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Wars On Faiths
21 April 2005Jewish leaders from the American Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and B'nai B'rith International have all bristled at the conservative message -- promoted in recent events like Tom DeLay's speech at the "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith" conference and the upcoming "Justice Sunday" telecast -- that "religion is under judicial attack," as an affront to democracy, to the separation of church and state and that between government branches, and a manipulation of fear to set the stage for far-right Supreme Court judges. In an essay in The Forward, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of The Shalom Center, accused DeLay and Sen. Bill Frist of trying to make a religious test for the judiciary that, as such, was an attack on Judaism by "[casting] contempt on other religious paths as 'anti-faith' and [seeking] to impose their own religious views on the body politic" by imposing it on the courts.
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