In SCOTUS Confirmation Fight, Expect Democrats To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry

[Doc7505]

In SCOTUS Confirmation Fight, Expect Democrats To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Bigotry against Catholics is nothing new in America. What’s new is Democrats’ wholesale embrace of it, which we might see play out in primetime. ​

In SCOTUS Confirmation, Expect Dems To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry

Bigotry against Catholics is nothing new in America. What’s new is Democrats’ wholesale embrace of it, which we might see play out in primetime.

thefederalist.com

22 Sep 2020 ~ By John Daniel Davidson

President Trump is expected to pick a Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as early as the end of this week. Two of the people on Trump’s short list of possible nominees are Catholic women: Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate court judge in Chicago, and Barbara Lagoa, a federal appellate court judge in Atlanta.
If either of these eminently qualified judges gets the nomination, expect the media to go full-throttle with anti-Catholic bigotry. And expect Democrats to outdo the media in this regard, which is no easy task.
The media has wasted no time casting aspersions on Barrett for her Catholic faith. On Monday, the Washington Post ran a kind of explainer on Barrett, which included an out-of-context quote from a talk she apparently gave years ago, that a “legal career is but a means to an end… and that end is building the Kingdom of God.”
The statement itself, even without context, is an altogether ordinary expression of sincere religious belief that any devout person, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or Muslim, would readily affirm. Yet the Post’s Ron Charles highlighted it in a tweet Monday, as if to warn us that Barrett might try to usher in a Catholic theocracy if she gets onto the Supreme Court.
Also Monday, Newsweek published a somewhat hysterical piece about how Barrett is affiliated with a Christian religious group, People of Praise, that served as the inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale”—as if Barrett, a woman on the president’s short list for the Supreme Court, somehow exemplifies the oppression of women by a religious patriarchy. (Update: Newsweek posted a correction to this piece Tuesday, saying Margaret Atwood never mentioned People of Praise as an inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which calls into question the entire point of the article. The social media headline, however, remains unchanged.)
Elected Democrats have been even more frank about their antipathy towards Catholics, even to the point of appearing to support an anti-Catholic religious test for nominees to the federal bench. It was during Barrett’s 2017 confirmation to the federal appellate court that Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein admitted openly that the judge’s Catholic faith was a problem for her, infamously telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
During those same confirmation hearings, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin grilled Barrett on her faith, suggesting there’s something nefarious about being an “orthodox Catholic” and asking her, “Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?” She replied, “I am a Catholic, Senator Durbin.”
~[snip]~
Anti-Catholic Bigotry Is a Very Old Problem in America
For years now, leftists in the media have been wondering out loud if there are too many Catholics on the court, implying over and over again that Catholics are less likely to serve the public interest than any other group. We saw it after the Hobby Lobby ruling in 2014, we’ve seen it with Trump’s appointments to the federal appellate court, and we’ll almost certainly see a very ugly and open version of it if he nominates Barrett or Lagoa.
All of this is just the latest iteration of an old problem in America. Through much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Catholics were suspected of dual loyalties at best, at worst loyalty to Rome. They were shunned, maligned, and discriminated against by the Protestant mainstream in various ways, perhaps most infamously by the so-called Blaine Amendments in the 1880s, which barred state funds for Catholic schools.
~[snip]~
While anti-Catholic attitudes might have softened over the last 60 years—John F. Kennedy, Jr., didn’t face nearly the same hostility for being a Catholic in 1960 that New York Gov. Al Smith did as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928—they have not gone away. Among the leftists who now control the Democratic Party, they have become quietly commonplace.
Today, being anti-Catholic is one of the last acceptable prejudices in polite liberal society, and if Trump nominates a Catholic to the Supreme Court, we’re going to see its ugliness on full display once again.


Comment:
Meanwhile their hypocisy will be at their height because their presidential candidate is also "Catholic".
Also, can we recollect when the hag Pelosi invoked religious obligation last fall during the impeachment? I seem to remember lots of talk of sacred duties. But then duplicity never seems to bother the left.
Read:

Nancy Pelosi 'Invokes God' as She Raises Articles of Impeachment - 21st Century Wire

21WIRE | Experts believe that the Democrats' case is so poor that it will simply die the Senate.

21stcenturywire.com

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Maddow: As A Catholic, Pelosi Invoking Her Faith At Apex Of Confrontation Was "Heart Stopping"

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow expresses how emotional she was when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invoked her Catholic faith in an argument with journalist James Rosen at a Thursday press conference. "It was sort of an indelible moment," Maddow said. "And I will say as a Catholic, seeing her invoke her...

www.realclearpolitics.com

!

To the DNC, Pelosi and China Joe, the Trump choices of Barrett or Lagoa are the wrong type of Catholics.
A good example of what will be happening is the following hilarious call left on yesterday to the "Howie Carr Show's Chump Line":
"Hello,Police...I'd like to report that I was tortured and raped by whoever Trump nominates for the Supreme Court".

 

[Polishprince]

Its interesting how the Democrats are using anti-Catholicism as a strategy this year, particularly when the nominee is Catholic. Seems like they want it both ways

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Worked with Brett Kavanaugh....right?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Do the Catholics need seven of nine seats on SCOTUS?

 

[JustAGuy1]

"Need" is much like the "popular vote", it is immaterial.

 

[theHawk]

Do the Catholics need seven of nine seats on SCOTUS?

Agreed, we need more Protestants.

 

[Coyote]

Being concerned about the role religion plays in her decisions is not "anti-catholic" bigotry. As I recall, there was a lot of talk on Sotemyer and how her heritage as a hispanic woman would influence her decisions. To automatically presume anti-catholic bigotry is putting the horse before the cart and pretty disengenius.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The principals of six GOP evangelical senators are trying to get a consensus to tell Trump their senators cannot vote for another RC on the Bench,

 

[jackflash]

In SCOTUS Confirmation Fight, Expect Democrats To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Bigotry against Catholics is nothing new in America. What’s new is Democrats’ wholesale embrace of it, which we might see play out in primetime. ​

In SCOTUS Confirmation, Expect Dems To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry

Bigotry against Catholics is nothing new in America. What’s new is Democrats’ wholesale embrace of it, which we might see play out in primetime.

thefederalist.com

22 Sep 2020 ~ By John Daniel Davidson

President Trump is expected to pick a Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as early as the end of this week. Two of the people on Trump’s short list of possible nominees are Catholic women: Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate court judge in Chicago, and Barbara Lagoa, a federal appellate court judge in Atlanta.
If either of these eminently qualified judges gets the nomination, expect the media to go full-throttle with anti-Catholic bigotry. And expect Democrats to outdo the media in this regard, which is no easy task.
The media has wasted no time casting aspersions on Barrett for her Catholic faith. On Monday, the Washington Post ran a kind of explainer on Barrett, which included an out-of-context quote from a talk she apparently gave years ago, that a “legal career is but a means to an end… and that end is building the Kingdom of God.”
The statement itself, even without context, is an altogether ordinary expression of sincere religious belief that any devout person, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or Muslim, would readily affirm. Yet the Post’s Ron Charles highlighted it in a tweet Monday, as if to warn us that Barrett might try to usher in a Catholic theocracy if she gets onto the Supreme Court.
Also Monday, Newsweek published a somewhat hysterical piece about how Barrett is affiliated with a Christian religious group, People of Praise, that served as the inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale”—as if Barrett, a woman on the president’s short list for the Supreme Court, somehow exemplifies the oppression of women by a religious patriarchy. (Update: Newsweek posted a correction to this piece Tuesday, saying Margaret Atwood never mentioned People of Praise as an inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which calls into question the entire point of the article. The social media headline, however, remains unchanged.)
Elected Democrats have been even more frank about their antipathy towards Catholics, even to the point of appearing to support an anti-Catholic religious test for nominees to the federal bench. It was during Barrett’s 2017 confirmation to the federal appellate court that Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein admitted openly that the judge’s Catholic faith was a problem for her, infamously telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
During those same confirmation hearings, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin grilled Barrett on her faith, suggesting there’s something nefarious about being an “orthodox Catholic” and asking her, “Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?” She replied, “I am a Catholic, Senator Durbin.”
~[snip]~
Anti-Catholic Bigotry Is a Very Old Problem in America
For years now, leftists in the media have been wondering out loud if there are too many Catholics on the court, implying over and over again that Catholics are less likely to serve the public interest than any other group. We saw it after the Hobby Lobby ruling in 2014, we’ve seen it with Trump’s appointments to the federal appellate court, and we’ll almost certainly see a very ugly and open version of it if he nominates Barrett or Lagoa.
All of this is just the latest iteration of an old problem in America. Through much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Catholics were suspected of dual loyalties at best, at worst loyalty to Rome. They were shunned, maligned, and discriminated against by the Protestant mainstream in various ways, perhaps most infamously by the so-called Blaine Amendments in the 1880s, which barred state funds for Catholic schools.
~[snip]~
While anti-Catholic attitudes might have softened over the last 60 years—John F. Kennedy, Jr., didn’t face nearly the same hostility for being a Catholic in 1960 that New York Gov. Al Smith did as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928—they have not gone away. Among the leftists who now control the Democratic Party, they have become quietly commonplace.
Today, being anti-Catholic is one of the last acceptable prejudices in polite liberal society, and if Trump nominates a Catholic to the Supreme Court, we’re going to see its ugliness on full display once again.


Comment:
Meanwhile their hypocisy will be at their height because their presidential candidate is also "Catholic".
Also, can we recollect when the hag Pelosi invoked religious obligation last fall during the impeachment? I seem to remember lots of talk of sacred duties. But then duplicity never seems to bother the left.
Read:

Nancy Pelosi 'Invokes God' as She Raises Articles of Impeachment - 21st Century Wire

21WIRE | Experts believe that the Democrats' case is so poor that it will simply die the Senate.

21stcenturywire.com

XXXXXXXXXXXX​

Maddow: As A Catholic, Pelosi Invoking Her Faith At Apex Of Confrontation Was "Heart Stopping"

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow expresses how emotional she was when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invoked her Catholic faith in an argument with journalist James Rosen at a Thursday press conference. "It was sort of an indelible moment," Maddow said. "And I will say as a Catholic, seeing her invoke her...

www.realclearpolitics.com

!

To the DNC, Pelosi and China Joe, the Trump choices of Barrett or Lagoa are the wrong type of Catholics.
A good example of what will be happening is the following hilarious call left on yesterday to the "Howie Carr Show's Chump Line":
"Hello,Police...I'd like to report that I was tortured and raped by whoever Trump nominates for the Supreme Court".

Wow! I am witnessing the statist left in full hypocricy mode! This will just add to the overall awe for the more moderate DNC constituency that just can't believe what the DNC is promoting. The DNC has become so narcissistic in it's marxist(power & control) based religion that they are alienating any & everybody that do not believe in their statist left religion of totalitarianism. While the not too distant failed quote "You can keep your exsiting medical coverage..." failed promise of prez Obama still is lingering around in folks mind$, the added fiasco of the recent DNC sponsored antifa/BLM riot$ has NO DOUBT caused an increase in the Democrat constituecies migration OUT of the DNC & its sponsored lunacy. Now, the Democratic party that has always made it known that they stand firm against discrimination, is now promoting discrimination against folks personal belief(religion) of choice. As the accompanying link stated there are verified Catholics in HIGH PLACES within the DNC organization!!! As I have stated in a previous post that short of cheating I can see prez Trump taking the popular vote at about 56%-58%. As far as the electoral college vote goes that entire DC based RepubliCratic Duopoly Party(RCDP) mess is so corrupted by lobbyi$t$/$pecial intere$t$ that nothing would surprise me from that gang.

 

[Doc7505]

The principals of six GOP evangelical senators are trying to get a consensus to tell Trump their senators cannot vote for another RC on the Bench,

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Can you show any link(s) that support your assertion?

 

[night_son]

In SCOTUS Confirmation Fight, Expect Democrats To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Bigotry against Catholics is nothing new in America. What’s new is Democrats’ wholesale embrace of it, which we might see play out in primetime. ​

In SCOTUS Confirmation, Expect Dems To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry

Bigotry against Catholics is nothing new in America. What’s new is Democrats’ wholesale embrace of it, which we might see play out in primetime.

thefederalist.com

22 Sep 2020 ~ By John Daniel Davidson

President Trump is expected to pick a Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as early as the end of this week. Two of the people on Trump’s short list of possible nominees are Catholic women: Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate court judge in Chicago, and Barbara Lagoa, a federal appellate court judge in Atlanta.
If either of these eminently qualified judges gets the nomination, expect the media to go full-throttle with anti-Catholic bigotry. And expect Democrats to outdo the media in this regard, which is no easy task.
The media has wasted no time casting aspersions on Barrett for her Catholic faith. On Monday, the Washington Post ran a kind of explainer on Barrett, which included an out-of-context quote from a talk she apparently gave years ago, that a “legal career is but a means to an end… and that end is building the Kingdom of God.”
The statement itself, even without context, is an altogether ordinary expression of sincere religious belief that any devout person, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or Muslim, would readily affirm. Yet the Post’s Ron Charles highlighted it in a tweet Monday, as if to warn us that Barrett might try to usher in a Catholic theocracy if she gets onto the Supreme Court.
Also Monday, Newsweek published a somewhat hysterical piece about how Barrett is affiliated with a Christian religious group, People of Praise, that served as the inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale”—as if Barrett, a woman on the president’s short list for the Supreme Court, somehow exemplifies the oppression of women by a religious patriarchy. (Update: Newsweek posted a correction to this piece Tuesday, saying Margaret Atwood never mentioned People of Praise as an inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which calls into question the entire point of the article. The social media headline, however, remains unchanged.)
Elected Democrats have been even more frank about their antipathy towards Catholics, even to the point of appearing to support an anti-Catholic religious test for nominees to the federal bench. It was during Barrett’s 2017 confirmation to the federal appellate court that Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein admitted openly that the judge’s Catholic faith was a problem for her, infamously telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
During those same confirmation hearings, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin grilled Barrett on her faith, suggesting there’s something nefarious about being an “orthodox Catholic” and asking her, “Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?” She replied, “I am a Catholic, Senator Durbin.”
~[snip]~
Anti-Catholic Bigotry Is a Very Old Problem in America
For years now, leftists in the media have been wondering out loud if there are too many Catholics on the court, implying over and over again that Catholics are less likely to serve the public interest than any other group. We saw it after the Hobby Lobby ruling in 2014, we’ve seen it with Trump’s appointments to the federal appellate court, and we’ll almost certainly see a very ugly and open version of it if he nominates Barrett or Lagoa.
All of this is just the latest iteration of an old problem in America. Through much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Catholics were suspected of dual loyalties at best, at worst loyalty to Rome. They were shunned, maligned, and discriminated against by the Protestant mainstream in various ways, perhaps most infamously by the so-called Blaine Amendments in the 1880s, which barred state funds for Catholic schools.
~[snip]~
While anti-Catholic attitudes might have softened over the last 60 years—John F. Kennedy, Jr., didn’t face nearly the same hostility for being a Catholic in 1960 that New York Gov. Al Smith did as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928—they have not gone away. Among the leftists who now control the Democratic Party, they have become quietly commonplace.
Today, being anti-Catholic is one of the last acceptable prejudices in polite liberal society, and if Trump nominates a Catholic to the Supreme Court, we’re going to see its ugliness on full display once again.


Comment:
Meanwhile their hypocisy will be at their height because their presidential candidate is also "Catholic".
Also, can we recollect when the hag Pelosi invoked religious obligation last fall during the impeachment? I seem to remember lots of talk of sacred duties. But then duplicity never seems to bother the left.
Read:

Nancy Pelosi 'Invokes God' as She Raises Articles of Impeachment - 21st Century Wire

21WIRE | Experts believe that the Democrats' case is so poor that it will simply die the Senate.

21stcenturywire.com

XXXXXXXXXXXX​

Maddow: As A Catholic, Pelosi Invoking Her Faith At Apex Of Confrontation Was "Heart Stopping"

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow expresses how emotional she was when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invoked her Catholic faith in an argument with journalist James Rosen at a Thursday press conference. "It was sort of an indelible moment," Maddow said. "And I will say as a Catholic, seeing her invoke her...

www.realclearpolitics.com

!

To the DNC, Pelosi and China Joe, the Trump choices of Barrett or Lagoa are the wrong type of Catholics.
A good example of what will be happening is the following hilarious call left on yesterday to the "Howie Carr Show's Chump Line":
"Hello,Police...I'd like to report that I was tortured and raped by whoever Trump nominates for the Supreme Court".

Many of them (democrats and their leaders) are straight up Satanists.

 

[Doc7505]

Being concerned about the role religion plays in her decisions is not "anti-catholic" bigotry. As I recall, there was a lot of talk on Sotemyer and how her heritage as a hispanic woman would influence her decisions. To automatically presume anti-catholic bigotry is putting the horse before the cart and pretty disengenius.

~~~~~~
Was that similar to the remarks of Sen. Feinstein?
"Elected Democrats have been even more frank about their antipathy towards Catholics, even to the point of appearing to support an anti-Catholic religious test for nominees to the federal bench. It was during Barrett’s 2017 confirmation to the federal appellate court that Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein admitted openly that the judge’s Catholic faith was a problem for her, infamously telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
True to their historial ideology going back to the post Civil War era of KKK, Democrats use their positions to physically and literally lynch blacks, Catholics and Republicans every chance they get....

 

[Coyote]

Being concerned about the role religion plays in her decisions is not "anti-catholic" bigotry. As I recall, there was a lot of talk on Sotemyer and how her heritage as a hispanic woman would influence her decisions. To automatically presume anti-catholic bigotry is putting the horse before the cart and pretty disengenius.

~~~~~~
Was that similar to the remarks of Sen. Feinstein?
"Elected Democrats have been even more frank about their antipathy towards Catholics, even to the point of appearing to support an anti-Catholic religious test for nominees to the federal bench. It was during Barrett’s 2017 confirmation to the federal appellate court that Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein admitted openly that the judge’s Catholic faith was a problem for her, infamously telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
True to their historial ideology going back to the post Civil War era of KKK, Democrats use their positions to physically and literally lynch blacks, Catholics and Republicans every chance they get....

What did she say about Scalia? Alito? Roberts? Thomas? Sotomayor?

 

[Doc7505]

Being concerned about the role religion plays in her decisions is not "anti-catholic" bigotry. As I recall, there was a lot of talk on Sotemyer and how her heritage as a hispanic woman would influence her decisions. To automatically presume anti-catholic bigotry is putting the horse before the cart and pretty disengenius.

~~~~~~
Was that similar to the remarks of Sen. Feinstein?
"Elected Democrats have been even more frank about their antipathy towards Catholics, even to the point of appearing to support an anti-Catholic religious test for nominees to the federal bench. It was during Barrett’s 2017 confirmation to the federal appellate court that Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein admitted openly that the judge’s Catholic faith was a problem for her, infamously telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
True to their historial ideology going back to the post Civil War era of KKK, Democrats use their positions to physically and literally lynch blacks, Catholics and Republicans every chance they get....

What did she say about Scalia? Alito? Roberts? Thomas? Sotomayor?

~~~~~~
If a Catholic senator had asked a Jewish nominee whether he/she would put Israel before the U.S., or if a white senator had asked a black nominee if he/she could be an objective judge given her background, liberals would be screaming bloody murder. Feinstein’s line of questioning, which was taken up by other committee Democrats, is no less an expression of prejudice.
On September 14, 2005 Sen. Feinstein asked Roberts about the "role Catholicism would play" in his tenure as a justice. Roberts declined to endorse President Kennedy's statement that "separation of church and state is absolute," telling Feinstein, "I don't know what you mean by 'absolute'." Some consider such questioning to be a revival of anti-Catholic bigotry reminiscent of the public concern about Catholic influence that presidential candidate John F. Kennedy faced in 1960, and exemplified by the controversial Blaine Amendments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/07/did-a-democratic-senator-just-accuse-a-judicial-nominee-of-being-too-christian/

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Dianne Feinstein renews her decades-long crusade against Catholic judges

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein again is coming awfully close to expressing anti-Catholic bigotry and close to imposing an unconstitutional “religious test” upon federal judges. Outrageously, several fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are following her lead. In a committee hearing...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Feinstein's Anti-Catholic Questions Are an Outrage

Democrats are usually unforgiving of religious attacks, such as the one the senator leveled on a judicial nominee last week.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[JakeStarkey]

Catholics, like anyone, has a right to explain how their religious affirmation infuses their legal philsophy,

 

[2aguy]

In SCOTUS Confirmation Fight, Expect Democrats To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Bigotry against Catholics is nothing new in America. What’s new is Democrats’ wholesale embrace of it, which we might see play out in primetime. ​

In SCOTUS Confirmation, Expect Dems To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry

Bigotry against Catholics is nothing new in America. What’s new is Democrats’ wholesale embrace of it, which we might see play out in primetime.

thefederalist.com

22 Sep 2020 ~ By John Daniel Davidson

President Trump is expected to pick a Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as early as the end of this week. Two of the people on Trump’s short list of possible nominees are Catholic women: Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate court judge in Chicago, and Barbara Lagoa, a federal appellate court judge in Atlanta.
If either of these eminently qualified judges gets the nomination, expect the media to go full-throttle with anti-Catholic bigotry. And expect Democrats to outdo the media in this regard, which is no easy task.
The media has wasted no time casting aspersions on Barrett for her Catholic faith. On Monday, the Washington Post ran a kind of explainer on Barrett, which included an out-of-context quote from a talk she apparently gave years ago, that a “legal career is but a means to an end… and that end is building the Kingdom of God.”
The statement itself, even without context, is an altogether ordinary expression of sincere religious belief that any devout person, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or Muslim, would readily affirm. Yet the Post’s Ron Charles highlighted it in a tweet Monday, as if to warn us that Barrett might try to usher in a Catholic theocracy if she gets onto the Supreme Court.
Also Monday, Newsweek published a somewhat hysterical piece about how Barrett is affiliated with a Christian religious group, People of Praise, that served as the inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale”—as if Barrett, a woman on the president’s short list for the Supreme Court, somehow exemplifies the oppression of women by a religious patriarchy. (Update: Newsweek posted a correction to this piece Tuesday, saying Margaret Atwood never mentioned People of Praise as an inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which calls into question the entire point of the article. The social media headline, however, remains unchanged.)
Elected Democrats have been even more frank about their antipathy towards Catholics, even to the point of appearing to support an anti-Catholic religious test for nominees to the federal bench. It was during Barrett’s 2017 confirmation to the federal appellate court that Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein admitted openly that the judge’s Catholic faith was a problem for her, infamously telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
During those same confirmation hearings, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin grilled Barrett on her faith, suggesting there’s something nefarious about being an “orthodox Catholic” and asking her, “Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?” She replied, “I am a Catholic, Senator Durbin.”
~[snip]~
Anti-Catholic Bigotry Is a Very Old Problem in America
For years now, leftists in the media have been wondering out loud if there are too many Catholics on the court, implying over and over again that Catholics are less likely to serve the public interest than any other group. We saw it after the Hobby Lobby ruling in 2014, we’ve seen it with Trump’s appointments to the federal appellate court, and we’ll almost certainly see a very ugly and open version of it if he nominates Barrett or Lagoa.
All of this is just the latest iteration of an old problem in America. Through much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Catholics were suspected of dual loyalties at best, at worst loyalty to Rome. They were shunned, maligned, and discriminated against by the Protestant mainstream in various ways, perhaps most infamously by the so-called Blaine Amendments in the 1880s, which barred state funds for Catholic schools.
~[snip]~
While anti-Catholic attitudes might have softened over the last 60 years—John F. Kennedy, Jr., didn’t face nearly the same hostility for being a Catholic in 1960 that New York Gov. Al Smith did as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928—they have not gone away. Among the leftists who now control the Democratic Party, they have become quietly commonplace.
Today, being anti-Catholic is one of the last acceptable prejudices in polite liberal society, and if Trump nominates a Catholic to the Supreme Court, we’re going to see its ugliness on full display once again.


Comment:
Meanwhile their hypocisy will be at their height because their presidential candidate is also "Catholic".
Also, can we recollect when the hag Pelosi invoked religious obligation last fall during the impeachment? I seem to remember lots of talk of sacred duties. But then duplicity never seems to bother the left.
Read:

Nancy Pelosi 'Invokes God' as She Raises Articles of Impeachment - 21st Century Wire

21WIRE | Experts believe that the Democrats' case is so poor that it will simply die the Senate.

21stcenturywire.com

XXXXXXXXXXXX​

Maddow: As A Catholic, Pelosi Invoking Her Faith At Apex Of Confrontation Was "Heart Stopping"

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow expresses how emotional she was when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invoked her Catholic faith in an argument with journalist James Rosen at a Thursday press conference. "It was sort of an indelible moment," Maddow said. "And I will say as a Catholic, seeing her invoke her...

www.realclearpolitics.com

!

To the DNC, Pelosi and China Joe, the Trump choices of Barrett or Lagoa are the wrong type of Catholics.
A good example of what will be happening is the following hilarious call left on yesterday to the "Howie Carr Show's Chump Line":
"Hello,Police...I'd like to report that I was tortured and raped by whoever Trump nominates for the Supreme Court".

In response....a quote from the late Andrew Breitbart...

This is for you, Kavanaugh family. Any other action than immediately filling and confirming that seat with the president’s choice is a capitulation to the terror tactics the Democrats unleashed on the Kavanaughs. It would be an admission that what they did was legitimate and can be done again. There is no other way to see it. They will have gotten away with it if we do any less. Not only does this seat need to be filled (this week preferably) but it should be done while acknowledging that our entire motivation is payback for the disgusting attempt to destroy a man purely for political reasons.

As the late Andrew Breitbart famously said, “F*ck you. War.”

And we are in a war, both a hot war on the streets of our cities nationwide and in the halls of Congress. Let’s have it out already. Take off the gloves and fight to win. If GOP senators refuse to do their jobs and vote with the president at this unprecedented and dangerous time in America then they should be labeled as traitors and dealt with accordingly. This is not a joke. Our enemy is as serious as a Molotov cocktail through your window, so you better catch up.

Do It for Brett Kavanaugh: Why the GOP MUST Seat a New Supreme Court Justice ASAP

pjmedia.com

 

[2aguy]

Catholics, like anyone, has a right to explain how their religious affirmation infuses their legal philsophy,

There is no religious test for holding office.....

How many times do we have to explain it to you doofuses.......?

 

[daveman]

Do the Catholics need seven of nine seats on SCOTUS?

Embracing the anti-Catholic bigotry early, huh?

 

[daveman]

Being concerned about the role religion plays in her decisions is not "anti-catholic" bigotry. As I recall, there was a lot of talk on Sotemyer and how her heritage as a hispanic woman would influence her decisions. To automatically presume anti-catholic bigotry is putting the horse before the cart and pretty disengenius.

~~~~~~
Was that similar to the remarks of Sen. Feinstein?
"Elected Democrats have been even more frank about their antipathy towards Catholics, even to the point of appearing to support an anti-Catholic religious test for nominees to the federal bench. It was during Barrett’s 2017 confirmation to the federal appellate court that Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein admitted openly that the judge’s Catholic faith was a problem for her, infamously telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
True to their historial ideology going back to the post Civil War era of KKK, Democrats use their positions to physically and literally lynch blacks, Catholics and Republicans every chance they get....

Democrats' god -- Government -- is a jealous god.

 

[busybee01]

In SCOTUS Confirmation Fight, Expect Democrats To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Bigotry against Catholics is nothing new in America. What’s new is Democrats’ wholesale embrace of it, which we might see play out in primetime. ​

In SCOTUS Confirmation, Expect Dems To Embrace Anti-Catholic Bigotry

Bigotry against Catholics is nothing new in America. What’s new is Democrats’ wholesale embrace of it, which we might see play out in primetime.

thefederalist.com

22 Sep 2020 ~ By John Daniel Davidson

President Trump is expected to pick a Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as early as the end of this week. Two of the people on Trump’s short list of possible nominees are Catholic women: Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate court judge in Chicago, and Barbara Lagoa, a federal appellate court judge in Atlanta.
If either of these eminently qualified judges gets the nomination, expect the media to go full-throttle with anti-Catholic bigotry. And expect Democrats to outdo the media in this regard, which is no easy task.
The media has wasted no time casting aspersions on Barrett for her Catholic faith. On Monday, the Washington Post ran a kind of explainer on Barrett, which included an out-of-context quote from a talk she apparently gave years ago, that a “legal career is but a means to an end… and that end is building the Kingdom of God.”
The statement itself, even without context, is an altogether ordinary expression of sincere religious belief that any devout person, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or Muslim, would readily affirm. Yet the Post’s Ron Charles highlighted it in a tweet Monday, as if to warn us that Barrett might try to usher in a Catholic theocracy if she gets onto the Supreme Court.
Also Monday, Newsweek published a somewhat hysterical piece about how Barrett is affiliated with a Christian religious group, People of Praise, that served as the inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale”—as if Barrett, a woman on the president’s short list for the Supreme Court, somehow exemplifies the oppression of women by a religious patriarchy. (Update: Newsweek posted a correction to this piece Tuesday, saying Margaret Atwood never mentioned People of Praise as an inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which calls into question the entire point of the article. The social media headline, however, remains unchanged.)
Elected Democrats have been even more frank about their antipathy towards Catholics, even to the point of appearing to support an anti-Catholic religious test for nominees to the federal bench. It was during Barrett’s 2017 confirmation to the federal appellate court that Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein admitted openly that the judge’s Catholic faith was a problem for her, infamously telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
During those same confirmation hearings, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin grilled Barrett on her faith, suggesting there’s something nefarious about being an “orthodox Catholic” and asking her, “Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?” She replied, “I am a Catholic, Senator Durbin.”
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Anti-Catholic Bigotry Is a Very Old Problem in America
For years now, leftists in the media have been wondering out loud if there are too many Catholics on the court, implying over and over again that Catholics are less likely to serve the public interest than any other group. We saw it after the Hobby Lobby ruling in 2014, we’ve seen it with Trump’s appointments to the federal appellate court, and we’ll almost certainly see a very ugly and open version of it if he nominates Barrett or Lagoa.
All of this is just the latest iteration of an old problem in America. Through much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Catholics were suspected of dual loyalties at best, at worst loyalty to Rome. They were shunned, maligned, and discriminated against by the Protestant mainstream in various ways, perhaps most infamously by the so-called Blaine Amendments in the 1880s, which barred state funds for Catholic schools.
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While anti-Catholic attitudes might have softened over the last 60 years—John F. Kennedy, Jr., didn’t face nearly the same hostility for being a Catholic in 1960 that New York Gov. Al Smith did as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928—they have not gone away. Among the leftists who now control the Democratic Party, they have become quietly commonplace.
Today, being anti-Catholic is one of the last acceptable prejudices in polite liberal society, and if Trump nominates a Catholic to the Supreme Court, we’re going to see its ugliness on full display once again.


Comment:
Meanwhile their hypocisy will be at their height because their presidential candidate is also "Catholic".
Also, can we recollect when the hag Pelosi invoked religious obligation last fall during the impeachment? I seem to remember lots of talk of sacred duties. But then duplicity never seems to bother the left.
Read:

Nancy Pelosi 'Invokes God' as She Raises Articles of Impeachment - 21st Century Wire

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To the DNC, Pelosi and China Joe, the Trump choices of Barrett or Lagoa are the wrong type of Catholics.
A good example of what will be happening is the following hilarious call left on yesterday to the "Howie Carr Show's Chump Line":
"Hello,Police...I'd like to report that I was tortured and raped by whoever Trump nominates for the Supreme Court".

There is no anti-Catholic bigotry. This is not a theocracy and anyone who wants to impose their religious beliefs on the country are the enemy of the country. We already have 4 justices who believe the church is above the law. Who want to impose their religious beliefs on others.