The religious right trying to shape courts- YIKES!

In what I consider an ominous, though by no means surprising sign, some religious groups are now trying to find ways to shape and change courts to mold them to their liking. Besides the obvious part where the constitution mentions separation of church and state, this does not seem to bother conservatives one bit. Kind of funny that they don't apply their "slippery slope" logic that they use with gun controls to areas such as this isn't it?

Two religious leaders were part of a large convention where this was the topic, reigning in courts by having judges removed, or restricting funding or other ways. Does that scare anyone? Cutting funding to a judge or a particular court because we don't agree with their ruling? Isn't this sort of idiocity exactly why the founding fathers wrote the checks and balances into the constitution? One of the religious big wigs at the conference was one of my personal favorites, good ol James Dobson, founder of the group Focus on the Family (some have jokingly referred to it as focus on censorship and focus on homophobia). What is even more scary is you have leading conservative political figures such as Tom DeLay and Bill Frist there as well.

I am by no means surprised by such a conference though. It is common knowledge that the religous wrong (whoops I mean right) delivered the election win to the Republicans, you just had to wonder when the bill what come due. Looks like that time is just about here.


Here is the article from the LATimes via Yahoo (I would have made reference to the liberal media here but apparently that is getting a rest because it is just worn out!):
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=716&e=30&u=/latimests/20050422/ts_latimes/2evangelicalswanttostripcourtsfunds