed.

It's barely recognizable anymore. Blah, blah, blah, Jesus, blah, blah, blah, culture of life . . . now let's screw the poor people.

[JNelson6563]

3. The persecution is a big part of their schtick

Many groups revel in it be it real or imagined.

Julie

[radfringe]

4. read this

. . . Smearing Christian Judges
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10687-2005Apr22.html
By Paul Gaston
Saturday, April 23, 2005; Page A19

People calling themselves Christians are gathering once again for a crusade against what they consider to be the secular humanist subversion of Christian values. This time the object of their wrath is the judiciary. In the wake of the fanatical and fruitless assaults against the judicial system for letting Terri Schiavo die, the Family Research Council will convene tomorrow what it calls "Justice Sunday," a live simulcast to pit Christian values against "our out-of-control courts."

The burgeoning assault on the American judicial system by right-wing Christians is an integral part of their attack on "godless" secular humanism. According to them, secular humanists nurture a culture that promotes abortion; encourages gay marriage; prohibits prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance in permissive schools that indoctrinate students with Darwin's "theory" of evolution; preaches moral relativism; and generally threatens to subvert the Christian foundations of the republic.

What these self-avowed Christians do not acknowledge -- and what the American public seems little aware of -- is that the war they are waging is actually against other people calling themselves Christians. To simplify: Right-wing and fundamentalist Christians are really at war with left-wing and mainstream Christians. It is a battle over both the meaning and practice of Christianity as well as over the definition and destiny of the republic. Secular humanism is a bogeyman, a smoke screen obscuring the right-wing Christians' struggle for supremacy.

[mwb970]

5. What a great article! (n/t)