I can't stand Jay Sekulow

[Orrex]

He has a daily syndicated call-in radio program much-favored by religious stations. The ostensible purpose is to educate listeners about their legal rights under the Constitution, but pretty much every episode immediately degrades into an interactive screed about how those damned anti-American secularists are trying to steal your bible.

What really galls me is the format of the presentation. Sekulow fields every call with a breathless air of faux-urgency, as though the republic will crumble unless this particular caller is permitted to install a giant crucifix in the Oval Office right this very second!!!!!

To his minimal credit, he doesn't actually challenge the First Amendment per se, but he is furiously aggressive in arguing that, short of a Congressionally-drafted law endorsing Christianity, all else is fair game.

He holds the American Civil Liberties Union in particular contempt, and conveniently his own organization is the American Center for Law and Justice. Note the similarity of initials, which I can't believe is a coincidence.

One odd note: when Michael Newdow was on the program about a year ago, Sekulow was surprisingly courteous and professional, despite having spent days and weeks decrying Newdow's case as an attempt to force God out of the public square.

I don't really have a point, I guess, other than to bitch about yet another annoying, overpaid mouthpiece for the Radical Right.

[kwolf68]

1. Lawyers

They said Edwards chased money by finding hapless "victims" for frivilous lawsuits. This guy is no different and this cottage industry is ultimately more profitable.

[jhrobbins]

2. Isn't he the Christian convert from UT Austin?

If he is the one I am thinking about, he is a piece of right wing work. He used to be Jewish, but he has now embraced Christianity with a fervor of a convert.

[greyl]

3. I agree, he's not a good human specimen at all.

I've never heard his show, but I've seen him unleash some truly horrid and angry arguments against the ACLU.

[meegbear]

4. The American Center for Law and Justice ...

was created by Pat Robertson to be his legal team to fight against ACLU religious cases. He purposely named it ACLJ to "spite" the ACLU (how it spites them, I don't know).

[TlalocW]

5. I subscribe to his newsletter on of my junk emails

Just to see what the latest urgent thing is - it always relates to crosses on public land or students not being allowed to stand up during math classes and preach to the students. I guess I actually gave them my real phone number once, and I got a phone call from them about abortion, and when I said I was pro-choice the lady on the other end was stunned into silence for 10 seconds.

TlalocW