Today's Cultural Warfare Update

I get the impression that the fundamentalists have decided the GOP is going to lose the Senate in the fall. Either that, or they're just wanting to cover their bets. Either way, the major groups are all shifting their focus to judicial nominees again. They want the courts loaded with as many theocon-friendly judges as possible before November.

Anyway, here's today's news.

A report from the Texas GOP state-convention-cum-revival-meeting;

Focus on the Family: the most important thing for the Republicans to do is to get as many judicial nominee votes done as possible before the elections; it sounds to me like they're expecting the GOP to lose the Senate in the fall; includes ACTION ITEM to demand lots more judicial appointments before November, particularly on the filibustered judges;

Focus on the Family runs a story on the reported police harassment of anti-gay signature gatherers in Florida; this seems unlikely to me, but who knows; includes ACTION ITEM against the officer, which they name;

Focus on the Family cheers theocratic candidate gains in South Dakota primaries, claim it's a show of support for the abortion ban recently passed in the state;

FotF runs a Don Feder commentary condemning opposition to the anti-marriage amendment as "hypocrisy and cynicism," mocking Federalism as a valid reason to do anything, and insisting there is no valid reason to oppose the so-called Marriage Protection Amendment;

Tennessee anti-Marriage Amendment may get stopped on technical grounds;

"Court Upholds Catholic School's Right to Fire Pro-Abortion Teacher"; the pro-choice act of the teacher was political, which is interesting;

Focus on the Family's Citizen magazine profiles and lauds the virulently anti-gay Rev. Herbert Lusk, formerly an NFL player;

Faith and Freedom Network says: "nothing has changed for Faith & Freedom, our network of people and the work that God has called us to do," and also, please give us money;

Focus on the Family Canada starts pushing the Biblical Worldview/The Truth Project effort discussed extensively in previous CWUs;

Concerned Women for America acts in concert with Focus on the Family to shift focus on judges, judges, judges - before the mid-term elections;

More of the same from CWA: get as many judges through as you can before the elections;

Is the IRS stepping in? South Dakota churches being told that they campaign at risk of losing tax-exempt status;

Agape Press talks about another Senate vote on the anti-marriage amendment(!) after the House votes;

Family Research Council does the Judicial Two-Step with Focus on the Family and Concerned Women for America;

FRC testimony against "human cloning," which is to say, embryonic stem-cell research in all its forms; urges comprehensive ban against all forms of embryonic stem-cell research (in the form of a ban on "human cloning";

American Family Association agit-prop story pushing more school library censorship;

Michigan GOP chair condemns McCain vote on anti-marriage Federal amendment;

Lots of fun in today's Agape Press Newsbriefs, so I'm including individual sentences from several items; click through for the whole thing, as always;

Focus on the Family Canada: "Christian youth lack Biblical worldview";

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