At the now infamous 'Justice Sunday' [sic] sponsored by right wing religious groups, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said, "Emotions are running high on both sides, and it reveals once again our country's desperate need for more civility in political life."
Ironic since Frist's comments were at an event whose subtitle was the loaded 'Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith.'
As noble as Sen. Frist's words may have been, few others at the event seemed to be paying attention.
Charles W. Colson, head of Prison Fellowship Ministries, said that Democrats' actions in blocking a handful of the most extreme judicial nominations (versus the nearly 200 Bush judicial nominees approved) "are destroying the balance of power, which was a vital Christian contribution to the founding of our nation."
James Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family, said that the Supreme Court's majority "was unelected and unaccountable and arrogant and imperious and determined to redesign the culture according to their own biases and values, and they're out of control" and that most of the justice do not care "about the sanctity of life." He referred to Democrats' blocking of a less than a dozen judges as "judicial tyranny to people of faith."
Is this the moderation Frist was talking about?
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