No Catholics Need Apply

Ahh, the wondrous tolerance and open-mindedness of the Democrats:

For many Democrats the only good Catholic is a bad one -- a Catholic ready to dissent from his religion for the sake of a spot in the secularized public square. Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer, and company are sure to question, in one veiled form or another, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts about his Catholicism. That is, they won't baldly ask him about his religion but they will probe his "personal" views, and the question implied will be: You promise to give our judges' liberal rewriting of the Constitution greater priority than your own religion, right?

Anticipating this angle, the mainstream media have already begun to red flag Roberts' religion. On CNN, Miles O'Brien asked a guest: "And, you know, he's, you know, by all accounts, a Roman Catholic who adheres to the tenets of that faith. Do you suspect that he will advocate and when the opportunity comes up, reversing some of the key aspects of Roe v. Wade, which provide abortion rights in this country?"

On MSNBC, one of Tucker Carlson's sparring partners even raised an objection to Roberts' wife's personal views, reporting with alarm her ties to a pro-life group.

I'm sure Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry will stick up for a fellow Catholic, particularly the former since his family was smeared during the 1960 campaign.

I'm sure they will.

Eventually.