Classic: A Catholic Law Professor and Mother of 7 Meets a Liberal Catholic Senator

I can't put it any better than the author Terry Mattingly did here. Amy Barrett, grilled by liberal senators, some of whom are "Catholic", on her religious faith. And they did so every whichaway, actually.

Of course, Barrett actually said she would not let her beliefs affect her rulings. The committee chairman, Senator Chuck Grassley (a Republican and a advocate for Barrett), asked: “When is it proper for a judge to put their religious views above applying the law?” Barrett replied in a word: “Never.”

So, alright, how does that work, actually? The "cosmic background noise" to modern Western culture, and certainly the U.S., is the Christian Faith. Holdovers from the Christian Faith are all about us, particularly in the "welfare state" mentality, which is a perversion of Christian charity (i.e., it's not charity if you're forced via taxes to pay for good things for people, like health care, etc.). Also, in pre-Christian Iceland (or Ireland or pretty much anywhere outside of Israel) it was OK to expose your new-born infants if you didn't want 'em, and fine to just kill someone outright, if you wanted to. You only had to do so in public and then pay the "body price" (in pagan England: the wergeld) for 'em.

Christianity changed all that.

This is the basic incoherence to the idea of a country (the U.S. in its Constitution of 1787 was the first nation to do this) formally, legally, constitutionally separating itself from God. "What's Moral" becomes just a matter of public opinion, and Gay Marriage is a good example of this. 50 years ago, had you advocated such an idea, you'd have been locked up, or shot. 20 years ago, you'd been laughed at. 10 years ago, well, many would have said "That's nice, but way too extreme". Etc. Or today American kids are being conditioned to accept Transexism. (If that's a word.) Try to advocate that 10 years ago – that children be so taught in schools – and you'd have been locked up for a child molester, or just shot on sight.

In other words, Religion is the source of our morality, upon which the secular laws are based. And in the Christian tradition, and in the Jewish one before it, since God is Absolute Being, His Law is absolute and unchanging. We are made to conform to it and if we don't, we're lost. Cut yourself off formally from that foundation and it would be better for your salvation if you were a street sweeper.

Whatever.

See also Phil Lawler's take here.

In any event, here's an excerpt of the opening of the article I linked to above.

So, did you read all the stories about the liberal Episcopalian who was nominated to a federal appeals court seat, only to be grilled about her religious beliefs – with subtle references to her same-sex marriage – by evangelical Protestants, Mormons and Catholics in a U.S. Senate hearing?

I mean, one senator called her a Communist because of her decision to speak at a meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union. One conservative Anglican on the committee questioned whether her vocal support for her church's doctrine should block her appointment to a federal court. Another conservative Anglican asked her point blank: "Are you a liberal Episcopalian?”

Wait, you didn't see coverage of that story by journalists at major newspapers and cable networks?

Right, I made that up. But can you imagine the mainstream press failing to spotlight a story in which fundamentalist yahoos did something like that to a liberal religious believer?

Me either. So did I miss something when we had that story in reverse? I searched all over for mainstream coverage of this real story, including at the newspaper of record. Scan this simple Google News search and tell me if I blinked and missed something important.

Now let's turn to alternative, "conservative" media outlets and look at this real story – only reversed in a journalistic mirror. In the real world, we have a pro-Catechism Catholic nominee, a Notre Dame University law professor and mother of seven, facing a liberal Catholic senator. The consistently #NeverTrump National Review reported:

... [D]uring a confirmation hearing for 7th Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein attacked the nominee for her Roman Catholic faith.

An Préachán:
 I love that opening and its sustained sarcasm. Were the shoe on the other foot and a liberal/Progressive Christian grilled in the same way by conservative senators as the Catholic was by Democrats, the MSM would be screaming at the top of its collective voice.