(LOL, "...Frist was not invited to speak at Sunday's rally..." in Tennessee!)
Thu Aug 11, 2005 03:41 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberal religious leaders on Thursday criticized Sunday's planned rally to back U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts and said its Christian conservative organizers should not drag religion into his confirmation fight. "There is no one religious position on the Roberts nomination, no one religious view on the future of the court or the cases it will hear," Rev. Bill Sinkford, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, told reporters in a conference call.
Sinkford and other religious leaders criticized plans for the evangelical rally, which is designed to build support for Roberts' nomination and highlight what organizers say is the court's judicial activism and hostility to religion. The Sunday rally in Nashville, Tennessee, is the second televised church event co-sponsored by prominent Christian conservative groups like the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family. The event is titled "Justice Sunday II: God Save the United States and this Honorable Court."
The first "Justice Sunday" rally in April attacked Democrats filibustering against President Bush's judicial nominees, saying the Democrats were opposed to people of faith.
It featured an appearance by Senate Republican leader Bill Frist.
Frist was not invited to speak at Sunday's rally after he recently broke with Bush and supported an expansion of human embryonic stem cell research. House of Representatives Republican leader Tom DeLay of Texas will speak on Sunday. <
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=9351198&src=rss/politicsNews>
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