Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Oct. 5th, 2005 12:01 pmAmerican Veterans in Domestic Defense (AVIDD) to protest "pornographic" books in Texas libraries - specifically, books with any GBLT characters or too many bad words as part of their campaign against "domestic enemies";
Colorado senator Salazar wants to know what "secret" James Dobson claims to know about Supreme Court judicial nominee Harriet Miers;
Focus on the Family sends out a SPECIAL REPORT saying that Dobson will explain his support for Harriet Miers on today's main Focus on the Family broadcast;
Focus on the Family main broadcast transcription (rough); rough summary; I know Miers's pastor, I know people around her, she's a tithe-paying member of a very conservative church; I know things I can't talk about firsthand, not hearsay; trust me, she's one of us;
FotF's take on the Oregon assisted-suicide Supreme Court case;
FotF's take on various anti-abortion cases coming to the SCOTUS;
Wisconsin to be location of authorised stem-cell research lines - FotF says it's still murdering babies;
Federal appeals court allows Ohio's 24-hour waiting period for abortion services to take effect; also invokes parental notification;
Civil Union bill in Connecticut takes effect; Family Institute of Connecticut calls it "tragic";
Roy Moore (Alabama) to run for Governor;
Wiccan vet tries to get appropriate symbol approved for headstone; no luck yet;
Hospital turns away neopagan group's fundraiser and orders them not to use their name in any future charitable fundraisers; donations now going to a South Dakota reservation;
Agape Press article on various reactions by social conservatives to Harriet Myers;
Miers donated to an anti-abortion group in Texas, but nobody there really remembers her as being particularly involved;
Family Research Council adopts "wait and see" on Miers;
FRC rails against "gender-changing" Ronald McDonald after seeing a McDonald's commercial in Japan with a female clown - no, really.
( Transcriptions, excerpts, press releases, the lot )