Our laws are based on the ten commandments

The quote above is from an attendee at the recent "Justice Sunday" rally in Tennessee. According to the news story, this man believes "Supreme Court justices try to create laws with their rulings instead of interpreting the Constitution"
Amen brother! This court indicated that protecting states' rights was its priority through most of their decisions prior to 2000 (even when the states' laws went against what some might have seen as the spirit of the US Constitution), but then in 2000 they determined the federal election law overrode state law and policy. Damned activist judges.

Speaking of which, Katherine Harris, former Florida Sec of State (whose decisions in November 2000 delayed the recounts and made such a mess of the presidential ballot recount that the state was left with a constitutionally questionable recount process, which provided the US Supreme court with the basis for their rulings) is running for Senate. Damned activist executive branch appointees.


(excerpts from)
Thousands Fill Church for 'Justice Sunday'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Thousands of people filled a church Sunday night for "Justice Sunday II," an event organizers said wasn't necessarily about pushing for the confirmation of John Roberts for the U.S. Supreme Court, but more about supporting justices who don't have radical agendas.

The second in a series of demonstrations televised for broadcast at churches across the country included in its list of planned speakers U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and conservative Christian activist Phyllis Schlafly.

Mike Miller, 54, of Gallatin who attended the rally, said he believes Supreme Court justices try to create laws with their rulings instead of interpreting the Constitution.

"Activist justices — we're trying to find out what we can do to stop that activity," he said. "Our laws are based on the Ten Commandments."

Full AP story through Yahoo is available here (for now).
More stories on this event
SF Chronicle
NY Times
Washington Post

Where'd this flak about activist judges come from? It seems to have been popularized by the morality freaks in our legislature, most notably, by Tom DeLay.

Who is Tom DeLay?
(Some highlights)
He's a rep from Texas and the house majority leader.
He was instrumental in ramming Medicare "reform" through the house.
He threatened judges.
He's corrupt.
He hangs with Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council folks.
He's a directly elected official who continues to serve as Majority Leader because the house changed it's ethics rules to keep him in power. Which means we have no one to blame but ourselves for this. We elected these people.

I just gotta get on the soap box here for a sec.
If you're ever thinking that you're fed up with the political tone of the country, for the love of GOD, look up your federal legislative officials, contact them to let them know where you stand on issues, and cast an informed ballot in those elections. Imagine how different things would be if our senate and house had NOT gone along with Bush and Co. on things like the tax reform legislation from 2004, the recent energy "reform" package, medicare reform, the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq.....

We vote DIRECTLY for these people, or perhaps it's more accurate to say that the christian fundamentalists vote directly for these people. Most of us don't even know who our reps are. That has GOT to change, otherwise we can look forward to more DeLays and perhaps someday in the not too distant future, Mr. John Q. Cracker will be correct - our laws will be written, interpretted, and executed by frighteningly smug zealots.