How Jesus Endorsed Bush's Invasion of Iraq Post on 28-10-2006. By Damon Linker, Doubleday. Posted October 28, 2006. In the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, Bush needed the approval of religious leaders to shore up his religious base and one group of Catholic theoconservatives were happy to help him do just that. Tools For much of the past 25 years, one small group of Catholic intellectuals has worked to inject its radical religious ideas into the nation's politics. The leader of this theoconservative movement is Father Richard John Neuhaus. In the pages of his monthly magazine _First Things_, Neuhaus and his ideological allies set the theocon agenda on one range of policies. Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute argues that the American founders were orthodox religious believers who thought of the United States as one Christian nation -- and that American-style capitalism perfectly conforms to Catholic social teaching. Robert P. George of Princeton University insists that abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, and same-sex marriage (and perhaps even contraception and masturbation) should be outlawed. And George Weigel of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center uses Catholic just-war reasoning to justify neoconservative foreign policy. As the U.S. began to prepare for war in Iraq in 2002, the theocons set out to provide theological justification for the coming conflagration. ... To see the new from its original source click here Ten days to the elections, and the mud's flying fast Post on 28-10-2006. Democratic Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. was the target of one controversial attack ad in Tennessee that was subsequently withdrawn. one new one claims he "wants to give the abortion pill to schoolchildren." Well, that's what the Republican challenger for his Wisconsin congressional seat, Paul Nelson, claims in his new ads, the ones with "XXX" stamped across Kind's face. It turns out that Kind — along with more than 200 of his fellow hedonists in the House — opposed an unsuccessful effort to stop the National Institutes of Health from pursuing peer-reviewed sex studies. According to Nelson's ads, the Democrat also wants to "let illegal aliens burn the American flag" and "allow convicted child molesters to enter this country." ... To see the new from its original source click here

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