[Cincinatus' Wife]

Demonstrators against the 'Justice Sunday' event protest outside Highview Baptist Church, Sunday, April 24, 2005, in Louisville, Ky. At the event inside, organized by Christian groups trying to rally churchgoers to support an end to judicial filibusters, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, speaking via teleconferencing, said 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. (AP Photo/Patti Longmire)

[26lemoncharlie]

We have seen the corruption of our Laws by the activist judges!! What makes the Dems really believe that their lies will be allowed to continue!! Though they may try, their push to socialism will fail again, they have been discovered!! No one believes them -- They are LIARS!!

[kcvl]

It seems it's okay if this guy does the same thing as Sen. Frist.

Jim Wallis is editor and founder of the liberal evangelical magazine Sojourners, the author of The Soul of Politics, and the head of "Call to Renewal," a faith-based anti-poverty organization for social change. He is a speaker, author, activist, and international commentator on ethics and public life.

Wallis speaks at more than 200 events a year and his columns appear in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other major newspapers.

In the last several years, Wallis has led more than 250 town meetings, bringing together pastors, civic and business leaders, and elected officials in the cause of social justice and moral politics.

[Lancey Howard]

"When we think judicial decisions are outside mainstream American values, we will say so," he said. "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."

This guy Frist scares me sometimes.
Judical activism does not call for "retaliation" - - it calls for impeachment.

Does he "go along with that"?

[AmericanChef]

-Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee stepped up his threats...while simultaneously calling for "more civility in political life."-

THIS IS AN EFFORT???? This is pathetic.

[Lord Basil]

"I don't think it's radical to ask senators to vote," Dr. Frist said. "Now if Senator Reid continues to obstruct the process, we will consider what opponents call the 'nuclear option.'..."

To quote Mrs. Bickerson: "You say it, but you won't do it. Do it now!"

[OESY]

“[Left-Wing] Church Groups Criticizing Frist”, 4/22/05


A week after a headline noted “Frist Accused of Exploiting Religion Issue,” David Kirkpatrick and Sheryl Gay Stolberg make the front page Friday with another story forwarding attacks on the Senate Republican leader: “Church Groups Criticizing Frist -- Religion Is Growing Factor in Court Nominee Fight.”

At first glance, one might think some conservative church groups have qualms about Frist’s participation in a Sunday telecast that will allegedly depict Democrats as “against people of faith.” Yet the only church groups cited in the story are ones hailing from the left side of the political spectrum – something Kirkpatrick and Stolberg fail to emphasize.

The story begins: “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.’”

They explain: “Religious groups, including the National Council of Churches and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, plan to conduct a conference call with journalists on Friday to criticize Senator Frist's participation in the telecast. The program is sponsored by Christian conservative organizations that want to build support for Dr. Frist's filibuster proposal.”

Note that while the program is being sponsored by “Christian conservative organizations,” the National Council of Churches is described simply as a benign, apparently nonideological “religious group.” But the NCC is a far-left organization, as demonstrated by its support of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (no fan of religious freedom) and on various political issues like the environment.

Kirkpatrick and Stolberg at least identify another anti-Frist group as liberal: “Now the liberal group People for the American Way is buying advertisements and distributing church program inserts that attack Senator Frist for invoking religious faith in what it says is a partisan context. The National Council of Churches is asking members to organize news conferences denouncing Dr. Frist. The criticism of the telecast underscores the delicate task facing Dr. Frist, who is laying the groundwork for a possible presidential campaign in 2008, as he courts the evangelical Protestant groups and other religious traditionalists that formed the bedrock of President Bush's winning coalition. With his patrician bearing and background in the relatively liberal Presbyterian Church, Dr. Frist, a Harvard-trained transplant surgeon, does not fit in as naturally with Christian conservatives as President Bush.”

There’s also a rare use of the term “ire” to refer to liberals which refers obliquely to the National Council of Churches: “Dr. Frist's overtures to Christian conservatives have drawn the ire of the more liberal hierarchies of other religious groups, including the officials of his own denomination. Dr. Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches and a former Democratic congressman, said he had sought to include Mr. Kirkpatrick, of the Presbyterian Church, in the conference call both because Dr. Frist is Presbyterian and because of the church's emphasis on ecumenicalism.”

-- TimesWatch.org, 4/22/05