Frank Rich and "Justice Sunday"

this makes three weeks in a row that i've said how incredibly glad i am that frank rich is back full-time on the nyt op-ed page... we need a voice of sanity in this insane time we're living through...

The "Justice Sunday" mob is also lying when it claims to despise activist judges as a matter of principle. [...] 'Activist judges' is a code word for gay." The judges being verbally tarred and feathered are those who have decriminalized gay sex (in a Supreme Court decision written by Justice Kennedy) as they once did abortion and who countenance marriage rights for same-sex couples.

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Anyone who doesn't get with this program, starting with all Democrats, is damned as a bigoted enemy of "people of faith." But "people of faith," as used by the event's organizers, is another duplicitous locution; it's a code word for only one specific and exclusionary brand of Christianity.

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Perhaps the closest historical antecedent of tonight's crusade was that staged in the 1950's and 60's by a George Wallace ally, the televangelist Billy James Hargis. At its peak, his so-called Christian Crusade was carried by 500 radio stations and more than 200 television stations. In the "Impeach Earl Warren" era, Hargis would preach of the "collapse of moral values" engineered by a "powerfully entrenched, anti-God Liberal Establishment." He also decried any sex education that talked about homosexuality or even sexual intercourse. Or so he did until his career was ended by accusations that he had had sex with female students at the Christian college he founded as well as with boys in the school's All-American Kids choir.

i actually remember billy james hargis... his outfit took over an old hotel in manitou springs and brought in these young kids from all over the country to indoctrinate them and, evidently, to do other things to them as well...

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