My sense is that Marlin is imagining enemies where few can be found. Schumer does not represent the views of Mainstream America. On the contrary, many Christian denominations have coalesced to protect their right to practice their religion without government (read, ACLU) interference. The new alignments indicate much has changed.
Throw in their elitist arrogance and they become dangerous.
As a Catholic I still encounter anti-Catholic bias fairly frequently. Just something one has to deal with, I suppose.
He represents the mainstream of one of the two major political parties, and in any event, many leaders of the Democratic party, including Kennedy, Kerry, Dean, etc., do wish to impose a religious litmus test -- no traditional Catholic believers need apply.
Yeah but those responsible for the anti-Catholic bias against Roberts et al are themselves Catholics - or consider themselves as such - Kennedy, Leahy, Kerry and Biden.
Funny that some of the media's favorite Senators are Catholic. Kennedy, Kerry...
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Mainstream America is not re
presented in the high councils of the Democratic Party. Since 1980 every Catholic Democratic politician with hopes for high office has had to subordinate his faith to his ambition. But it goes deeper than that. the pro-abortion crowd assrts that the opposition to abortion is only faith based, that it is simply a matter of religious dogma. They swept under the rug the fact that there is disagreement in the medical community based on different interpretation of data. They ignore the fact that lawyers have never accepted Blackmun's reasoning in the Roe/Doe cases, even those who support the decision. In 1973 the Court hoped to steamroll any opposition, because only the Catholic Church had any principled objection to their findings. The Evangelical opposition began to build only after the numbers of abortions increased to horrific levels. Divisions in the Catholic Church have weakened her ability to influence even her own flock, and many Catholics have chosen assimilation into an increasingly secular society before their faith, a trend encouraged by false priests like Father Drinan and liberal bishops who were more interested in promoting the social Gospel than in opposing a pernicuous law. They have reaped what they have sown: the elites have cut them no slack as can be seen by the calumny that has followed the gay priest scandals. The national elite would have Catholics silent and confined to Sunday worship.