Jay Sekulow: Making his case for conservatives (an FYI)

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found this at the Virginian Pilot online (front page news in Norfolk-Virginia Beach) ... "ACLJ"

Profile: Making his case for conservatives
By STEVEN G. VEGH, The Virginian-Pilot
© November 1, 2003
Last updated: 12:07 AM

Jay Sekulow

Having lost past battles over school prayer and abortion, evangelicals are now seething over recent rulings that plucked God from the Pledge of Allegiance, spurned the Ten Commandments and decriminalized sodomy.

An “oligarchy” of leftist judges ''is determined to make all of us dance to their music,’’ James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, complained at a rally for the Ten Commandments in August. And Pat Robertson, the Virginia Beach-based religious broadcaster, made headlines in July when he declared that the U.S. Supreme Court ''is bringing upon this nation the wrath of God.’’

Yet at the American Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit law firm Robertson founded in 1990, chief counsel Jay Sekulow is preparing to dance with the devil.

On Dec. 2, he will argue before the Supreme Court in Locke v. Davey It will be the 11th time that the 47-year-old attorney has presented a case before the same court that is reviled by Robertson, who remains president of the ACLJ.

Given Sekulow’s willingness to work within the system and concede the court’s authority, it might seem that he has broken ranks with his fellow conservative Christians. He refrains from joining verbal attacks on the judiciary, because such behavior would not befit a lawyer.

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Raised in a Reform Jewish family in Atlanta, he attended Mercer University in Georgia in the ’70s, where he was “born again” as a Christian. At the time, the Jesus Movement was sweeping through college campuses and had caught up many of Sekulow’s friends.

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[Michael Harrington]

1. I cringe whenever I see this fool.

I can still remember when he used to be a regular on Robertson's 700 Club. He may have passed the Bar, but I still refuse to take him particularly seriously. He had his ass handed to him by Barry Lynn the other night on Dobb's show.

I love it when he gets started yapping about this non-existent "Judeo-Christian tradition" that the Founders (many of whom were Deists, as I'm sure you folks already know) used as a foundation for the nation.

Yeah, right.