Dems bring out anti-Catholic ammo against Supreme contender
Sorry, Catholics — you’re canceled!
Your theology is banished. Your religious groups are unacceptable. No room for you at the judicial inn.
(For the liberals/progressives in the audience, that’s a reference from the Bible. Or as you know it, “The White Supremacist Conspiracy Handbook.”)
Judge Amy Coney Barrett should be banned from the Supreme Court, many Democrats argue, because she’s a believer. And no devoutly religious person can be trusted with a judgeship.
Unless they’re Muslim. Then it’s OK. Or Jewish. Totally cool. Wiccan? Why not?
So let’s re-phrase: No devoutly Catholic person can be trusted. Particularly not those crazies who actually, you know … go to Mass.
Cue Newsweek, with a story headlining the “fact” that Judge Barrett’s a member in the Christian organization that inspired Margaret Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale” and its misogynistic fictional dystopia. Only one problem: Barrett’s not a member of that organization, as Newsweek was forced to admit — a fact that failed to stop other media outlets like Reuters from spreading the story, anyway.
Yes, Judge Barrett is part of a charismatic Catholic group, a patriarchal organization so anti-woman, as National Review’s David Harsanyi noted, “Barrett’s knuckle-dragging misogynistic religious fanatic husband has only let the poor woman out of the house twice. Once, to serve a 15year stint as a law professor at a highly prestigious university. And again to slave away as a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.”
But why be surprised by the attacks on Barrett’s Catholic faith? Anti-Catholic bigotry is a dogma that thrives within the Democratic Party, and it has for a while.
When President Trump sent Judge Brian Buescher before the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Kamala Harris demanded he explain his membership in an “extreme” and “all-male” organization — the nefarious Knights of Columbus!
“Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization,” she demanded, apparently unaware of the entire abortion debate for the last 50 years.
“Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed marriage equality when you joined the organization?” Ditto.
Buescher, a lifelong Catholic, answered: “I do not recall if I was aware whether the Knights of Columbus had taken a position on same-sex marriage at the time I joined at the age of 18.”
Fellow Democrat Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii asked Buescher if he would quit the Knights “to avoid any appearance of bias.”
Imagine a Muslim judge being asked to leave a mosque. Imagine a Jewish nominee being asked, “Do you consider yourself Orthodox?” the way Illinois Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin did of Judge Barrett during her previous hearings.
Well, you can’t imagine it. Because no Democrat would do it. Ever.
Folks, it’s Catholicism. What are these liberals worried about — Subversive Bingo Night?
These paranoid progressives sound like the Nicaraguan commander in the classic movie “Red Dawn” explaining why he thinks one of the renegade teenagers is a potential threat.
“He a member of an elite, paramilitary organization: Eagle Scout.”
My favorite part of the anti-Catholic attacks on Barrett is when liberals complain that she will impose her beliefs from the bench. What are her beliefs? That courts … shouldn’t impose their beliefs from the bench. That on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, the people should govern themselves through the democratic process.
“Exactly!” Democrats cry. “That’s just the sort of fascist extremism we’re against!”
Democrats aren’t against religion. They’re against anything that stands in the way of their religion: total faith in their secular, politics-uber-alles world view.
Wouldn’t it be great to see the same progressives who’ve spent 20 years saying there’s no connection between terrorists screaming “Allahu Akbar!” and Islamist extremism now stand up and defend the right of faithful Catholics to be judged on merit, not their religion?
For that matter, wouldn’t it be great of the Catholics of Massachusetts — the second-most Catholic state in the U.S. — spoke out against these un-Constitutional religion tests?
Instead, the critical job of defending the American tradition of religious freedom is left to … Donald Trump.
Pray for us.