Tuesday, February 27, 2007
His clients are "devout Judeo-Christians" averred the attorney -- orally and in filings here (first page, Introduction) and here (page 1, Statement). No one laughed out loud, but during the hearing I put a an index finger and thumb to my chin and saw puzzled glances elsewhere in the courtroom.
http://massresistance.com/docs/parker_lawsuit/complaint.htmlThis not only appeared repeatedly in the Mad Dad case in federal court. This specious and oxymoronic epithet turns out to have been brought back from a well-deserved death several times. Today, like a golem, it is serving its extremist masters politically.
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2007/02/mad-dad-quirk-of-court.htmlYou don't need to look very far on the Net or in a library to get your fill of Judeo-Christian values, Judeo-Christians, and Judeo-Christian worldview. Its coinage and usage have been as first a propaganda device and more recently as a political/public-relations gimmick. Today, it really is camouflaged code for increased theocracy disguised as merely wanting to maintain positive moral teaching.
Most citations are on right-wing Websites and many of these include calls for theocratic political aims. A few are way out there. There are Judeo-Christian tattoo sites
http://www.religioustattoos.net/ (the one above taken from one)
...dating connections, jewelry selections, and a health center.
http://www.judeochristianhealthclinic.org/ The most bizarre take on the term surely has to be from a Ku Klux Klan site.
http://www.wckkkk.com/identity.htmlWhile many racists seem to like the phrase, this group goes beyond disdaining Judeo-Christian. They deny that the Ahrahamic patriarchs -- and even Jesus -- were Jewish (that would be lowercase on their site).
Curiouser and curiouser...
http://www.sabian.org/alicech2.htmMore:
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2007/02/unicorns-and-judeo-christians.html