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To: JeffA who wrote (49864)	6/15/2005 3:46:29 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

You are kidding right? It is impossible to escape the Christian Religious Holiday of Christmas while being in the US of A usually from about August through January. You are kidding right? It's pervasive and yet not good enough for the fundamentalist Christocrats who are trying to supplant secular ideas with their beliefs. If you do not think that extremist evangelical christians are trying to make the US of A into a theocracy, then you're not thinking. For Dobson, his followers, and many American evangelicals--who made up nearly a quarter of the electorate last Election Day and who voted for President Bush by a factor of almost 4 to 1--change might finally be in the offing. Next week brings the second inauguration of the most religious evangelical president in modern history; he is expected to fill a string of Supreme Court vacancies with strongly conservative voices. And a handful of newly elected senators allied with the evangelical movement have already taken their seats on Capitol Hill.... obson, for his part, is ready to play hardball, having already sent letters to 1.2 million supporters in which he threatens to challenge six "red" and "purple" state Democratic senators up for re-election in 2006 if they filibuster Bush's conservative judicial nominees:... Dobson has never been so baldly political.... "I have a very close relationship with Jim," Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, the Senate's No. 3 Republican, tells U.S. News . "I consider him a friend." Indeed, "his influence [in Washington] is huge," says Land, who is widely seen as closer to the White House than Dobson. "He may not be an insider, but he can shut down the phone lines in Congress." Just after Election Day, he almost did, encouraging listeners to phone Congress to block Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter--who had warned Bush against judicial nominees who would overturn Roe --from assuming the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee. Some Hill offices logged a thousand-plus calls from abortion opponents after Dobson's broadcast. In a show of how disciplined and organized the Christian right's leadership has become, a recently formed coalition of powerful religious activists known as the Arlington Group convened a conference call during which its members--including Dobson--agreed that it would be wiser to straitjacket Specter than to derail him... Weyrich tells U.S. News that, in a meeting with Specter after his public vow of support for Bush's nominees, he secured an additional pledge from the senator to allow conservative committee members to appoint some committee staff.... ==========http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/050117/17evangelicals.htm This is as bad as having ExxonMobil write global warming policy for Bush. This is ridiculous. This government is for ALL the people, not for a self-appointed greedy bully using fake christianity for personal political and financial gain. It's despicable.