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What an obnoxious question to ask in the first place.
It should not be asked except by people who are intellectually honest enough to permit me to ask:
"Is Alito good for WASPs?" There are few such people in today's hyper-PC environment.
While the author of the "Yes" column seems reasonable and sincere, he misses the point. The vast majority of people who think in terms of "is it good for the Jews" aren't interested in religious freedom. They're interested in forcing everyone else to make them feel comfortable -- no public celebration of Christmas, no support for private or parochial schools, no abstinence education, no Pat Robertson or any other social conservative preaching on TV, etc., etc., etc. So unfortunately, the column will have no impact on its intended audience.
The author would do better to urge people to think in terms of the overall good of society. America has been the promised land for Jews, and many of them need to think much more deeply than they have about what made it so,
and, therefore, what is in their long-term interest.
I don't know but I would guess he is safe for the Christian tolerating Jew and unsafe for the Christian hating Jew. But that's just me.
Abe Foxman...it's looking unsafe just as you predicted.