New Democrat / Ex-Republican

2004: a vote for the next Supreme Court

Your vote will determine whether we continue to lose our freedoms and stop the erosion of our rights. We face the prospect of the most socially conservative court ever.

Issues at risk:

Organized prayer in school. (Bush strongly supports)

A woman's right to choose. (Bush strongly opposes)

Constitutional Gay marriage ban (Bush strongly supports)

Commandments in Fed Buildings (Bush strongly supports)

Federal funding of religious charities (Bush strongly supports)

Supreme court justices are appointed for life.

I usually vote for the candidate  with strong conservative economic veiws -- and that puts me squarely in republican territory. With Bush senior it was the economy stupid. With Junior, I fear the long term impact of his social programs, more.

If you are a Republican like me and have over looked Bush's conservative social agenda in favor of economic issues, think again.  

The president has little impact on the overall economy, but will put into play decades of archaic, conservative social programs. How? By appointing one, two, three or more supreme court justices and any number of federal judges.

In 10 years, your children or grand kids could be forced to pray in public school.  We could loose many other rights, too.

So if you've ever looked the other way like I have when it comes to the religious right's agenda, don't do it this year.

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