The good news is, lots of good guys were speaking at the Confronting the Judicial War on Faith conference. We need more people to lend their ears to people like Judge Roy Moore, Herb Titus and Howard Phillips.

The bad news is, the event was another bow to inter-faith ecumenism. The invocation was given by a rabbi. Representatives from Joyce Meyer’s “ministry” were high-profile (yes, I classify her ministry as preaching another faith). But feminism made a prominent appearance with not only Joyce Meyer’s “ministry” being showcased, but that of “minister” Alveda C. King, daughter of MLK, Jr., whose bona fides are highly suspect and whose peccadilloes are swept under the rug by his admirers and those who don’t want to be branded with the “R” word.

I know there are two schools of thought about the need to “reach across the aisle” to accomplish our goals, but after admonishing Christians not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, Paul asks, “What fellowship has light with darkness?” I shudder more over travesties like the ecumenical worship spectacle in the National Cathedral after 9/11 than I do about a conference where mutual political goals are being discussed, but I wonder if these attempts at unity in the political realm are only going to nudge God out in the spirit of pragmatism. The message keeps getting so watered down that we will soon be swallowing political homeopathy pills, where nothing of the original substance can be found in our policies.

It sounds like the good guys (our team, for those keeping score) conducted themselves admirably, but I note that Michael Farris keeps showing up in the halls of power, and it seems that Patrick Henry College and HSLDA have been getting wimpy as they’ve been getting noticed more by the reigning party.

Heaven forbid that we should “reign” on anyone’s “party,” but again, let’s remember, that God’s kingdom is the political party to which we owe allegiance, and his agenda brooks no compromise.