Judge received death threats after ruling on intelligent design

[cynatnite]

LAWRENCE, Kan. - A judge who struck down a Dover, Penn., school board's decision to teach intelligent design in public schools said he was stunned by the reaction, which included death threats and a week of protection from federal marshals.

Pennsylvania U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III told an audience in Lawrence Tuesday that the case illustrated why judges must issue rulings free of political whims or hopes of receiving a favor.

In a 139-page decision last year, Jones ruled that the Dover school board intended to promote religion when it instituted a policy requiring students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution. He ruled that it is unconstitutional to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution.

"And if you would have told me when I got on the bench four years ago that I would have death threats in a case like this as opposed to, for example, a crack cocaine case where I mete out a heavy sentence, I would have told you that you were crazy," he said. "But I did. And that's a sad statement."

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[MadMaddie]

1. Yea....and * has made it okay to make threats against judges.....

[valerief]

2. Judges, the new abortion doctors. Well, the new targets of

Crazy People wrath.

[Horse with no Name]

3. Oh please

Surely you don't mean "the radical Christians" that Rosie O'Donnell spoke of and was soundly trounced by the RW punditry?
Say it isn't so? I know because I heard it on the TeeVee. They are just harmless folk. Well cepting for blowing up abortion clinics and all, they are harmless. Cepting for blowing up Federal buildings in Oklahoma and all, they are harmless. Cepting for planting bombs at the Olympics in Atlanta, they are harmless. Cepting for threatening Michael Schiavo's entire family--including his small children and all, they are harmless.
The list could go on and on, cepting I am going to stop so I can :puke:

[cui bono]

4. well it really is his own fault...

he shouldn't be such an activist.

:sarcasm:

[MikeNearMcChord]

5. So when do we start seeing radical fundie Christians

declared enemy combatants? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?