[Right Wing Professor]

One reason we got this horrible nomination is that too many conservatives have come to equate conservatism with fundamentalist Christianity. They are two different things. Churchgoing is no substitute for a real understanding of the constitution and its principles.

No argument here. I couldn't have put it better myself, in fact.

I was just answering a question someone asked.

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"One reason we got this horrible nomination is that too many conservatives have come to equate conservatism with fundamentalist Christianity. They are two different things. Churchgoing is no substitute for a real understanding of the constitution and its principles.

A SCOTUS Judge must have a "real understanding of the constitution and its principles.

And that's the bottom line.