In Alabama judges on the assenting and dissenting sides both quoted from the Bible to support their decision.

It was a child custody case. The decision against the father quotes Psalms 127:3-5, that children are a gift from God, but they come with responsibilities.

The lone dissenting decision cited Romans 13:1-2, which says "there is no authority except from God." Parkker wrote that God, not the state, has given parents the rights and responsibilities to raise their children.

He said "courts should interfere as little as possible with parental decision-making, instead deferring to parental authority whenever it has not been fundamentally compromised by substantial neglect, wrongdoing or criminal act."

Are these judges crazy?

Crooks in High Places

There's Rove-gate and the new energy bill that just passed Congress with a little $1.5 billion gift to Sugarland, Texas, home of Tom Delay. There's CAFTA, where Representatives were just bought off to give huge tax savings to oil companies even though these companies are posting the largest profits in their history. This administration is utterly corrupt. Then there was passing the NRA bill so that gun manufacturers can't be held liable for their weapons. None of the Democratic admendments were in the bill: like prohibiting hollow point bullets or redoing the assault weapon ban. Democrats are the voice of reason and Republicans are the power of corruption. I don't see how any Republican can look at what is happening and think they should remain Republican.

My brother- and sister-in-law from Texas said that the redistricting in Texas that was the scandal of the whole nation, was just done because some districts had become too big. They knew the Republicans had done wrong, and just refused to admit it.

Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson told Democrats that President Bush is jeopardizing national security by not firing Karl Rove for his role in leaking the identify of a CIA officer. He said that leaks hamper efforst to recruit informants in the war on terror.

Instead of a president concerned first and foremost with protecting this country and the intelligence officers who serve it, we are confronted with a prsident who is willing to sit by while political operatives savage the reputations of good Americans like Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson.