Christian group to ask judicial candidates about faith

[OneBlueSky]

if Bush is elected and appoints a few Supreme Court judges, is this the kind of stuff well be in for? . . .

http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040209/APN/402090532

A Christian activist group wants to ask candidates for the Alabama Supreme Court where they attend church, what actions they have taken on anti-abortion issues and whether marriage should be defined as being between a man and a woman.

The League of Christian Voters - hoping to capitalize on momentum seized during last summer's protests of a Ten Commandments monument's removal from the state judicial building - has proposed the 10-question list for the three seats up for election this fall.

"You've got ten commandments, you've got ten questions," said Jim Zeigler, a Mobile attorney and chairman of the league, a political action committee.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June 2002 gave judicial candidates greater leeway to talk about issues such as abortion and school prayer while campaigning. But Zeigler said it's unclear whether his group's questionnaire is permissible, and he has asked the state Judicial Inquiry Commission for an opinion.

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http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040209/APN/402090532

[buck4freedom]

1. When oh When...

Are we going to pull non-profit and tax free status of churches?

It's ridiculous that we allow these "churches" to function as unregulated PACs rather than do what they are incorporated to do.

[PVnRT]

2. Isn't this legal under some state laws?

I thought this was legal (though despicable) in Alabama.

[yellowcanine]

3. Well, they can ask; the judges don't have to answer

Do any of these groups even give a rat's ass about the Establishment Clause of the Constitution? Sounds like they are looking for a religious test for candidates to me.

[DenverDem]

4. These radical fundamentalists are not Christians.

This is the meme that needs to be inserted into this debate.

Fundamentalism is hate based judgementalism and is 180 degrees opposite the teachings of grace, forgiveness and agape love that is Jesus' message.

The ten commandments are not Jesus' words, he came to transcend that legalistic crap. His commandments are found in The Beatitudes.