The Dem's religious phobia

Mort Kondrake:

After the 2004 election, many prominent Democrats agreed that they had to learn to talk the language of religion and show respect for religious voters if they were to broaden the party's appeal.

But the minute Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) signed on to participate in a religious-right rally against the Senate filibuster, prominent Democrats such as Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) flew into a rage.

Kerry declared before Frist had said a word that he would "appeal to religious division" and "invoke faith to rewrite Senate rules to put substandard, extremist judges on our bench."

Reid said - also ahead of time - that Frist was a "radical" for agreeing to participate in the televised "Justice Sunday" rally, which billed the filibustering of President Bush's judicial nominees as "against people of faith."

As it turned out, Frist didn't say a word about religion. He defended himself against the "radical" charge and promoted up-or-down Senate votes on judicial nominations.

But the level of outrage expressed by Democrats and various liberals over the rally could only lead religious conservatives to conclude that, despite their 2004 vows to respect people of faith, the Democrats still don't get it.

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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) noted that one of Bush's appointees, Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, a Roman Catholic, was being opposed by Democrats for his "deeply held beliefs" against abortion - even though he ruled that the state's late-term abortion law was unconstitutional.

"So, clearly," Sessions said, Pryor "could follow the law even though he disagreed with it." He implied that Democrats opposed Pryor because they disagreed with his religious views. "We can't have a democracy with a religious test," he said.

Sessions said that, with exceptions, it's "totally bogus" that religious voters want to "impose their views on everybody." Rather, "they feel disrespected and misunderstood, especially by the media." And, they think that the courts are determined to "secularize America far beyond what the people want to do."

Democrats need to overcome their fear of of people who are religious.

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