"CHURCHY WANNA GET PAID"

I don't recall who wrote that but it certainly captures the stink the Fundies are going to raise about the upcoming SC nomination. (Last night, I heard Janet Parshall complain about the 4 female senators writing to O'Connor to ask her to postpone her resignation until after Rehnquist resigns.)

Here's a good article about them:

Religious right wants its due from Bush, GOP
Court opening seen as golden moment
By Mike Dorning
Chicago TribuneWashington BureauPublished July 17, 2005
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0507170313jul17,1,1392311.story


"We have very little to show for all these years of electing Republicans. If we don't get a decent nominee, we've got to ask ourselves what we have been doing," said Paul Weyrich, a longtime leader of social conservatives who helped found the Moral Majority and is now chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation. "For President Bush, social conservatives and the senators they helped elect, the moment of truth has arrived," said Richard Land, head of the public policy agency for the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest non-Catholic denomination.

Religious conservatives heard Bush the candidate regularly tout Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas as models for a judicial nominee. They understood that to mean someone who, like Scalia and Thomas, adheres to a narrow "strict constructionist" reading of the Constitution that does not find a basis for rights to abortion, homosexual sex or sale of pornography and allows a greater role for religion in public life.Anything less, or any effort to split the difference by picking one strong conservative and one more-moderate candidate if conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist should resign this summer, "would be a grave error, a missed opportunity and a betrayal," said Phyllis Schlafly, founder of the Eagle Forum.

Rev. Tim LaHaye, author of the popular "Left Behind" Christian book series and one of the evangelical leaders who 25 years ago left the meeting with Carter deeply disappointed, said the importance of the choice facing Bush is unmistakable. "This is a very, very significant moment, and it will become more and more significant," LaHaye said.