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Pro-family group opposes Roberts
Yesterday I wrote: “If these conservatives had any allegiance to principle instead of having sold themselves body and soul to George W. Bush … they would call for the withdrawal of this nomination.” Thankfully, we’re seeing just such a sign of life and principle in the conservative movement. A pro-family Virginia group called Public Advocate of the United States announced on Tuesday that it is opposing John Roberts’s Supreme Court nomination because of the work he did a decade ago to get Colorado’s anti-homosexual rights referendum declared unconstitutional.
The group’s president, Eugene Delgaudio, had said last week that if “Judge Roberts did provide advice on how to overturn this pro-family measure overwhelmingly supported by the people of Colorado, then Public Advocate calls on President Bush to withdraw his nomination of Judge Roberts immediately.”What a relief to find at least one pro-family conservative leader who’s not a little lapdog to the son of the lapdog! Equally welcome is Delgaudio’s disapproval of Cheney. How many “conservatives” denounced (1) Cheney’s support for homosexual marriage (whether in 2000 or 2004), and (2) Bush’s tacit approval of his vice president’s unprecedented step of publicly taking issue with the president’s own (supposed) position? It’s nice to have some company, because it can get lonely here. Here’s what I said about Cheney last October.
Of course, the dissent of Delgaudio’s group alone cannot turn this shameful situation around. What is needed is for the conservative and Christian organizations across the board to follow his lead. That would stop in its tracks Bush’s transformation of American conservatism. Email entry |