Watching out, that is, for threats against their religion, Humanism.
"Just as we did in 2003 and 2004, Americans United is urging senators to stand against the president's efforts to damage fundamental rights in America by moving the federal courts to the extreme right," said Lynn.
They're willing to borrow from Christian monotheism the idea of "right", which assumes the concept justice, a measurability against some absolute standard of right and wrong, but deny the absolute Source of the standard. They expect us to accept this a priori, as somehow less absurd than the obvious notion that rights, justice, morality, even logic have their origin in the only Absolute, an all-knowing Creator.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."
Exactly!
They know that their little game of force-feeding their politics down our throats by way of an activist judiciary is finally being threatened.