COUPWATCH: Ashcroft & Anti-Semitism (tags)
January 16, 2001 Ashcroft & Anti-Semitism When John Ashcroft addressed an audience at Bob Jones University on May 8, 1999, the man who is now George W. Bush's nominee to be attorney general cited - and exaggerated - a passage from the Book of John that has contributed to the persecution of Jews for the past two millennia.
COUP WATCH: John Ashcroft's speech at Bob Jones University -- From Red Rock Eat (tags)
When the Constitution was written, religious conservatives opposed it because, as everyone perfectly well understood, it did not create a Christian nation. Their arguments sound more or less identical to the arguments that their descendants make today, as for example in John Ashcroft's speech at Bob Jones University, enclosed.