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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 12:47 AM
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Santorum Rails Against Alito Opposition (Justice Sunday III)
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Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the No. 3 Senate Republican, told the gathering that liberal judges are "destroying traditional morality, creating a new moral code and prohibiting any dissent."

"The only way to restore this republic our founders envisioned is to elevate honorable jurists like Samuel Alito," Santorum said. "Unfortunately, the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee seem poised to drag these hearings into the gutter, so they can continue their far left judicial activism on the Supreme Court."
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The Rev. Jerry Falwell and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson encouraged the more than 500 people at the two-hour event and those watching the 1 1/2-hour broadcast at home on Christian broadcast stations to encourage their senators to support Alito.
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The pastor at the home of "Justice Sunday III," the Rev. Herbert Lusk, drew the ire of separation-of-church-and-state activists when he endorsed President Bush from the pulpit during the 2000 Republican National Convention. The church's charitable arm was awarded nearly $1 million in federal money in 2002 to help low-income Philadelphians with mortgages, and Bush spoke at the church in 2004.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/08/AR2006010800463.html
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DianeG5385 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 12:48 AM
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1. Can someone please tell him he's irrelevant
And annoying and ignorant and a tax cheat to boot?
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clarknyc Donating Member (393 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 12:51 AM
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2. Can I say this?
Fuck him. Just fuck him.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 12:56 AM
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3. Sontorum is done; he's not a viable person to listen to, thankfully. nt
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 12:56 AM
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4. These guys really scare me ..
Dobson, Falwell and the like. And the idea that they have people in positions of power, such as Santorum, that want to appease them.
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TheGunslinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 01:23 AM
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5. Is Lusk's church still tax-exempt?
And, btw, Santorum wouldn't know far-left if Chavez knocked on his door.
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 01:29 AM
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6. Makes it look like bush used taxes to buy the rev's support, doesn't it?
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 11:51 PM
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13. bushco* DID use federal tax monies to buy the fundigelicals support
Make no mistake, bushco*'s "faith-based initiatives" are just seemingly clever ways to get around the separation of church and state. Moneychangers in the temple comes to mind.
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appleannie1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 02:01 AM
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7. I am a real Christian
and this movement bothers me. They want prayer in school, to overturn Roe V Wade and whole lot more. If they win the prayer in school thing, I say that anyone that is of another religion should stop paying school taxes since they are not supposed to be sending their children to a religious school. If the Falwell followers want prayer in school, they should start their own. And I will not say what I think of Santorum.
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 02:40 AM
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8. When will "Justice Sunday IV: The Vengeance" come?
really, wingnuts, you're cheapening your arguments with this tawdry crap.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 03:18 AM
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9. Remember. Harriet Meyers was the BEST choice out there
SO why should America settle for second best in the case of the Supreme Court.

Keep reminding everyone everyday.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 05:16 AM
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10. ah RIcky, on the one hand trying to look more moderate at home
for the reelection (ex - now ID should not be taught in schools) - but at the same time needing to pander the the far religious right.... eight months ago the pandering was due to delusional visions of granduer (his dreams of becoming pres), now just pandering for campaign donations to keep his reelection hopes alive. Watching him distance himself from the RR and then go back to the RR is rather interesting/amusing.
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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 11:43 PM
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11. Today, Alito's statements regarding traditional family
and traditions, (sorry, don't have his exact words) seem to reinforce the message of the news item.
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nickdemouu Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-11-06 07:36 AM
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17. Alito
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH ALITO HYPE?
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antonialee839 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-10-06 11:46 PM
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12. I thought I emailed this sorry excuse for a senator the other
day asking that he get get busy on getting our soldiers the protection they need to keep from being needlessly killed in the line of duty, apparently he has other priorities.
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LiviaOlivia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-11-06 12:07 AM
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14. Santorum, Norquist and Delay sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G. The "K" Street project.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-11-06 12:15 AM
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15. Well fuck that...
"The only way to restore this republic our founders envisioned is to elevate honorable jurists like Samuel Alito," Our founders vision included slavery and excluded women's and minorities right to vote...of course I guess that sounds like Vallhalla to senator man on dog!!! Strict constructionist is just doublespeak for mysogonistic bigot!:grr:
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complain jane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-11-06 01:06 AM
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16. Clown.
Edited on Wed Jan-11-06 01:07 AM by the dogfish
Fucking clown.

A genuine endorsement for abortion if ever I've seen one would be Rick Santorum.
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