Posted on 06/29/2019 3:55:18 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Sen. Kamala Harris is running for president in a very crowded field. Maybe the need to distinguish herself drove her to take the lead on anti-Catholicism. Or maybe, along with some of her Democratic colleagues, Harris, D-Calif., is playing the long game and is simply trying to institute a religious test for office that places Catholic teaching beyond the bounds of tolerable opinions.
Harris this month went after Brian Buescher, President Trump’s nominee for a federal court vacancy in Nebraska, for belonging to the Knights of the Columbus. This is damning, Harris’ questions implied, because the Knights is “all-male,” because the organization’s president described Roe v. Wade as “a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths” (fact check: true), and because the president described abortion as “the killing of the innocent” (ditto). Further, the Knights “opposed marriage equality,” Harris pointed out.
Harris’ colleague on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, went further. She demanded that Buescher, if he is to be a federal judge, drop his membership in the Knights and recuse himself from every issue on which the Knights have taken an opinion.
This is, of course, absurd. The American Bar Association lobbies for stricter gun control laws, among many other policies. Should Justice Sonia Sotomayor have to quit the ABA and recuse herself from all gun control cases and any cases involving topics where the ABA takes a position?
The Knights of Columbus are not a fringe group. They are the single largest Catholic service organization in the country. Mostly they serve as ushers during Mass, run pancake breakfasts afterward, hold fish fries on Fridays in Lent, provide life insurance to members, and do charitable works, such as visiting the imprisoned. This may sound benign, but to the likes of Hirono and Harris, it isn’t. You see, the Knights do these things because the Catholic Church teaches that such “corporal works of mercy” are what God commands of us.
This fealty to Catholic teaching is precisely the offense in the eyes of Hirono and Harris. Their goal, we have to assume, is to deem Catholic teaching out of bounds.
Their attempt at a logical argument is absurd: Abortion is legal and so someone who thinks it ought to be illegal — or who belongs to a group that holds that view — is unqualified to be a judge. Nobody honestly thinks this way, otherwise every supporter of net neutrality, opponent of the Patriot Act, critic of Citizens United, or advocate of further gun control law would be disqualified.
That’s why the deeper, anti-Catholic and anti-Christian motivation is the more likely explanation. Also, it fits into a pattern. Recall how Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., attacked judicial nominee Amy Coney Barrett on the grounds that “the dogma” spoke too loudly within her?
Conservative writer Alexandra DeSanctis at National Review posited that the effort against Buescher was “a test run in preventing their worst nightmare: the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.”
This is probably correct. But it’s also something bigger: Harris, Hirono, Feinstein, and the Democratic Party in general want a religious test for office. We can't let them have it.
Amen brother!
Isn’t Kamala a Hindoo. Or maybe a Voodoo? Or half of each?
I don’t get this.
First off, I don’t think judges who are Catholic are going to impose their faith on others, in the execution of their duties as judges.
Secondly, these liberal people DO want to see certain judges impose their faith. And those would be liberal judges. For such judges, their religion is liberalism.
Commies will be commies....bank on it.
Ok. Then any m*slim is unfit for public office. *slam is incompatible with the Constitution.
He should have answered every question from her:
No I did not Sleep my way to the top of my career.
They’re both a couple of Godless p.o.s.
As a matter of fact, the Koran says lying to an infidel is not a sin, allowing infidels to live to preach their false beliefs in place of the true Islam is wrong, and so on. Sharia Law overrules local law in any country.
John F. Kennedy had to give a speech that he would not consult or allow any prelate or Catholic leader’s opinion in place of Americans’ best interests. Isn’t it well established that a catholic can serve in all elected offices without fear of some “foreign” influence on them?
Jury is still out on the likes of Omar and Tlaib who may at any time choose to be traitors to America to aid the Palestinians or Iranians. Does anyone really think otherwise?
“Isn’t Kamala a Hindoo. Or maybe a Voodoo? Or half of each?”
She is a Christian, specifically Baptist:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/us/kamala-harris-fast-facts/index.html
Bump! See tag.
Harris may claim to be a Baptist. But, as a Baptist myself I can say she neither walks the walk or talks the talk.
CNN says that she is a Christian?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Let’s see what Vote Smart says:
Kamala Harris’ Biography
. . . Religion: Baptist
https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/120012/kamala-harris
Hope she likes her marshmallows roasted.
LOL. Like Jimmy Carter.
You spelled whore wrong...
Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono deserve scorn. for effort to establish an anti-Catholic religious test
There...ain't that better...and more to the truth and point?
Agree here too!
Kamal Harris and Mazie Hirono deserve scorn for MANY things.
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