Special Report
Judge Not
The Religious Left opposes Bush judicial nominees — religiously.
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But Edgar and other Religious Left activists resorted to fear and religious zeal when, in March, they condemned President Bush’s budget proposals. “Jesus makes clear that perpetrating economic injustice is among the gravest of sins,” intoned their joint ecumenical statement signed by the officers of five mainline Protestant denominations. As words of warning to Bush, they cited the Gospel of Luke’s reference to a rich man in Hell crying out for mercy after a life of indifference to the poor, and they urged church members to “do justice” by “opposing this budget.”
Senator Frist never implied anyone might go to Hell because of their votes on President Bush’s judicial nominees. Damnation is apparently a penalty only for opposing liberal political causes.
Mark Tooley is United Methodist director at the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C.
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Mark Tooley is president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C. and author of Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century. You can follow him on Twitter @markdtooley.
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