Justice Sunday: Relilgion and Politics

Foes attack event as intolerant:

More than 700 people joined religious leaders and Democratic politicians at two rallies yesterday to denounce Christian conservatives' use of a Louisville church as a platform to advocate prohibiting filibusters against judicial nominees.
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The larger of the two rallies, designed to counter a telecast from Highview Baptist Church last night, took place at Central Presbyterian Church near downtown Louisville. More than 600 people came to hear Baptist, Episcopal, Jewish and ecumenical leaders from around the country criticize what they described as an effort to paint dissidents as anti-religion.
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At the rally at Central Presbyterian, the Rev. Jim Wallis of the United Church of Christ, who wrote the book "God's Politics" and is editor of the Sojourners Christian-ministry magazine, urged like-minded congregations to "wake up" to what he called a Republican-led "religious war" intended to usher in a "theocracy."

The "religious right," Wallis said, has tried to "steal our faith" and turn it on its head.