Justice Sunday

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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, which will focus on the threat of judicial activism. All in all, it's a curious protest. All three of the liberal organizations promote an active and detailed public policy agenda. The home page of the Religious Action Center (www.rac.org) discusses the nomination of Judge John Roberts to the Supreme Court and says, "The continuing viability [(no pun intended - ed.] of Roe v. Wade is uppermost in many of our minds."

The participating Unitarians established their own Justice Sunday in 2004, with a focus on human rights in Burma. This can all be called happy hypocrisy. Any church or church body that wishes to focus on clean water or "abortion rights" is acting within its rights to bring what it perceives as spiritual values to the civil debate. It has the right to be right as well as the right to be wrong. The real challenge that Justice Sunday II brings to the liberal organizations is laid out brilliantly in an article that appeared yesterday by commentator Manuel Miranda in The Wall Street Journal Online. Miranda calls our first Justice Sunday an "enormous success." He urged Journal readers to tune in this Sunday at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

http://www.justicesunday.com