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"Girls, get your burqas ready. If conservatives succeed in controlling the judiciary, then we really will be on our way to becoming a Taliban Christian nation."

As someone that attempts to read many views on any subject I'm sure that I've read stupider statements than the one above in the last ten years, I just can't recall one.

Boortz, as a libertarian, has an unfounded and ridiculus fear of Christians and should never be confused w/ a conservative. Those posters on this board who likewise think that Christians will somehow undermine conservatism fail to appreciate that no conservative movement in this country would be possible w/o Christians.

In short, w/o Christians the GOP would be as irrelevant and inconsequential as liberatrians. This no doubt goes a long way towards explaining their otherwise irrational fear of our traditional heritage.

It wasn't Boortz that made that statement. Nor was he agreeing with it.

Your bias is showing.

Here's where the rub lies. There are micro and macro things that religious leaders want codified into law. Things like pro life are the macro. But once they begin to feel their oats, then the Christian right will focus on issues such as salvation, grace and many other micro issues that if one side or the other wins out then we're in trouble, because they will all claim those laws are part of natural law empowered by the Creator.

So do you want emersion or sprinking codified? In the name of Jesus or the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Should the wafer really be considered the body of Christ or just symbolic? What if the Catholic view of Mary were codified and where does that leave Fundamentalists. IT will come to that point ladies and gentlemen. Be careful how much power you give these guys.

Many Americans will view Frist's address to churches over the weekend as a sure signal that his fight against the filibuster is really nothing more than a fight to give conservative Christians control over the nation's judiciary.

As a conservative Christian, it sure disgusted me.

Boortz, as a libertarian, has an unfounded and ridiculus fear of Christians and should never be confused w/ a conservative. Those posters on this board who likewise think that Christians will somehow undermine conservatism fail to appreciate that no conservative movement in this country would be possible w/o Christians.

No, Christians will not undermine conservatism. The liberals that have joined the party in the past 20 years have already done that along with the misguided marching hordes down in Florida a little over a month ago. I would just like to thank both groups for completely destroying the conservative movement within the GOP. Perhaps now conservatives will wake up and realize neither party has offered much of anything in the past 100 years

In short, w/o Christians the GOP would be as irrelevant and inconsequential as liberatrians. This no doubt goes a long way towards explaining their otherwise irrational fear of our traditional heritage.

As a conservative/libertarian I'm not afraid of our traditional heritage nor shy away from it. Rather I embrace it. But I think many 'conservatives' have a deluded ideal of what our traditional heritage is. It's not one that included calling on Washington DC for an answer to every problem. Once we start to pay these men in Washington the respect and time they deserve, which is none, perhaps we will start to see some returns to the traditional heritage that Republicans claim they desire so much