Note to the ethically challenged: It's called theft

Unfortunately, a prominent "values" group has today demonstrated that their sense of morality has definite limitations.  

People for the American Way has set up a toll-free number that connects directly to the Senate switchboard for its email list members to use to call their Senators and ask their Senators to reject the nuclear option.  They sent the email out this morning.  

This afternoon, Focus on the Family sent an alert to its email list asking its members to use PFAW's toll-free number to call their Senators and ask them to support the nuclear option.  Isn't that special?  

(text of FoF's email below the fold)

Place a Free Phone Call to Your Senators about Judicial
Filibusters

You have a unique opportunity today to make sure your U.S.
senators get an accurate read on public sentiment over the
continued filibustering of President Bush's judicial
nominees.

A left-wing pressure group leading the charge to justify
Democrats' abuse of filibusters to block conservative
court nominees is asking its supporters to flood
Washington with pro-filibuster phone calls today and
Thursday. The group, People for the American Way, has even
set up a special toll-free phone number that rings right
to the Capitol switchboard -- but it's only good through
the end of the day Thursday.

The number is 1-866-808-0065 -- and we encourage you to
use it to give your senators the other side of the story.
Simply dial and ask to be transferred to your senators'
offices; you'll have to call twice, to reach both of them,
and it may take a while for the call to connect or for
someone to answer. After you're connected to your
senator's office, explain that you support a return to the
constitutional tradition of 51 votes being sufficient to
confirm a judicial nominee, not the unprecedented 60 votes
required to break a filibuster.

The short version of that message: I support the
"constitutional option" to end judicial filibusters.

This is, without a doubt, unethical.  It may be legal, but it is still to my mind theft.  Why?  Because they are using an someone else's resources for a purpose that entity has not and would never have authorized.  Theft.

So now we know why Dr. Dobson and his ilk want the ten commandments posted.  They can't remember what the document says.