Religious Thugs for Obama By Joseph D'HippolitoFrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, November 03, 2008 Challenging Democratic Senator Barack Obama means facing a squadron of self-benighted ideological body guards who will exploit law to intimidate opponents – as one Catholic prelate recently discovered. Bishop Arthur Serratelli of Patterson, NJ, wrote a column for his diocesan newspaper October 9 in which he implied that Obama’s support for pro-abortion legislation would destroy constitutionally protected freedom. On October 24, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (or AU) announced that it would petition the Internal Revenue Service to review the Diocese of...