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Blogger Matt Szabo warns that while we were out enjoying Pride this week, the religious right was preparing to put the gays in the cross-hairs of the battle for the next Supreme Court Justice:

The Supreme Court’s mealy-mouthed ruling today that public displays of the Ten Commandments are sometimes OK and sometimes not OK is sure to ignite an urgency within the Religious Right that could only rival the “evil threat” of same-sex marriage – and probably dooms the chance that President Bush will nominate a relative-moderate like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to replace (likely) outgoing Chief Justice William Rehnquist or wanting-to-retire Justice Sandra Day O’Conner.

At their websites, the TVC routes all links to a fundraising page, and the FRC shamelessly uses the High Court’s ruling as an opportunity to hock Ten Commandments book covers. The Right will use this issue to arm its war chest, and then release a relentless assault on the President Bush and the Senate if and when a sitting justice retires.

Of course, even the pragmatic middle was not able to hold off lower-court nominations, such as William Pryor, so let’s hope Matt is wrong.

BRACE YOURSELVES: Supreme Court’s Kerryesque Ruling on Ten Commandments Sure to Release Religious Right’s Fury [MattSzabo.com]