Re:Religious qualifications for public office in the United ...
by cofeecup on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:10PM
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I'm reading it, and from what I can tell she is being criticized for her politics. What's happening, according to the article, is that conservative leaning media and religious groups are framing those questions as anti-Catholic. It's a nice time honored political move of screaming "discrimination!" whenever people speak badly about you. It might fire up some demographics, but I don't see it.
The complaints about her have been purely about her political views and never about her religion directly.
Re:Religious qualifications for public office in the United ...
by rbecker on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:07PM
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Even that politico article is missing pertinent details:
"Judges cannot—nor should they try to—align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard. Perhaps their good example will have some effect," the paper [by Coney] concluded.
When asked during the 2017 Senate hearing how she would weigh her faith with her responsibilities as a judge, Barrett said, "It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions, whether they derive from faith or anywhere else on the law."
https://www.newsweek.com/what-has-amy-coney-barrett-said-abo...
The article is more nuanced than the headline. If you're just reading headlines, though (because you're skimming a news aggregator, say), then you get the idea that people think she can't be a Supreme Court justice because she's Catholic. Down in the article, you find that people think that she can't be a Supreme Court justice because they think it's problematic the kind of Catholic that she is. (Or at least because of the political implications of the kind of Catholic she is.)
That's coming from people in office, not just from random crazies on Twitter.