Op-Ed: Barrett's confirmation would seal a Catholic court supermajority. It's all about timing

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Op-Ed: Barrett's confirmation would seal a Catholic court supermajority. It's all about timing (via latimesopinion)

Amy Coney Barrett plus four other dogmatically far-right legal minds could take the court dangerously out of the mainstream of legal thought and society’s needs.

Anti-Catholicism, however, has been historically baked into Protestantism . In Protestant-dominated America, Catholics for many years faced social discrimination that tended to bar them from the top-of-the-line legal institutions that led to Supreme Court seats. Around the same time, American Christianity as a whole became entangled with the partisan political divide, said James Patterson, an associate professor of politics at Ave Maria University in Florida whose research investigates the role popular religious leaders have played in secular politics. In the past, generally conservative figures such as the Rev. Billy Graham and Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, along with generally liberal figures such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The alignment is understandable. As the Democratic Party — once a Big Tent stronghold for the working classes, including generations of Catholic immigrants — moves ever closer to an absolutist pro-choice position, it has become officially hostile to those who view abortion as a serious evil. The last Democrat for Life in Congress, Dan Lipinski of Illinois, a Catholic, lost a primary challenge this year to a progressive, Marie Newman.

 

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opinion You people are zealots.

opinion How can anyone take these Cons seriously? They steal everything including campaign slogans and imagery. And why not? They steal elections, Supreme Court seats, and they don't pay their taxes. Why should they bear any form of responsibility?

opinion How anyone can call themselves a Catholic, or any Christian denomination, and support republicans and trump is way beyond me.

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