The conservative Judicial Confirmation Network is running this ad in Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Like a video released a few weeks ago by the conservative Catholic group Fidelis, the ad tells voters that there are more important concerns than the economy. The difference between now and 2004 is that cultural conservatives appear to be much less receptive to that message due to their economic woes. That's a big part of the reason that white Catholics who attend church weekly are now evenly split between John McCain and Barack Obama.
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I have to tell you listening to this commercial was pretty puke-making.
Hearing that voice say that among "the things we stand for" are: "equality", liberty", and "inalienable rights", yet this political/religious action committee wants to take those very things away from gay Americans.
The Constitution (the one you HAVE, not the one McCain/Palin/Hucklebee/Bush wants to change it to) used to guarantee that all citizens would be treated equally before the law. This "judicial network" makes a mockery of these precious treasures.
It use to guarantee those "inalienable rights" included both the right to liberty and also the pursuit of happiness.
Yet this group wants to deny gay people the right to pursue their happiness, their liberty.
No, gay marriage is not a "right" under the Constitution, but then again, neither is heterosexual marriage. Speak to me about the freedom to marry the person we love.
This group wants to stack the Courts with activist judges who would choose to deny us those freedoms. Sweet land o' liberty my ass.
I remember when Courts concerned themselves with what was JUST, not with what was merely popular with the radical, restrictive, 'religious' 'right'. Sad what has happened to America under BushRoveCheney.
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