The “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith” conference, the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration, and Christian Reconstructionism, oh my! Salon’s Michelle Goldberg writes about last week’s “Remedies to Judicial Tyranny” conference in Washington D.C., wherein 200 or so religious right figures and conservative politicians discussed the means of “reining in” a judiciary “run amuk,” from an assertion of Congressional authority, to a mass court purge of all but the rightest of right-wing judges, and from a prayer that Satan take possession of Judge George Greer’s soul, to the veiled murder threats against Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy that, as The Washington Post reported Saturday, drew inspiration from the book of Stalin: “No man, no problem.” As Goldberg reports it, though the conference drew a small crowd, the gang was all there: from old heavyweights like Jerry Falwell, Phyllis Schlafly, and representatives from Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council, to rising religious right pop stars like Judge Roy “Ten Commandments” Moore and attorney to the parents of Terri Schiavo, David Gibbs. Even Tom DeLay interrupted his attendence at the pope’s funeral to video-phone in a opening statement calling for Justice’s head. With so many contending, righteous egos, who was steering this ship? According to Goldberg, the driving agenda was Christian Reconstructionism, a Calvinist doctrine of harsh biblical law enforced at the county level in a radically decentralized government, founded by R.J. Rushdoony and espoused by several speakers at the conference. Though Goldberg tips her hand frequently with words like “lunacy” and allusions to the alternate realities inhabited by these people, and places her shocked emphasis on the Sharia-like extremes of Christian Reconstructionism — a capital punishment option for homosexuals, abortionists and fornicators — beneath her open bias is a serious report about a movement as decentralized and punishment-minded as the ideal it agitates for.