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"America is the only country in the developed world in which a large majority continues to profess belief in a supreme being; slightly more than half our people are formally affiliated with a church, which also is anomalous among advanced nations."
But yet almost every other "Developed" country has a better standard of living and higher education level. Think that could be related?
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On the organization's website, one of the challengers, Craig Candelore — a family lawyer who specializes in protecting men's rights — says that "many of our courts don't reflect our values anymore." What those might be is pretty clear from this entry on the Zion Christian Fellowship website: "The reason for our present dilemma is not ultimately assertive and demanding homosexuals, or biblically ignorant judges, or even a scripturally devoid electorate. It is ultimately a spiritually impotent church, which … allowed and caused ungodly persons to be elected, who in turn selected unbiblical judges."
Given the usual dearth of journalistic reporting in the run-up to judicial elections, and the low turnout in primary elections, small but motivated groups of extremists such as Better Courts Now can have an outsized influence. In fact, San Diego's actual demographics give its "values" campaign more than a whiff of the putsch: Just 14% of the county's residents are evangelical Christians, on behalf of whose values the slate claims to speak, while 67.5% are Roman Catholics and 8% belong to mainline Protestant churches.
Still, religious conservatives across the country recently have used low-profile, low-turnout local elections to transform school boards and other local offices into political platforms operating as an annex of the pulpit. Better Court Now and its adherents have wider ambitions of their own. As Candelore told one interviewer: "If we can take our judiciary, we can take our legislature and our executive branch."
Perhaps; which is why they should be stopped now.
San Diego judicial races: Better Courts Now pushes conservative agenda - latimes.com
In San Diego, four sitting judges are being challenged by candidates hand-picked by an organization called Better Courts Now and backed by a coalition of evangelical pastors, an El Cajon gun store and opponents of reproductive choice and marriage equality. The organization was established by the late Rev. Don Hamer, who until his death two months ago was pastor of San Diego's Zion Christian Fellowship. He took a particularly active role in the campaign for Proposition 8 and, during the presidential election, produced a series of videos purporting to prove that Barack Obama was a secret Muslim.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0602-rutten-20100602,0,7718272.column
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