Reform Jewish Movement Suggest Questions for Judge Roberts ..

[struggle4progress]

.. to the Judiciary Committee

<snip> While we have not taken a position on Judge Roberts's nomination, the Reform Jewish Movement believes that any person receiving a lifetime appointment to the highest Court in our nation must go through a comprehensive and exhaustive hearings process. Such a process requires genuine, thorough and tough questioning that sheds light on the nominee's temperament, constitutional beliefs, and judicial philosophies. <snip>

The issue that received the most questions was the separation of church and state, closely followed by questions pertaining to reproductive rights. While the questions ranged in theme and style, they all demonstrate the voices of Americans who understand what is at stake in this process. <snip>

The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism is the Washington office of the Union for Reform Judaism, whose more than 900 congregations across North America encompass 1.5 million Reform Jews, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, whose membership includes more than 1800 Reform rabbis.

http://press.arrivenet.com/pol/article.php/688609.html

[Gloria]

1. FOR YEARS, literally, I have referred to Reform Judaism in

terms of religious freedom...since they don't believe that life begins at the thought of sex, but at birth.

Thanks for posting this....