I do not see the logic in you feeling the need to leave Fr OR the Republican Party---I have noticed that Fr has become an almost total "Save Terri" website the last few days, and the Republicans in Congress, and President Bush have really pushed for any solution---it is the dems that are fighting it, if you want to blame this on a particular "party"--But
The activist judges like Greer have been elected into office by the people of Florida and elsewhere--the appointed ones have probably ALL been put in place under the Clinton administration---
I really do not get where you are coming from--Free Republic is a SOLUTION not the problem--
But if all the FR posts (no matter how many they be) and all the efforts of the GWB, "Most Powerful Man in the World", a Congressional majority, and the Republican Judical appointees cannot save one innocent woman from execution then what good is it.
Sometime you must leap beyond logic and trust in God (not that God is illogical, but rarely does man comprehend, through logic, Gods will). Save this Woman! It is more than just her life at stake here. This is the War that gets the least media attention, the war that has raged since the beginning of creation, that between good and evil, life and death, those that follow God or those that follow Satan.
It appears to me that both Governor and President Bush are only pushing for solutions within the confines of a broken judicial system. Among other things this has become a separation of powers issue. What we have here is one branch of government (the judiciary) behaving lawlessly and invading the constitutional prerogatives of the other branches who in turn refuse to defend those prerogatives. This is something the Founding Fathers never anticipated; they assumed that each branch of government would jealously "defend its turf." Republicans are culpable because they control the executive and legislative branches, have the remedies in hand to rein in the rogue branch, yet refuse to do so. This is so simple - Article III gives Congress the authority to remove legislation from judicial scrutiny. Given rampant judicial abuse, why isn't this power used routinely?
As I alluded earlier with my Andrew Jackson reference, in the Schiavo case, executive recourse to force now seems necessary to defend Terri's civil rights and "ensure that the laws are faithfully executed." Yet all we are likely to see are handwringing and platitudes to the effect that "it's in the hands of the court." Were it in my power to do so, I'd have arrested that fool judge a long time ago.
In short, why remain in a party that has demonstrated it will roll over and play dead rather than defend the Constitution - and the country - from judicial usurpation?