Monday, November 07, 2005 GOP Crt Agenda: Legislate Culture from the Bench PowerofNarrativeBlog: "For yrs, a lawyer for the Thomas More Law Cntr in Mich visited school boards around the country searching for 1 willing to challenge evolution by teaching intelligent design, and to face a risky, high-profile trial. (Thomas More Cntr is a nonprofit law firm founded by 2 uber conservative Catholics -1 the magnate of Domino's pizza, the other a former prosecutor- who until then had focused on the defense of anti-abortion advocates, gay-rts opponents and the display of Christian symbols like crosses and Nativity scenes on govt property.) But Richard Thompson, the former prosecutor who is pres and chief counsel of the Thomas More Cntr, says its role is to use the crts "to change the culture" - and it well could depending on the outcome of the test case it finally found." So much for all of that GOPer MYTHICAL spew about "radical liberal judges are legislating from the bench", eh? |