Pro-Family Group Sponsors Rally Focused On Stopping Judicial Activism
by Allie Martin
August 12, 2005
(AgapePress) - Christian activists will gather Sunday evening, August 14, at Nashville's Two Rivers Baptist Church to highlight battles over the Supreme Court and judicial tyranny across America. The event is called "Justice Sunday II: God Save the United States and This Honorable Court." Organized and sponsored by the Family Research Council (FRC), the program features speakers such as James Dobson and Jim Daly of Focus on the Family, Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson, Ted Haggard of the National Association of Evangelicals, former Senator Zell Miller (D-Georgia), and others. FRC president Tony Perkins says the event will be both educational and motivational.
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Justice Sunday II is designed "to inform and educate the Christian community and others around this country that are concerned about what the courts have done to our culture and to our country in the last 40 years," Perkins explains. "We'll be talking about that, but we'll also be giving some very practical steps on what people can do to make a difference over the next four to six weeks when the United States Senate will be holding hearings on the President's nominee for the United States Supreme Court, Judge John Roberts." According to an Associated Press report, some interfaith groups are denouncing the Nashville rally, which they see as an endorsement by religious conservatives of President Bush's high court nominee. National Council of Churches leader Bob Edgar says the event should be called "Just Us Sunday," because it does not represent the diverse views of people of faith. And Rabbi David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism notes that his group does not think religious groups should be endorsing individuals.
However, Perkins insists that the event is not just about Judge Roberts, but is about the future of the American judiciary and the need for believers to be aware of what is going on there. "In particular," the FRC spokesman says, "this simulcast is designed to really prepare the way for what may be a three-year-long debate, because the president not only will have this opportunity that's here with the nomination of John Roberts, but there's great anticipation and expectation that the president may nominate as many as three more Supreme Court justices in the next three years."
The goal of the Nashville rally, Perkins adds, is to make concerned Christians aware of what they can do to speak out against and combat judicial activism. "So we're paving the way in getting Christians across this country involved in this aspect of government, which is so critical to the future of the country," he says.
Justice Sunday II will be broadcast live on American Family Radio as well as on Sky Angel, Trinity Broadcasting Network. The Nashville event, which is the follow-up to "Justice Sunday - Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith," will also be carried on hundreds of radio and Christian TV stations nationwide, as well as via live webcast on the FRC website.
Allie Martin, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
