Pro-Life Pray-In Planned to Stop Specter

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Pro-Life Pray-In Planned to Stop Specter
By Erin Brezsnyak
CNSNews.com Correspondent
November 05, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - Several Christian groups announced Friday that they would conduct a "pray-in" to protest the possible appointment of Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) is expected to decide who will succeed Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) as head of the panel.

Specter faces growing opposition from conservatives determined to keep him from ascending to chairmanship of the committee that would handle any new nominations President Bush makes to the U.S. Supreme Court, because Specter supports abortion rights.

"We urge people to contact Senator Frist and let him know that the president needs a loyal man at the helm of the Judiciary Committee, and that man is not Senator Specter," Rev. Pat Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said in a statement.

They're on a roll, huh?

The GOP is welcome to fight amongst itself, of course, but surely Specter has earned it? Isn't it a matter of seniority?

Especially hoping the moderates jump ship and either go Democrat, or independent.

This kind of stuff is all we are going to hear ... over and over and over again! Let's hope we don't get used to it.

They want centerstage in the Republican ranks? Give it to them. Let's see how long their party can hold together.


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