The Republicans' hypocrisy in Monday's Amy Coney Barrett hearing was simply unbearable

[Zorro]

By Robin Abcarian

On Monday, the first day of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, not a single Democratic U.S. senator breathed a word about her religion.

No one mentioned that she was an ultra-conservative Catholic, or that she belongs to People of Praise, a religious community that called women “handmaidens” until a dystopian television fantasy made the word untenable.

No one quoted her now-famous exhortation to Notre Dame law school graduates in 2006 that a legal career “is but a means to an end … and that end is building the kingdom of God.”

Yet, had you listened only to Republicans on the committee, you would have assumed that’s all Democrats talked about.

“The pattern and practice of religious bigotry from members of this committee must stop!” said Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley.

Say what?

Republicans tried to wish into existence a religious attack that was not forthcoming.

Democrats knew better than to walk into that trap.

They ignored the nominee’s religion entirely.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-10-12/column-the-republicans-hypocrisy-in-mondays-amy-coney-barrett-hearings-was-simply-unbearable

[Walleye]

1. Religions especially Christians have a need for persecution even if they have to make it up

[Laelth]

2. Well played, Democrats! n/t

-Laelth