A Hindu Defends Catholics

For John, BLUF:  It is a stretch, but not much of a stretch, to say US Progressives are becoming Communist China-like in terms of resistance to Christianity.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Democratic Congresswoman Calls Out Fellow Democrats for ‘Religious Bigotry’

From National Review, by Ms Alexandra DeSanctis, 9 January 2019.

Here is the lede plus four:

Representative Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii, published an op-ed in The Hill yesterday, implicitly criticizing two of her fellow Democratic congresswomen for subjecting a judicial nominee to a religious test as a result of his Catholic faith and his long-time membership in the Knights of Columbus.

Though she doesn’t mention them by name, Gabbard was referring to Democratic senators Kamala Harris (Calif.) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), both of whom have targeted federal judicial nominee Brian Buescher for his Catholicism, and the latter of whom has demanded that he drop his membership in the Knights and recuse himself from any case on which the organization has taken a position.

Gabbard does explicitly cite the controversial comments of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), who in the fall of 2017 questioned circuit-court nominee Amy Coney Barrett about her Catholic faith during her confirmation hearing, saying, “The dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.” Feinstein’s remark received significant backlash from the right, and from Catholics in particular, who rightly noted the senator’s obvious implication that practicing Catholics are not suited to serve on U.S. courts as a result of their faith.

“While I oppose the nomination of Brian Buescher to the U.S. District Court in Nebraska, I stand strongly against those who are fomenting religious bigotry, citing as disqualifiers Buescher’s Catholicism and his affiliation with the Knights of Columbus,” Gabbard went on. More from her op-ed:

The party that worked so hard to convince people that Catholics and Knights of Columbus like Al Smith and John F. Kennedy could be both good Catholics and good public servants shows an alarming disregard of its own history in making such attacks today. We must call this out for what it is – religious bigotry. . . . Elected leaders engaging in religion-baiting are playing with fire.

This activity Representative Gabbard has called out is just wrong, but not without precedent.  Remember the Know Nothing's?

The Progressives, the Secular Humanists, can drive religious people out of the public square, but only by destroying the First Amendment.  And it won't succeed in destroying belief in God.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff