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Anybody heard about Pat Robertson's statements on ABC's "This Week" Sunday morning? Excerpt here is from a longer article about the Repubs relationship with the Christian right.

Whereas the president insisted that his bid to fill the bench with more right-leaning judges should not be viewed as a religious crusade ("I view religion as a personal matter"), the veteran religious right leader insisted that the overhaul of the judiciary was indeed a religious crusade.

Acknowledging several passages from his new book - where he charged that liberals were engaging in "an all-out assault on Christianity," and that Democrats wanted to appoint judges who would "dismantle our Christian culture" - 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."

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Anybody heard about Pat Robertson's statements on ABC's "This Week" Sunday morning? Excerpt here is from a longer article about the Repubs relationship with the Christian right.

Whereas the president insisted that his bid to fill the bench with more right-leaning judges should not be viewed as a religious crusade ("I view religion as a personal matter"), the veteran religious right leader insisted that the overhaul of the judiciary was indeed a religious crusade.

Acknowledging several passages from his new book - where he charged that liberals were engaging in "an all-out assault on Christianity," and that Democrats wanted to appoint judges who would "dismantle our Christian culture" - 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."