Clergy To Consecrate Senate Alito Hearing Room

At 1:00 this afternoon, the Christian Defense Coalition and National Clergy Council will hold a service in the Hart Senate Office Building to consecrate the hearing room where confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito will be held. In reporting on the planned event, the Christian Wire Service yesterday quoted Rev. Rob Schenck, President of the National Clergy Council: "The act of consecrating a special place for sacred use has a long and Biblical history to it. In setting apart the Senate hearing room for God's purpose, we will ask for His will to be done in all that is said by the senators and Judge Alito. We are praying that both parties be faithful to the Constitution, honest in their exchange and devoted to the truth. As to the outcome, we pray only that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven."