Republicans Attack Constitution!

Frist Set to Use Religious Stage on Judicial Issue
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Senator Bill Frist will participate in a telecast
portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for
blocking the president's nominees.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/politics/15judges.html?th&emc=th

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AMENDMENT I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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As I spent several decades as a member of the ACLU Church-State Advisory Committee focused on the First Amendment, I am appalled by this direct Republican attack upon it -- and the rule of law generally!