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At this time in American history, there are considered to be two major political parties: Republicans and Democrats. The former has been hostilely taken over by religious extremists. The radical right has made mice of GOP moderates. The moderates silently twitch their noses and watch the country creep toward theocracy. Similarly, religious zealots among the Democrats have divided and conquered. The party has become more ineffective than it ought to be as the minority party in government. Democrats and Republicans fear confronting the radical right because it is well-organized. While publicly preaching high morals, it also has proved capable of...

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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) was not present at Justice Sunday II, a televised gathering of major religious leaders in his home state to promote the Supreme Court nomination of John G. Roberts Jr., but he was on everyone's mind. Just over two weeks ago, the prospective presidential candidate alarmed some leaders of the Christian right when he broke ranks with President Bush to announce support of expanded embryonic stem cell research, a stand viewed in many quarters of the antiabortion movement as permitting the taking of a human life. Some religious leaders who spoke here were prepared to...

NASHVILLE - Thousands of people filled a church Sunday night for "Justice Sunday II," an event organizers said wasn't necessarily about pushing for the confirmation of John Roberts for the U.S. Supreme Court but more about supporting justices who don't have radical agendas. "We've seen a conservative president get re-elected, the conservative Congressional base expand. The (Supreme) Court is part of a cultural problem," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, the organization responsible for "Justice Sunday II: God Save the United States and this Honorable Court!" During this second in a series of demonstrations televised for broadcast...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- America's judicial system is ''unelected, unaccountable and arrogant,'' Focus on the Family founder James Dobson told the thousands of people who packed a Nashville church for ''Justice Sunday II,'' a rally televised for broadcast to churches across the country. The goal of the rally was to educate evangelical Christians about the U.S. Supreme Court and get them talking to friends and elected officials about what they want from their justices, said organizer Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. Many of the speeches targeted the Supreme Court's power and what the writers of the Constitution...

Speakers will include former Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.); Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family; conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly; Bill Donohue of the Catholic League; Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church in College Park, Md., and Chuck Colson, a former aide to President Richard Nixon arrested in the Watergate scandal who later founded the Prison Fellowship Ministries.Nashville — Before "Amen" sounds on "Justice Sunday II" tonight, Jett Williams promises to sing the gospel song her daddy, Hank, left her: "I Saw the Light." Organizers of this meeting of politics and preaching want God-fearing Americans...

Prominent conservatives tell HUMAN EVENTS they are troubled by the revelation that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts worked on behalf of Playboy Entertainment Group--the second time in one week information has come to light that Roberts helped a liberal cause. Last Thursday conservatives were hit with the news that Roberts, while a partner at Hogan & Hartson, did pro bono work for gay-rights advocates in the case Romer v. Evans, which challenged a Colorado voter-approved initiative on sexual orientation. Yesterday, HUMAN EVENTS documented Roberts’ similar involvement in a case involving Playboy and its challenge of the Telecommunications Act of 1996,...

Liberal religious groups challenge 'Justice Sunday' 8 minutes ago Liberal religious leaders on Thursday criticized Sunday's planned rally to back U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts and said its Christian conservative organizers should not drag religion into his confirmation fight. "There is no one religious position on the Roberts nomination, no one religious view on the future of the court or the cases it will hear," Rev. Bill Sinkford, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, told reporters in a conference call. Sinkford and other religious leaders criticized plans for the evangelical rally, which is designed to build support for Roberts'...

Justice (Sunday) for All An alliance of religious public policy advocates, all leaning to the left side of the political spectrum, is calling on Family Research Council and Focus on the Family Action to call off "Justice Sunday II," scheduled for this Sunday, August 14. The leader of one liberal group, the Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy of the Interfaith Alliance, went so far as to call Justice Sunday II "sacrilegious." He and the leaders of two other groups, the Religious Action Center and the Unitarian Universalist Association, plan a series of events in Nashville to protest Justice Sunday II,...

As the debate heated up in April over ending Democrats' use of the filibuster to block votes on judicial nominees, the secular left worked itself into a frenzy when religious leaders organized a multichurch telecast to focus attention on the fact that the president's blocked appellate court nominees all happened to be "people of faith."

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist spoke by video to the first "Justice Sunday" evangelical rally in April, but he wasn't invited to address "Justice Sunday II," even though it's in his home state of Tennessee. Since the first rally, the potential 2008 presidential candidate has angered the events' organizers by stating his support for expanded human embryonic stem cell research. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was invited to speak at the Aug. 14 rally. Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said Tuesday on the group's Web site that Frist's recently announced stem cell stance "reflects an unwise and unnecessary...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist spoke by video to the first "Justice Sunday" evangelical rally in April, but he wasn't invited to address "Justice Sunday II," even though it's in his home state of Tennessee. Since the first rally, the potential 2008 presidential candidate has angered the events' organizers by stating his support for expanded human embryonic stem cell research. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was invited to speak at the Aug. 14 rally. Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said Tuesday on the group's Web site that Frist's recently announced stem cell stance "reflects an unwise...