By the way, McGrath, just to give you an idea just how far these people intend to go with this extremist religious agenda, Tom DeLay, who "murdered" his own mother in the same way he is accusing Terri Schiavo's husband of "murdering" his wife, has said that the judiciary (by virtue of having ruled as it has consistantly, both "conservative" as well as "liberal" judges) is out of control, a runaway judiciary, and it will have to be punished for it, and brought into line with the agenda of the religious right in this country.

The judiciary is supposed to be independent. The fact that the "conservative" judges ruled consistently in agreement with the more "liberal" judges supports the idea that in this case, the judiciary did, indeed, act independently. Tom DeLay and his fundamentalist buddies don't want an independent judiciary. They want a judiciary that will do their bidding, whatever that might be. If you think the US has been out of line on human rights issues up to now, you just wait and see how appallingly bad they will get if the religious right in the US has complete control of the judiciary. And make no mistake... that is exactly what they intend to have happen.