California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown draws Democrats’ ire. (Ben Margot / AP)
Posted on 04/26/2005 3:19:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON — Just days after a bitterly divided Senate committee voted along party lines to approve her nomination as a federal appellate court judge, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown told an audience Sunday that people of faith were embroiled in a "war" against secular humanists who threatened to divorce America from its religious roots, according to a newspaper account of the speech.
Brown's remarks come as a partisan battle over judges has evolved into a national debate over the proper mix of God and government and as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) ponders changing the chamber's rules to prevent Democrats from using procedural moves to block confirmation of conservative jurists such as Brown.
Her comments to a gathering of Roman Catholic legal professionals in Darien, Conn., came on the same day as "Justice Sunday: Stop the Filibuster Against People of Faith," a program produced by evangelical leaders and simulcast on the Internet and in homes and churches around the country. It was designed to paint opponents of Bush's judicial nominees as intolerant of believers.
Though unrelated to that program, Brown's remarks sounded similar themes.
"There seems to have been no time since the Civil War that this country was so bitterly divided. It's not a shooting war, but it is a war," she said, according to a report published Monday in the Stamford Advocate.
"These are perilous times for people of faith," she said, "not in the sense that we are going to lose our lives, but in the sense that it will cost you something if you are a person of faith who stands up for what you believe in and say those things out loud."
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"There seems to have been no time since the Civil War that this country was so bitterly divided. It's not a shooting war, but it is a war,"
I'm glad some public figure has finally gotten the nerve to say this.
This is a judge who is superior in wisdom to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Kennedy, Souter, and then entire 9th Circus Court.
Brown's remarks drew praise Monday from one of the nation's most prominent evangelical leaders, Gary Bauer, president of the socially conservative advocacy group American Values. "No wonder the radical left opposes her," Bauer wrote in an e-mail to supporters. "Janice Rogers Brown understands the great culture war raging in America. That is why the abortion crowd, the homosexual rights movement and the radical secularists are all demanding that Senate liberals block her confirmation."
Our nation is at a crossroads. I pray the Senate and the GOP don't fold like a sheet in the wind.
Democrats May Compromise on Judicial Fight***.........Democrats used filibusters during Bush's first term to block 10 of his nominees to the federal bench. Bush has resubmitted seven of the nominees, sparking the dispute over the filibuster — a tactic in which debate is used to block a vote. It takes 60 votes to end a filibuster; the Republicans hold 55 seats in the Senate. Under the rule change the GOP is considering, Bush's nominees would need 51 votes to win confirmation.
As the rhetoric rises on both sides, Republicans have sought to focus public attention on what they consider Democrats' inappropriate use of the filibuster.
In a speech Monday in New York, Frist said that for 70% of the 20th century, the same party controlled the White House and the Senate.
But he said that during those periods, "no minority [party] ever denied a judicial nominee … an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor" when it was clear the nominee enjoyed majority support.
Democrats counter that Republicans used different tactics to stall some of Clinton's judicial nominees. They also argue that eliminating the filibuster would violate the constitutional checks and balances among the three branches of government.
And they object to assertions by Christian activists that the filibusters are aimed at judges with strong religious views.
"We believe it's a constitutional issue," Durbin said. "It's not a matter of filibustering people of faith. It's a matter of having faith in the Constitution." ***
Bump!
Tom DeLay's faith, conservatism and effectiveness are the reasons LIBERALS are trying to take him out too.
True, except it is a war on two fronts. One front is faith, the other is values. We have secular allies who share our values although not our faith. On the other side there is precious little of either.
If the GOP would ACT, the level of discord and msm coverage would not go on day after day, month after month. They need to do the work they were voted in as majority to do!
It's silence that allows your opposition to define you.
Perhaps her character and honestly will help the majority in D.C. take off their blinders.
Think of the irony of it all, though. A black woman, who has risen to a pretty high level, also being a conservative...a black FEMALE conservative, at that! No wonder the dems hate her so much. The idea might catch on that blacks don't have to be subservient to the dems, that they might possibly be smart enough to hold a job, and possibly even a good one if they tried hard enough...and also, that they might disagree philosophically with them on secular and religious ideas. They want to ban anyone who even appears to go against the 'norms' they have created and banter around!
You're right - that statement goes beyond profound, straight into the realm of wisdom. And, let's face it, there is only One who dispenses this kind of wisdom to those who ask.
Continue to pray for this Godly woman, that she may be protected from the fiery darts of the wicked one.
Expect the personal attacks against her to be vicious. Just like Bill Cosby was viciously attacked for having the nerve to say what he did.
Oh, I like this woman.
I do, too!
Thank you. My wife and I were just talking about that passage in Ephesians this morning.
Go Janice!
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