Democrats are unhinged over nomination of Amy Coney Barrett

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, ought to recycle remarks of fellow Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy.

Running for president in 1960, the Massachusetts Democrat came under fire from critics who questioned whether as president he would make decisions independent of the Catholic Church.

Addressing a group of skeptical Protestant clergymen in a pivotal speech in Houston, Kennedy did much to lay the issue at rest.

Kennedy said: “I am not the Catholic candidate for president. I am the Democrat Party’s candidate for president, who happens to be a Catholic. I do not speak for the church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.”

Facing hostile questioning from progressive and secular Democrats on the Judiciary Committee in her upcoming hearing, Barrett could say: “I am not the Catholic candidate for the U.S Supreme Court. I am President’s Trump’s nominee who happens to be Catholic. I do not speak for the church in public matters, and church does not speak for me.”

It is what she has said, in so many words, in the past and it is what she believes.

Not that it will do any good. She has already been savaged by Democrats and Democrat activist in the media for her religious beliefs and for her strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

And in their view she is the frightening opposite of the late progressive Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who she will replace.

What has unhinged the Democrats is that her confirmation by the Senate — and she will be confirmed –means that the Supreme Court will be in the hands of the conservatives by a four to three majority for years to come, no matter who is elected president in November.

That is so appalling to Democrats that they are talking about packing — or expanding — the number of justices on the court so they can turn it into a subcommittee of the Democrat Party.

And Joe Biden is for it, or at least not opposed, since he refused to answer a question on it during the presidential debate Tuesday night.

While Democrats praised Ginsburg for doing much for women over her long judicial career, they lined up to oppose Barrett, a working woman — she is a U.S. Circuit of Appeals Court judge — named to take her place.

Mother of 7

She is a woman who is the married mother of seven school-aged children, two of whom are Haitian adoptees, one with special needs.

Barrett, 48, is a graduate of Rhodes College and the University of Notre Dame Law School, finishing first in her 1997 class. She served as a clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia before going into private practice and then teaching at Notre Dame.

President Trump nominated here to serve as a U.S. Appeals Court judge in 2017.

She was approved by the Senate, but not before Sen. Diane Feinstein and other Democrats brought up her Catholicism.

At one point, Sen Dianne Feinstein expressed concern over Barrett’s faith.

“The dogma lives loudly in you,” Feinstein said. Sen. Dick Durbin asked her, “Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?”

This time around a Boston University professor accused Barrett and her husband Jesse of being “white colonizers” for adopting the Haitian children, another commentator said Barrett belonged to a “Christofacist cult,” and talent-challenged television performer Bill Maher said Barrett was a “f—— nut.’

It is interesting to note that none of these people would have the nerve to make such remarks about a woman of Barrett’s character and accomplishments if she were a Muslim, instead of a Christian.

People who believe in nothing, like faithless secular Democrats, often resent people of faith who find meaning, peace and serenity in life through their faith.

Barrett is a Roman Catholic believer. That is why phony cafeteria Catholics (they take this but reject that) like Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Eddie Markey, are also resentful of all out Catholics like Barrett.

Barrett is a member of a faith community within the Catholic Church called People of Praise. It is a charismatic, ecumenical renewal group within the church that emphasizes personal conversion and the teachings of Christ and holds traditional views of marriage and family.

While the group has been accused of subjugating women, you could not tell that by Barrett.

While her husband may be a lawyer, Barrett wears the robes in the family.