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I received a phone call from a friend who goes to a conservative Baptist church. She asked one of the assistant pastors to help promote Justice Sunday. The purpose of Justice Sunday is to involve Christians in the political process. The pastor argued that Christians should not be involved in politics or social issues because Jesus and the disciples did not vote, rally support for social issues, or argue for Christian involvement. Christians who view the New Testament as normative for Church life are committing a significant theological error. In the New Testament era, Israel, and by extension the Church,...

PHILADELPHIA — On the eve of Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, conservatives gathered Sunday for a rally in his support in the state where he is an appellate judge. Organizers said the "Justice Sunday III" event was an opportunity to defend religious liberty and educate conservatives about the need to reform the federal courts. Among those expected to attend were Sen. Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvanian who is the No. 3 Senate Republican, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, and the Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. AIDS activists, liberal groups and...

Anti Judge Alito Protest in Philelphia this Sunday!!! Philedelphia Protest Warriors, The Left will be protesting out side a church on Sunday in Philedelphia. The media will be there because its a huge consevrative event for Judge Alito its called " Justice Sunday III ". http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2006/01/18043.shtml http://www.justicesunday.com/ Now and and many other antii Bush groups plan to storm the church!

PHILADELPHIA - Prominent conservatives plan to broadcast from a Baptist church on the eve of the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. The Jan. 8 program, "Justice Sunday III: Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land," follows two previous gatherings designed to rally support for conservative positions on abortion, gay marriage, prayer in public schools and other issues. Christian television and radio stations across the country plan to broadcast the event from the Greater Exodus Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Scheduled speakers include U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R.-Pa., and James Dobson of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family....

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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'...

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."

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...

How dare they? How dare Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist bring his partisan message into the churches? How dare he bring his words into a house of worship as if his words were the words of God? How dare the church leaders allow a government message to be viewed by their congregation, knowing Jesus fought hard to avoid all government and political connections? How dare these church leaders use God’s house for their own person/political gain? They are no better than the false prophets Isaiah spoke of or the Pharisees Jesus spoke to when he said, "You Pharisees clean the...

Democrats a little 'shifty' By J.C. WATTS May 6, 2005 When I visit the sunshine state of Florida, I love to walk the beach and watch the sand shift in the water and wind. Watching Democrat leaders lately, it occurs to me that the bedrock values of these leaders are as shifty as that Florida sand. Remember the 1988 presidential race? Sen. Bob Dole and a Christian broadcaster named Pat Robertson, who was oft criticized for mixing religion and politics, challenged Vice President Bush. Somehow, somewhere, it has been determined that people of faith - specifically conservative people of faith...

Religious Sanction by the Editors Earlier this year, when Bill Frist invoked some grainy video footage and his cardiology training to overturn the prevailing medical consensus about Terri Schiavo's brain, we marveled at the specimen housed within the Senate majority leader's own cranium--a mind at once cynical and craven, and with the capacity for ever-greater feats of cravenness and cynicism in his quest for the GOP's 2008 presidential nomination. Frist has not disappointed. Last Thursday, the venerable Tennessee senator announced that he would participate in an upcoming Family Research Council event called Justice Sunday. The purpose of this wholesome evening...

The Liberals howled at “Justice Sunday.” Way too ‘uppity’ of Senator Frist to speak about a political issue, a majority rules vote on judges, from a Baptist church in Kentucky and simulcast to over 1,000 other churches – when the church isn’t predominately Black! Conservatives condemned Democrat hostility to ‘people of faith’ and not one of their church leaders was a practicing homosexual. That Religious Right is not supposed to speak out in public. Or serve as judges. Or get elected. Or even vote. But millions did in ‘04. Liberals hate that and covet the votes. Liberals just don’t understand...

The Liberals howled at "Justice Sunday." Way too 'uppity' of Senator Frist to speak about a political issue, a majority rules vote on judges, from a Baptist church in Kentucky and simulcast to over 1,000 other churches — when the church isn't predominately Black! Conservatives condemned Democrat hostility to 'people of faith' and not one of their church leaders was a practicing homosexual. That Religious Right is not supposed to speak out in public. Or serve as judges. Or get elected. Or even vote. But millions did in '04. Liberals hate that and covet the votes. Liberals just don't understand...

Anti-Christian hate"Harper's Magazine's May cover stories about 'The Christian Right's War On America' frightened me, although not the way Harper's meant them to," Stanley Kurtz writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com). "I fear these stories could mark the beginning of a systematic campaign of hatred directed at traditional Christians. Whether this is what Harper's intends, I cannot say. But regardless of the intention, the effect seems clear," Mr. Kurtz said. Continues...============================================================== Frist goes to Church, Dems go bananas. Again. Okay, that does it. You know the GOP's in trouble when you read about it even in that right-wing rag --...

Akron, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Supporters of judicial filibusters in the Senate against President Bush's pro-life nominees for federal courts scheduled over 100 local rallies Wednesday to support their cause. However, many were poorly attended. The Coalition for a Fair and Independent Judiciary hopes to stop Senate Republicans from changing the rules on filibusters to make their easier to stop. The sponsored the rallies, like the one in Akron where only 50 people showed up. Similar rallies in Detroit, Pittsburgh, Columbus and other cities were sponsored by the coalition members, which include the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, People for the...

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After the success of a nationwide event, dubbed 'Justice Sunday,' many conservative churches are considering the addition of a 'most holy telecast' from a political action group to the weekly Sunday morning order of worship. "When I saw Sen. Bill Frist on that giant screen talking about Democrat efforts to block conservative judicial nominees, my thoughts were lifted to contemplate the mighty, sovereign God of the universe," said one telecast worshiper in Kentucky. "I think adding a political telecast to our regular worship service would enhance our knowledge of, and devotion to, the living God." Under the proposed new liturgy,...

THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Senate's escalating war over President Bush's judicial nominees has become a fight over the role of religious faith and moral values in the courts. It could determine the outcome of bitterly divisive legal issues such as abortion, pornography and euthanasia. Religious conservatives say liberal opposition to a rule-changing attempt by the Republicans to end the filibuster against Mr. Bush's judicial nominees represents an all-out attack on putting "people of faith" on the federal bench. "We see this as a defensive action in response to a growing antagonism towards nominees who happen to be conservative in their...

God's Politics: Frist Fights Filibuster on Judicial Nominees in "Justice Sunday" AMY: Religious groups and Democrats said Frist should have played no role in the heavily promoted broadcast which they say inappropriately brought religion into a political debate. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York said the move, "Clearly argues that people of one viewpoint have God on their side and all others are faithless." Frists speech comes as a new Washington-Post-ABC News poll finds that Americans are opposed to changing the Senate rules by a 2-1 margin. JIM WALLIS: It was pretty amazing. You know, I have looked through my...

RUSH: All right, yesterday there was a big televised rally between churches. The Family Values Coalition -- I'm not sure the name of the group that did that. I'm having a mental block. I know who they are, don't get upset, but they're trying to focus attention on the fact that the problem with these nominees as far as liberals are concerned is that they're people of faith. They're too religious. They're either Catholic, they're too Christian or what have you. The left won't admit this. So Frist agreed to appear on this program and the Democrats lost their minds....

LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 24 - In a Sunday telecast organized by Christian conservative groups to denounce the Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking judicial nominees, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee stepped up his threats to change Senate rules to circumvent those blockades while simultaneously calling for "more civility in political life." In a short videotaped statement included in the telecast, which was called Justice Sunday and emanated from a packed Baptist mega-church here, Dr. Frist, the Senate majority leader, neither referred to religious faith nor addressed criticism that the event was inappropriately dragging religion into a partisan battle....

Remarks by Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D. Family Research Council Telecast April 24, 2005 Tony, thank you. And good evening to all of you. The judicial nominations debate has created quite a bit of controversy. Emotions are running high on both sides, and it reveals once again, our country's desperate need for more civility in political life. All of us who are active in politics -- whether Republican or Democrat -- need to remember the lesson of Ronald Reagan -- that we can disagree without being disagreeable. Now let me tell you about a disagreement that is going on in...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Believers must exercise their Christian citizenship beyond the ballot box to halt activist judges and secularist senators who are robbing Americans of their religious liberty, R. Albert Mohler Jr. told a nationwide audience April 24 during “Justice Sunday” at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, was one of several speakers at the event, which was designed to mobilize Christians to action against judicial filibusters, which Democrat senators have used to block 10 of President Bush’s appellate court nominees. In most of the cases, senators objected to the nominees' pro-life views. The...

Will "Justice Sunday" turn out to be a political and religious mistake? I think so. The scheduled April 24 rally and national telecast, sponsored by conservative Christian groups, advertises people I respect, including James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, and Chuck Colson, the born-again Watergate figure and founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries. But the decision to hold the event is a woeful tactic based on a false premise. The premise is that Senate Democrats, by threatening to filibuster several of President Bush's judicial choices, have attacked religious believers. "Stop the filibuster against people of faith" is the slogan....

SETBACK FOR REPUBLICANS The judicial filibuster fight in Washington is getting to be quite a spectacle. Moveon.org has pledged $700,000 for television commercials attacking any rule change that would prevent filibusters. One of the ads shows elephants trampling the congress. Now there's an interesting thought: If you allow an up-or-down vote on a judicial nomination that the equivalent of elephants trampling the congress. There's a reason why this filibuster fight is so important to Democrats. For the last fifty years liberals have managed to enact more of their agenda through the courts than through legislative action. Where the left fails...

WASHINGTON - Senator Frist told religious conservatives yesterday to respect the independence of the judiciary, while demanding that senators end Democrats' ability to filibuster and block confirmation of the president's judicial appointees. Judges deserve "respect, not retaliation, no matter how they rule," the Senate Republican leader said in taped remarks to a Christian conference in Louisville, Ky. The event, "Justice Sunday," was simulcast to churches and radio stations across the county.

Critics: Frist Mingling Religion, Politics Sat Apr 23, 2:46 AM ET Politics - AP By HILARY ROXE, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - It may seem like Sen. Bill Frist (news, bio, voting record) has found religion in recent weeks. At least, that's what critics say about the Senate majority leader's recent alignment with social conservative groups on high-profile issues. Their charge is that Frist is playing to religious groups to gather support for political issues — and potentially for a future presidential race. The Tennessee Republican took some heat when Congress stepped into a legal fight over the life of...

The operative paragraph is here: ``When we think judicial decisions are outside mainstream American values, we will say so. But we must also be clear that the balance of power among all three branches requires respect - not retaliation. I won't go along with that,'' Frist said.

The AOL "welcome" page this morning has a picture of Sen. Frist (with a perverted halo effect around his head) and the headline "Buying votes with religion?" You click and get to an article on the pitch to evangelicals to help Frist stop the filibusters.I don't remember AOL casting aspersions on Gore or Kerry for campaigning in black churches. Or on Dem senators for opposing judge nominees because they're conservative Christians. How can one complain to AOL in a way that might make an effect?

The Reverend Katherine Ragsdale on Frist's shameful ploy to use religion to pack the courts This Sunday at 7:00 pm EDT, Senator Bill Frist is partnering with radical conservatives like James Dobson and Tony Perkins to launch "Justice Sunday" - a national telecast to churches across the country which claims that opposing the far-right's "nuclear option" is tantamount to discrimination against "people of faith." NARAL Pro-Choice America asked me - a lifelong Christian and Episcopal priest - what I thought about "Justice Sunday." Frankly, I don't recognize the God Senator Frist and company speak of. The God I know does...

Starts at 7:00 EST The following is a summary from here http://www.frcaction.org/ Welcome to the fight against filibuster abuse! Justice Sunday, scheduled for April 24, 2005, is a unique event designed to remind our U.S. Senators that the opportunity of public service must be fully open to people of faith. Screening potential nominees to the federal bench on the basis of their religious views and moral convictions violates the American sense of fair play.

WASHINGTON - Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday it was not "radical" to ask senators to vote on judicial nominees as he hardened his effort to strip Democrats of their power to stall President Bush's picks for the federal court. Frist, speaking at an event organized by Christian groups trying to rally churchgoers to support an end to judicial filibusters, also said judges deserve "respect, not retaliation," no matter how they rule. A potential candidate for the White House in 2008, the Tennessee Republican made no overt mention of religion in the brief address, according to a text of his...

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will draw a chorus of amens Sunday when thousands of evangelicals across the United States hear his call to put more conservative judges on the federal bench. But even as the Tennessee Republican addresses "Justice Sunday" -- a 90-minute simulcast to conservative churches that enthusiastically backs a Senate rule change to speed nominations -- the leader faces apprehension from another key GOP constituency. The country's leading business lobbying associations, close GOP allies in recent legislative efforts and political campaigns, have told senior Republicans that they will not back the Frist initiative to force votes on...

The Talk Shows Sunday, April 24th, 2005 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill; Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): The Rev. Thomas Bohlin, U.S. vicar of Opus Dei; Joseph Bottum, Editor of First Things; historian Thomas Cahill; the Rev. Joseph Fessio, provost of Ave Maria University; Sister Mary Aquin O'Neill of Mount Saint Agnes Theological Center for Women. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Jon...

A church is hosting a political event Sunday to protest Democratic lawmakers' use of the filibuster to block President Bush's judiciary nominees, a moved that's prompted an outcry from Democrats and some religious leaders. "Justice Sunday" at Highview Baptist Church, organized by the conservative Family Research Council, will feature a videotaped speech by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist rallying churchgoers to protest the filibuster tactic. Other conservatives are scheduled to speak at the church, including R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, and James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family. It is slated to...

ALERT: Sen. John Kerry is upset about the Senate Democrats' filibuster of President Bush's conservative judicial nominees. He's not upset about the fact that the judicial filibuster is unconstitutional. He's not upset about the fact that a minority is blocking a simple "up-or-down," "yes-or-no" vote on these nominees. He's not upset that these liberal Democrats are stopping the United States Senate from fulfilling its constitutional duty to "advise and consent" on judicial nominees. NO... he's upset that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is speaking out AGAINST the filibusters, at a Christian conference on the all-important issue of reining in our...

WASHINGTON, April 21 - As the Senate battle over judicial confirmations became increasingly entwined with religious themes, officials of several major Protestant denominations on Thursday accused the Senate Republican leader, Bill Frist, of violating the principles of his own Presbyterian church and urged him to drop out of a Sunday telecast that depicts Democrats as "against people of faith." Dr. Frist's participation has rekindled a debate over the role of religion in public life that may be complicating his efforts to overcome the Democrats' use of the filibuster, a parliamentary tactic used by Congressional minorities, to block President Bush's judicial...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Christians must make their voices heard in the coming days if Senate Republican leaders are to be successful in breaking the filibustering of judicial nominees, Focus on the Family's James Dobson said April 18. The Senate is expected to vote soon on a controversial rule change that would prevent the filibustering of judges. As of now, a nominee must receive a super-majority of 60 votes to overcome a filibuster -- even if the nominee has the simple majority of 51 votes needed for confirmation. Supporters of the rule change say the filibustering of judges is unconstitutional. The rule...

Sen. Bill Frist's participation in a "Justice Sunday" telecast has offended and/or alarmed a number of Democrats and liberal interest groups. Critics particularly object to the notion that Democrats, by opposing ten of President Bush's conservative judicial nominees, are conducting an assault on "people of faith." On April 24, the Family Research Council hosting a live "simulcast" to churches across the country, hoping to engage conservative "values voters" in the effort to rein in "out-of-control" courts. Frist and a number of conservative religious leaders will address court decisions that have "not only changed our nation's course, but even led to...

Democratic senators accused Senator Bill Frist, the Republican majority leader, of exploiting religion for partisan ends by taking part in a telecast portraying them as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's judicial nominations. "Our debate over the rules of the Senate and the use of the filibuster has nothing to do with whether one is religious or not," Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, said at a news conference with Senator Harry Reid, the minority leader from Nevada. "I cannot imagine that God - with everything he has or she has to worry about - is going...

This is a New York Times story. "As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmation, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as against people of faith for blocking President Bush's nominees. Flyers for the telecast, which have been organized by the Family Research Council and scheduled to originate at a Kentucky Mega Church on the evening of April 24th call the day 'Justice Sunday,' and depict a young man holding a Bible in one hand and a gavel in the...

Right-wing Christian groups and the Republican politicians they bankroll have done much since the last election to impose their particular religious views on all Americans. But nothing comes close to the shameful declaration of religious war by Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, over the selection of judges for federal courts. Senator Frist is to appear on a telecast sponsored by the Family Research Council, which styles itself a religious organization but is really just another Washington lobbying concern. The message is that the Democrats who oppose a tiny handful of President Bush's judicial nominations are conducting an assault "against...

WASHINGTON, April 14 - As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's nominees. Fliers for the telecast, organized by the Family Research Council and scheduled to originate at a Kentucky megachurch the evening of April 24, call the day "Justice Sunday" and depict a young man holding a Bible in one hand and a gavel in the other. The flier does not name participants, but...

Dear Friend: A day of decision is upon us. Whether it was the legalization of abortion, the banning of school prayer, the expulsion of the 10 Commandments from public spaces, or the starvation of Terri Schiavo, decisions by the courts have not only changed our nation's course, but even led to the taking of human lives. As the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left has been repudiated in almost every recent election, the courts have become the last great bastion for liberalism. For years activist courts, aided by liberal interest groups like the ACLU, have been quietly working under the...