Byron Dorgan: Theocrat? By Mark D. Tooley

The Religious Left is claiming to have killed – at least momentarily - the proposed Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW), a program that would update the aging U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Having organized a letter from 50 left-leaning clerics in North Dakota, the Religious Left is claiming credit for having persuaded Senator Byron Dorgan, who chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, to omit funding for RRW in 2008.

“Two dozen North Dakota United Methodist Church (UMC) clergy, including Bishop Deborah Kiesey, helped lead the effort to block the Bush administration’s plan to build a new generation of nuclear weapons,” boasted a release from the United Methodist lobby office in Washington, D.C. “Ending this nuclear warhead program is a major victory for disarmament advocates across the world.”

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