Pat Robertson - judges bigger threat than terrorists, Nazis, slavery

KRT Wire | 05/01/2005 | Pat Robertson continues religion-based attacks on judiciary, Democrats:

"Robertson told ABC that the federal judiciary, as currently constituted, represents the biggest threat to America in its history. He warned: 'They're destroying the fabric that holds our nation together.'

His interviewer, George Stephanopolous, asked whether Robertson was saying that the threat posed by federal judges was more dire than the Civil War, World War II, and the terrorists who struck on Sept. 11. Robertson replied: 'I really believe that. ... I think that the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.'

Maybe the differences between the GOP and the religious right are merely stylistic. But it's significant that the Christian leaders' continued willingness to assail the judiciary in apocalyptic religious overtones doesn't mesh with the more measured language of the Republican leadership."