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David Brooks says today's political polarity began when the Supreme Court "suppressed that democratic abortion debate the nation needs to have. The poisons have been building ever since. You can complain about the incivility of politics, but you can't stop the escalation of conflict in the middle. You have to kill it at the root. Unless Roe v. Wade is overturned, politics will never get better."

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Justice Sunday:

• Battle over benches spills across pews | Evangelical leaders use a simulcast to churches around the country to support conservative judges. Other groups fear a 'religious war.' (Los Angeles Times)
• Christian conservatives take aim at filibusters | Conservatives across America were urged to pressure senators to end the use of filibusters against President Bush's judicial nominees in an appeal made on Christian radio and television networks on Sunday. (Reuters)
• Frist hardens effort to stop filibusters | Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday it was not ''radical'' to ask senators to vote on judicial nominees as he hardened his effort to strip Democrats of their power to stall President Bush's picks for the federal court. (Associated Press)
• A high-tech lynching in prime time | Tonight is the much-awaited "Justice Sunday," the judge-bashing rally being disseminated nationwide by cable, satellite and Internet from a megachurch in Louisville. (Frank Rich, The New York Times)
• US Christian conservatives take aim at filibusters | Conservatives across America were urged to pressure U.S. senators to end the use of filibusters against President Bush's judicial nominees in an appeal made on Christian radio and television networks on Sunday. (Reuters)
• Cheney backs end of filibustering | Vice President Dick Cheney plunged the White House into the judicial confirmation battle on Friday by saying he supported changing the Senate rules to stop the Democrats from blocking judicial nominees and would, if needed, provide the tie-breaking vote. (The New York Times)
• . . . Smearing Christian judges | People calling themselves Christians are gathering once again for a crusade against what they consider to be the secular humanist subversion of Christian values. This time the object of their wrath is the judiciary. In the wake of the fanatical and fruitless assaults against the judicial system for letting Terri Schiavo die, the Family Research Council will convene tomorrow what it calls "Justice Sunday," a live simulcast to pit Christian values against "our out-of-control courts." (Paul Gaston, Washington Post)
• Hijacking Christianity . . . | The American flag was appropriated by the political right wing years ago. Now the Christian right is trying to hijack religion. This tim e it shouldn't be allowed to happen without a fight. (Colbert I. King, Washington Post)
• Critics: Frist mingling religion, politics | It may seem like Sen. Bill Frist has found religion in recent weeks. At least, that's what critics say about the Senate majority leader's recent alignment with social conservative groups on high-profile issues. (Associated Press)
• Frist urges end to nominee filibusters | Democrats decry speech at church rally (Washington Post)

Minority students threatened at Trinity International University:

• Christian college secludes students after hate letters | Scores of African-American and Hispanic students at a small Evangelical Christian college here missed classes and were set to spend a second night in seclusion on Friday, after a series of threatening racist letters spurred their evacuation from the campus. (The New York Times)

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