Religious Dangers

Yesterday I sent a letter to the editor stating how unhappy I am about the religious reasons in the president's choice of Harriet Miers to serve on the Supreme Court. Seems I have good reason to feel this way. Here are some quotes today from the Washington Post on this very subject:

Family Research Council leader James Dobson, a major figure in the religious conservative movement said that Karl Rove had informed him in advance of the choice of Miers and assured him, in his words, that "Harriet Miers is an Evangelical Christian, that she is from a very conservative church, which is almost universally pro-life, that she had taken on the American Bar Association on the issue of abortion and fought for a policy that would not be supportive of abortion, that she had been a member of the Texas Right to Life."
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said earlier today that Rove was only "reaching out" to presumed conservative supporters skeptical about her nomination to the court to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Dobson's comments, and now the president's, come amid growing anger among conservative intellectuals about the Miers appointment and about the appropriateness of religion being a factor in Supreme Court nominations.

And:

"People are interested to know why I picked Harriet Miers," Bush said. "They want to know Harriet Miers's background. They want to know as much as they possibly can before they form opinions. Part of Harriet Miers life is her religion," he said,

Words like this only worry me more about freedom of religion in this country.