Ethics

Jonathan Falwell Continues Daddy's Work

By Ed Brayton

Jerry Falwell is dead but Jonathan Falwell has stepped right into his father's jackboots and continued his Worldnutdaily column and his penchant for distorting history. In his latest column, Falwell criticizes Obama's first judicial nominee, David Hamilton to the 7th circuit court of appeals, as "anti-Jesus" because he wrote a ruling striking down sectarian prayers in the Indiana legislature.

As noted by Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, Judge Hamilton is "the infamous activist judge who in 2005 ordered the speaker of the Indiana House to immediately stop the practice of 'sectarian prayers' at the opening of the legislative session. Apparently the prayers were too Christian for Mr. Hamilton."

Judge Hamilton ruled, "[T]hey should refrain from using Christ's name or title."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).