From Congress Daily:
Christian conservatives and a core group of congressional supporters are launching a significant new push to restructure the federal judicial system to reflect a more explicitly biblical world view, in the hopes that these changes will pave the way for broader social and political changes, leaders of the movement said.
Some of the most prominent conservative leaders in the country -- including Vision America's Rick Scarborough, Coral Ridge Ministry's James Kennedy and the Free Congress Foundation's Paul Weyrich -- launched the effort Thursday in Washington.
Members of the new coalition said they would immediately focus on bringing an end to Democratic filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees before pushing Senate Majority Leader Frist to enact sweeping changes in the judiciary.
They also warned that Frist and other politicians who have thus far been reluctant to force a confrontation with Senate Minority Leader Reid over the nominations would be held accountable if Democrats continue to block conservative judges.
Participants at this week's Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration meeting said the group also will focus on forcing Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against any judge who does not conform with their biblically based interpretation of the Constitution, as well as permanently curb judicial authority over matters of church and state, marriage and governmental acknowledgement of a Christian deity.
"What it is time to do is impeach justices," Texas Justice Foundation President Allan Parker extolled a crowd of a hundred or so conservative lobbyists, attorneys and activists. "The standard should be any judge who believes in the 'living constitution' should be impeached."
It's starting. This is where it becomes important that we all realize the importance of protecting our government from those who wish to turn her into a theocracy.
If this scenario plays out like these people wish, then you can simply replace the word christian for muslim, and you will have a perfect picture of what led to the fall of the Shah of Iran.
It is up to all of us to protect our country from religious extremism. The stated goals of the people mentioned above are not about policy differences. This is about fundamentally altering the very foundation of what we are as a nation.
The moderates in the Republican Party need to join with the Democrats in condemning such rhetoric and blocking any attempt to make such changes.
It's time for the real patriots to make a stand. If you love your country, and believe it or not that is not mutually exclusive to loving your God, then it's time to start calling your legislators. It's time to start writing letters to the editor. It is time to make it clear to those with the power to make change that this is simply unacceptable.
We need moderation now, or this will be among the most trying times we have encountered in the history of our great nation.
May God have mercy on all us now.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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