Language can create a feeling of safety in our world or a feeling of danger. In the current debate about the Senate filibuster over judicial nominees, some of the language sounds dangerous. One example from the Focus on the Family website suggests sending this messgage to Republican senators who have not declared their opposition to the filibuster:

Many of those who put you in power care passionately about the unborn child, about marriage, about the evil of cloning, and about religious liberty. The liberal judiciary threatens our beliefs about every one of these issues. You have been made the majority in the House, in the Senate, and a Republican occupies the White House. Together they represent the coveted "Triple Crown" of American politics. If you fritter away the responsibility to reform the courts, and if you ignore the "values" that motivated those who supported you at the polls, you do not deserve the trust given to you. It’s time to fish or cut bait.

Whatever our position may be on the unborn or cloning, for instance, this threatening language does not help create a safe place for everyone to work and to govern our nation.

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