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D A I L Y  R E A S O N  T O
D I S P A T C H  B U S H .

On Tuesday the Senate confirmed Bush judicial nominee J. Leon Holmes to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in a 51-46 vote.

Holmes has written that abortion is akin to the holocaust. He also said that concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami.

In an article he co-authored with his wife, he said a wife has an obligation "to subordinate herself to her husband" and "to place herself under the authority of the man."

Holmes' judgeship is a lifetime position.

(Source: www.chicagotribune.com, Chicago Tribune Online Edition, July 7, 2004. Neil A. Lewis, "Senate OKs Bush judicial pick: 3 Republican women vote 'no' in fierce debate," Chicago Tribune Online Edition, July 7, 2004. www.pfaw.org, People For the Am.)

Some traditions are bad, you know.  Just because "we've always done it this way", or yes, even "Because Gods says" are used to justify societal norms does not make it right. 

I am not a Christian.  I refuse to have Christians make laws based on Christian doctrine rather than rational thought to rule me.