Democrats employ an unconstitutional religious test for judicial appointments

streif:
One would think it is rather cut-and-dried. Article 6 of the US Constitution reads, in part:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
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Brian Buescher, a distinguished Omaha lawyer, has been nominated to be a district judge in the District of Nebraska. He’s received a questionnaire from the Senate Judiciary Committee which contains a question from Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono. Hirono is rapidly establishing a reputation for being a viciously stupid say-anything kind of partisan that one-party Democrat states seem to spawn with fearful regularity.

In written questions sent to Mr. Buescher by committee members Dec. 5, Sen. Hirono stated that “the Knights of Columbus has taken a number of extreme positions. For example, it was reportedly one of the top contributors to California’s Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage.”

Hirono then asked Buescher if he would quit the group if he was confirmed “to avoid any appearance of bias.”

Dear Lord, the Knights of Columbus? The most offensive thing about the Knights of Columbus is the feathered hats.

Corey “No, really, I am actually heterosexual” Booker also had a noteworthy addition:

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) noted the nominee’s previously outspoken opposition to abortion and asked “why should a litigant in your courtroom expect to get a fair hearing from an impartial judge in a case involving abortion rights?”

Read the whole questionnaire.

This is why is have come to disregard the views of those who keep telling me that there is no persecution of Christians in America or how the “war on Christmans” is something Fox News dreamed up as red meat for their audience. When anti-Christian and anti-Catholic bigotry have become such a part of mainstream political life that a man can be asked, with a straight face…or as straight a face as the “body positive” Hirono can muster…if he will resign from a Catholic fraternal order because that order supported the definition of marriage has had been understood by humanity from the beginning of time until the days of Anthony Kennedy, then we have reached a state where persecution is real and all we are discussing is how severe the penalty will be.

In the case of Buescher, these senators wish to deny him an appointment to the federal bench. In the case of Jack Phillips and Barronelle Stutzman, they want to deprive them of a livelihood and fine them into penury.
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Democrats have decided that Christianity is against their secular religion when they are pushing their weird beliefs about sex and abortion.

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