This is a repost, sorry to take up the band width (whatever that is
) but I want to ask Timber, Sofia, fishin and/or george to comment on this specific bit of information and it's too far buried in the back pages of this thread, thus the repetition. The following quotation is from the web site of:
TheocracyWatch
a project of the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy at Cornell University
http://www.4religious-right.info/
Quote:The term dominion means control over, in this case control over all the democratic institutions in this country. The Republican Party has been the key vehicle in the drive for control. Now that the Religious Right dominates both houses of Congress and the presidency, they are highly focused on the one remaining branch of government: the courts."Judges are the basis of the land's righteousness," said David Barton, a "Christian nation" activist and vice chair of the Texas state GOP. Barton is dedicated to ending the separation of church and state and was speaking about the 2002 elections. "We have a Senate election here in Texas. The only issue that should matter is judges."
David Barton was speaking at Worldview Weekend in April 2002, an event designed to teach fundamentalists how to gain political influence and bring government under religious control. Another speaker at that event was the House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, but it was Barton's speech that captured the spirit of the 2002 elections: "The only issue that should matter is judges." The following link is an article by Rob Boston of American's United for Separation of Church and State in response to David Barton. Click Here
In his speech Barton was urging the audience to vote for any Republican senator, even moderates. Since Republican leadership is firmly in the hands of the Religious Right, the strategy was to ensure a Republican majority in both houses.
