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    Default Kamala Harris and the Religious Test of the 'New Liberalism'

    Kamala Harris is set to announce her candidacy for president sometime around Martin Luther King Jr. Day. What sort of chief executive would she be? Well, here's your first clue: On December 5, Harris posed a series of written questions to Brian Buescher, President Trump's nominee for District Court in Nebraska. The third question reads as follows:

    Since 1993, you have been a member of the Knights of Columbus, an all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men. In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as ‘a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.' Mr. Anderson went on to say that ‘abortion is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale.' Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman's right to choose when you joined the organization?

    Harris wasn't finished. Follow-ups included "Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed marriage equality when you joined the organization?" and "Have you ever, in any way, assisted with or contributed to advocacy against women's reproductive rights?"

    Buescher, a Nebraska native and graduate of the Georgetown Law Center, replied that he joined the Knights when he was 18 years old; that his involvement includes charitable work; and that his job as a judge is to apply the law regardless of his personal convictions. Strong answers. That he had to offer them is a disgrace.

    What Kamala Harris is suggesting is that membership in a 2 million-strong, 136-year-old Catholic social organization disqualifies an individual from the federal bench. She was joined in this line of questioning by Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii. The even worse news is that plenty of Senate Democrats agree with them. They've adopted a strategy of interrogating President Trump's judicial nominees about Catholic beliefs and associations. It began in September 2017 when Dianne Feinstein told Amy Coney Barrett, now confirmed to the Seventh Circuit, "The dogma lives loudly within you, and that's a concern."

    My concern is the anti-Catholic sentiment manifest in the Democratic Party. Last March, Feinstein demanded to know if Michael Scudder, now confirmed to the Seventh Circuit, worked with his parish "to establish a residential crisis pregnancy center." Last May, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island asked Peter J. Phipps, now confirmed as a district court judge, about the Knights. Last October, Feinstein, Harris, and three other Democrats wanted to know about the relationship between Fourth Circuit nominee Allison Jones Rushing and the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian nonprofit that supports religious liberty. Last November, Feinstein asked Third Circuit nominee Paul Matey, "If confirmed, will you recuse yourself from all cases in which the Knights of Columbus have taken a position?"

    Nor is it only Catholics who are subject to this religious test.
    The Democrats are ecumenical: Baptists and Episcopalians are also under scrutiny. In June 2017, Bernie Sanders clashed with Russell Vought, now acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, over a blog post Vought had written regarding Islam that several Muslim groups considered Islamophobic. "I'm a Christian, and I believe in a Christian set of principles based on my faith," Vought said. By the end of the exchange, Sanders said, "I would simply say, Mr. Chairman, that this nominee is really not someone who is what this country is supposed to be about." Vought is an elder in his church, married, and has two daughters.

    The following month, in questions to Trevor McFadden, now confirmed to D.C. district court, Whitehouse singled out McFadden's church, Falls Church Anglican, for its opposition to same-sex marriage. Whitehouse asked if McFadden agreed with statements made by his pastor. "It would be improper for me to state my personal opinions," McFadden responded in writing. "If I am confirmed as a judge, I will faithfully apply the applicable Supreme Court and D.C. Circuit precedents, including Obergefell v. Hodges." That wasn't enough for Whitehouse. What he was after was confession, repudiation, and repentance.

    So committed are these Senate Democrats to the doctrines of social liberalism that they are prepared to ignore the plain text of Article Six, Section Three, of the Constitution: "[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or Public Trust under the United States." Or is this another part of America's founding document that "evolving standards of decency" compel us to shunt aside?

    More than religious freedom is under attack in the controversy over the Knights. So is the freedom of association. In the midst of a social crisis that involves drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, depression, and loneliness, progressive Democrats seek to delegitimize the very organizations that promote community, connection, charity, and meaning.

    The ‘new liberalism‘ that is said to be ascendant in the Democratic Party undermines these twin pillars of American exceptionalism—religion and civil society—to advance the (quite brittle) cultural consensus that reigns in the megalopolis.

    No longer is the debate over Christianity in the public square. It is over Christians in the public square.
    https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-o...s-of-columbus/

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    It’s not the Catholic religion she opposed, it’s the fringe anti-woman group he joined.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    It’s not the Catholic religion she opposed, it’s the fringe anti-woman group he joined.
    ROFL.. Knights of Columbus is fringe anti-woman?

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    ROFL.. Knights of Columbus is fringe anti-woman?
    Yes.
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    Good thing he wasn't a member of the NRA...
    Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    Good thing he wasn't a member of the NRA...
    Yeah, or else he might be photographed alongside a known Russian spy.
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    So they hate Catholics again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    So they hate Catholics again.
    Correction ... "still" hate Catholics. Only nowadays, at least they are forced to stop lynching Catholics.

    Of course millenials don't even know that the Deomcrat Socialist KKK was into lynching and killing Catholics. The millenials just know they are supposed to hate Catholics ... unless they are Black or homo.
    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
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    Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.

    D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.

    Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    Correction ... "still" hate Catholics. Only nowadays, at least they are forced to stop lynching Catholics.
    Who lynched Catholics?

    Other than the Klan, who Conservatives think are "very fine people".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    Of course millenials don't even know that the Deomcrat Socialist KKK was into lynching and killing Catholics. The millenials just know they are supposed to hate Catholics ... unless they are Black or homo.
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    Another one who won't get anywhere. Two years is waaaaaaaay too early for a serious contender to announce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Another one who won't get anywhere. Two years is waaaaaaaay too early for a serious contender to announce.
    Primaries start June 2019. It’s not two years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Primaries start June 2019. It’s not two years.
    Who the hell is having a primary in June 2019? The Iowa caucus isn't until February 2020

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Another one who won't get anywhere.
    With dims she might. She's very, very fringy.
    Clinton begat Bush Jr, Bush Jr. begat Obama, Obama begat Trump, I'm afraid Trump will sire someone even more extreme. No end in sight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    With dims she might. She's very, very fringy.
    Clinton begat Bush Jr, Bush Jr. begat Obama, Obama begat Trump, I'm afraid Trump will sire someone even more extreme. No end in sight.
    She isn't extreme though. That is part of the reason she will get nowhere. I mean compared to fox news people she is extreme, but as a progressive, I don't see that she has a good track record of actually being progressive when she had the power to effect change. To me she is another Hillary--Talk Progressive, Fight for the Establishment Status Quo.

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