Coming White House Action?

In Curbing Abuses of the Judicial Oligarchy, Wes Vernon quotes Janice Shaw Crouse, a Ph.D. and Senior Fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute of Concerned Women for America. Wes writes,

...based on her conversations with "people at the White House," she was convinced they are very committed to "a pro-life agenda," and she believed that "within a few months, we're going to see some changes – that those changes will be to our [values voters'] benefit [hopefully to deal with] activist judges. (emphasis added)

Has the sleeping giant been awakened? We can hope...

Hugh Hewitt on Judicial Imperialism

"Widespread anger over increasingly imperial courts is fueling demands for political action to check this very un-American trend toward unchecked judicial authority." More from this very good article here.

Stunned

I'm sure I am not alone in my feelings: shock, disbelief, anger, grief, helplessness. As the legal battle over Terri's life has waged this past week, these emotions have come and gone at different times and in different measures. Today, however, I am overcome with the news about Judge Greer's latest decree.

How can this man be so hard-hearted to refuse to even hear evidence that Terri might want to live? How can the higher courts so callously reject multiple appeals? Are the FDLE officers cowards? What is wrong with our government that causes a county judge to dictate the actions of the state's chief executive? What gives the judiciary the authority to execute a disabled woman?

I'm not trying to ask any new questions here; we're all making these same queries. I just can't believe this is happening in our beloved America.

Starting Out

In starting this blog today, I feel like I have come late to a birthday party - you know, after the cake has been cut, most of the presents have been opened and the earliest-arriving guests are starting to leave. (Of course, this analogy severely breaks down in that the events of this past week have been anything but festive.) Terri Schiavo's cause has been taken up by so many in the blogosphere and for so long that I have wondered, is there any more to add?

Although I have vascilated on this point, I am driven to write because of the blood that still cries out from the ground. Millions of dead unborn babies and thousands of euthanised others - infants, elderly adults, the handicapped, Terri - have no voice except for those who will speak and pray with conviction and authority that the injustice must end! I am carrying Terri's burden in my heart not only for her sake, but for the sake of all those she represents - unwanted human beings that have been declared worthless by their families and by legislators and who are unable to plead their own cause. I cannot call myself a lover of Jesus and apathetically stand by while thousands are murdered for the sake of convenience. At the very least, I must stand in both the court of heaven and the plaza of earth, joining my voice to those of my comrades saying, "Let them live!"

My only prayer is that my God will make powerful these weak words and that through my intercession and my writing, the blanket of evil that is upon us will be thrust back and that the glorious righteousness of the King of Kings will be established in our America and in the world. It is for His glory alone that I write.