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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Keep out  theocratic US

Thank you from Italy, dear Youth.

You might want to check out the Editorial in today's (April 26, 2005) New York Times: The Disappearing Wall
"Apart from confirming an unwholesome disrespect for traditional American values like checks and balances, the assault on judges is part of a wide-ranging and successful Republican campaign to breach the wall between church and state to advance a particular brand of religion. No theoretical exercise, the program is having a corrosive effect on policymaking and the lives of Americans. ...
"In a recent Op-Ed article in The Times, John Danforth, the former Republican senator and U.N. ambassador who is also a minister, said his party was becoming a political arm of the religious right. He called it a formula for divisiveness that ultimately threatened the party's future. With the nation lurching toward the government sponsorship of religion, and the Senate nearing a showdown over Mr. Bush's egregious judicial nominees, it is a warning well worth heeding
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/opinion/26tue1.html?

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