Conference Report

The first couple of hours of the Confronting the Judicial War on Faith Conference were televised on C-SPAN Thursday, and are archived (for a week or two) here (Real Player required).

And making certain my eventual audit after Hillary Clinton is elected president, my frightening visage can be found at 48 minutes and 55 seconds into the broadcast with the Grand Dame of conservatism, Phyllis Schlafly, over my right shoulder.

The high point of the conference, for me, was the Thursday night dinner when David Gibbs III, the attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents, described his first meeting with Terri, in which he found her "200 times" more responsive and aware than he had expected from watching the videos of her. Gibbs described her attempts to communicate, her noticable reactions to certain people, and even her sense of humor. He also described her skeletal appearance, shallow breathing (towards the end, Terri was literally panting like dog on a hot day) and black, sunken eyes at a time when death lawyer George Felos was out before the TV cameras describing her death throes as "beautiful."

Immediately after, the assembled group (which included former Constitution Party presidential candidate Michael Peroutka, Judge Roy Moore, William J. Federer, Herb Titus, Rev. Peter Marshall, and scores of others) got on our knees to pray that God would grant this nation repentence, and to ask Him to forgive the Church for letting things get to this point.