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Toto · 04-11-2003, 11:15 AM

Where are they finding these people?

It appears that Republican Senators from the Northeast with liberal constituencies may be the only thread holding us away from theocracy.

Attack on Judicial Nominee Leads Senate Panel to Delay Vote

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The delay, requested by Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, was an unusual step for the committee's Republicans, who generally unite firmly behind President Bush's nominees.

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One example the Democrats cited was a 1997 article that Dr. Holmes and his wife, Susan, wrote for a newspaper, Arkansas Catholic, about men, women and Roman Catholicism. The article said that "the wife is to subordinate herself to her husband" and that "the woman is to place herself under the authority of the man" in the same way that "the church is to place herself under the protection of Christ."

The same article went on to say, "It is not a coincidence that the feminist movement brought with it artificial contraception and abortion on demand, with recognition of homosexual liaisons soon to follow."

In 1980, Dr. Holmes, who would soon become a leader in the anti-abortion movement in Arkansas, minimized concerns about the effect on rape victims of a proposed constitutional amendment banning abortion. "Concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami," he wrote in a letter to the editor of a newspaper then.

And in an article he wrote in 1982, Dr. Holmes, assessing societal problems and responses to them, compared the abortion rights movement to the Nazis. "The pro-abortionists counsel us to respond to these problems by abandoning what little morality our society still recognizes," he wrote. "This was attempted by one highly sophisticated, historically Christian nation in our century � Nazi Germany."

When he appeared before the committee at his confirmation hearing last month, Dr. Holmes testified that he would have no trouble separating his personal views from his professional duties as a federal judge. He also acknowledged that some of his language, especially when he first became involved in the anti-abortion movement, had been "unduly strident and inflammatory," and said the comment about rape victims "is particularly troublesome to me from the distance of 23 years later."

But as Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, read some of Dr. Holmes's statements today at a meeting where the Judiciary Committee was to have voted on the nomination, opposition seemed further energized.

dangin · 04-11-2003, 12:10 PM

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Originally posted by Toto
Where are they finding these people?

Attack on Judicial Nominee Leads Senate Panel to Delay Vote

Freaks - R - Us

Ab_Normal · 04-11-2003, 12:42 PM

What color is the sky in their world? And can they go back there and leave the rest of us the fuck alone?

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Ab_Normal Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,842	What color is the sky in their world? And can they go back there and leave the rest of us the fuck alone?

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