Salazar's 'Antichrist' flap spotlights judicial battle
[excerpted from the Washington Times]photo, NBC
The Antichrist has long been understood in Christianity as the human agent who will rise up against Christ and bring about the end of the world. Less clear is his position on President Bush's judicial appointments.
Even so, there was Sen. Ken Salazar, Colorado Democrat, now embroiled in a public spat with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson over judicial nominees, describing the Christian group as 'the Antichrist.'
'From my point of view, they are the Antichrist of the world,' Mr. Salazar said in an interview Tuesday with KKTV-TV in Colorado Springs. The remark, which Mr. Salazar later retracted, comes at the apex of a feud between the first-term Democrat and the powerful evangelical Christian organization over the group's campaign to pressure Senate Democrats into allowing a floor vote on Mr. Bush's judicial nominees. "
[continued at Washington Times]
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