Posted on 09/26/2020 3:18:47 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Just hours before Donald Trump will presumably announce his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the New York Times pushed out this attempt to rehab attacks on Barrett over her Catholic faith. Give Elizabeth Bruenig this much credit she manages to front-load the debunking of attacks on Barrett over the false People of Praise/Handmaids Tale connection. Dianne Feinsteins comment, the dogma lives loudly within you, and thats of concern, is called infamous.
However, all that is mere predicate to declare attacks on Catholicism fair game in a confirmation hearing, because of its fundamental conflict with the American ethos:
But the animosity faced by Catholics in todays America has little in common with its direct predecessor. Real sex-abuse scandals have replaced the imaginary ones circulated in the lurid tracts of yesteryear. White Catholics are no longer subject to the religious bigotry that once animated vicious rumors and, occasionally, violent attacks on Catholics and their places of learning and worship. Rather than regenerating a long-vanquished prejudice, Ms. Barretts nomination has merely renewed attention to a fundamental conflict, centuries underway, between Catholicism and the American ethos.
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Supposedly on the day after the election Al Smith sent a telegram to the pope: "Unpack."
That was a joke, of course, making fun of the Protestant fears that he would have been a puppet of the pope if he had been elected.
NYT: Maybe a Little Anti-Semitism is a Good Thing When It Comes to Jared Kushner.
So is Sleepy Joe.
They know.
I cant tell you the number of Catholics who vote for dems because democrats are for the poor. And yes, that a quote.
Or this one from an elderly VERY Catholic neighbor who said, I know what the chirch teaches about abortion but nobody has the right to tell a woman what she can do with her own body. Another quote.
I was dumbfounded by all of them.
“Al Smith was the first Catholic nominated for President and the prejudice against Catholics was even stronger in 1928 than in 1960.”
Anti-Catholicism was one of the hallmarks of the 2nd Era KKK (1915-late 1920s). As was Prohibition, promoted by both the KKK and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
It’s been interesting to see some of our current pop-historians equate the Democratic Party with the KKK and yet fail to explain how Al Smith managed to be their 1928 Presidential nominee.
But I guess make believe history always runs into problems like that, even when it comes from our side.
In other words, White Catholics are no longer considered an oppressed group, so it is open season to slander their faith.
Of course Democrats are for the poor.
That’s why they’re always trying to make more of them.
So being Catholic is incapable with America, according to the Old Pinko Lady. I hope all of the Senate Demon-crats take the Time's advise to heart. They would reveal the hatred and bigotry that lies in all of their hearts.
“NYT: Maybe A Little Anti-Catholicism Is A Good Thing When It Comes To Barrett”
Except that it’s explicitly unconstitutional.
I’m reposing what someone else said...
The entire SCOTUS nomination process where the Senates advice and consent role has become search and destroy the character of the wrong partys nominee.
NYT has no integrity.
In the 1980s Stanley Rothman and Robert Lichter co-authored the “Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians and the New Left”.
They were liberal academics and this was a scholarly study of who exactly comprised the 1960s New Left radical movement; which I suppose now is the controlling influence in the Democratic Party.
Anyway the members were disproportionately Jews and Catholics, both groups having an affinity for radical politics. I can recall a good number of Protestant radicals running around in the 1960s as well but their proportion was smaller.
IIRC Rothman and Lichter were denounced as being evil “conservatives” which of course they weren’t, for simply having done the study.
And I got a chance to spend some time with them outside Walter Reed for a few hours...you should have heard them dish on what a turd Kerry was:
Merriam Webster has long gone full Leftist, and it is shameful but in no way surprise that Merriam Webster would draw a moral equivalence between what that scumbag Ted Kennedy did to Robert Bork (slandering as a racist and sexist a decent, able, and talented man) and the Swift Boat Vets telling the truth about a man who is a human stain on this country and a traitor, men who KNEW him and spoke the truth about him at a time when we needed men to do it.
Merriam Webster sucks.
Many of ‘em are, to borrow a phrase, “ham and cheese” Catholics.
Religious Test
Can they explain why Barrett being Catholic is a problem but for the other five Catholics on the court it isn’t?
Im happy but you already knew that lol
Nanzi P. Lousy is a “good Catholic”, she told the previous Pope he was wrong and that abortion and birth control ARE ok under Catholicism.
There was a Democrat Klansman on the Supreme Court who handed down a famous decision against allowing Catholic schools to use the city’s school buses.
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