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The GOP Is Robbing Us Of Our Christian Heritage

The NY Times reports:

As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's nominees.

Family Research Counsel President Tony Perkins recently wrote the following:

As the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left has been repudiated in almost every recent election, the courts have become the last great bastion for liberalism. For years activist courts, aided by liberal interest groups like the A.C.L.U., have been quietly working under the veil of the judiciary, like thieves in the night, to rob us of our Christian heritage and our religious freedoms."

If we assume that Perkins is right about that, who is to blame for robbing us of our Christian heritage and religious freedom?

Consider the fact that Democrats have blocked only 10 of President Bush’s 229 judicial nominees. If Democrats are blocking all nominees of faith, should Perkins blame the Democrats for blocking the ten, or should he blame President Bush for nominating 219 judges (more than 95% for the total) who are not “people of faith?”

If the Federal Courts are the “last great bastion for liberalism,” whose fault is that?

I previously noted the following:

Of the nine current members of the Supreme Court, seven were appointed by Republicans. In the last thirty-five years (since 1969) there have been thirteen appointments to the Supreme Court. Republican Presidents have made eleven of those appointments while Democratic Presidents have made two.

At the Circuit Court of Appeals level, the pattern remains the same. Since 1969, Republican Presidents have appointed 211 Judges to the Circuit Courts. Democrats have appointed 122. Since 1969, Republican Presidents have appointed 813 trial Judges to the District Court bench while Democrats have made 508 such appointments.

If the Federal Judiciary is comprised of a bunch of liberal activists, it is the GOP who put them there.

Either Mr. Perkins is targeting the wrong party or he does not really believe his own rhetoric.

Posted by Dwight Meredith at April 17, 2005 02:14 PM | TrackBack