A new ‘Religious Test’?
July 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Religion, US ConstitutionSeth Lipsky writing in the New York Post, July 12:
“No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
“No . . . ever . . . any.” It’s not only the most emphatic statement in the entire Constitution but probably in all of American law. . . .
[Yet] an advertisement attacking the religion of the five Catholic justices of the Supreme Court . . . in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision . . . actually contained the phrase “Roman Catholic majority.” It named Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. . . .
The reason we don’t need to worry about the religion of our governmental officers is because of the constitutional oath. The oath—to support the Constitution—is required of every officer, legislator and judge of our national, state and local governments.
That’s not enough for the Democratic Party intelligentsia. It has been railing about Hobby Lobby for months. Joy Reid on MSNBC complained about the “six Catholic justices,” adding: “The question is do you trust this court to make those decisions?”
The American people are not dumb. They are increasingly seeing this kind of thing for what it is, a bigotry all its own.
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