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mermeliz asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 7 months ago

Why is it such a big deal that Supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is Catholic?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is Catholic! So is House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. In fact, even former vice president Joe Biden is Catholic. So what is the big hulabaloo against Amy Barrett?

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  • Anonymous
    7 months ago
    Favourite answer

    Amy Barrett is a real Catholic who doesn't ignore biblical teachings that go against her political beliefs. Democrats are terrified that Barrett will not support their policies or their judicial activism.

  • 6 months ago

    The DEM's basically want satanist in all branches of government ...

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    Jealously pure and simple.

  • Anonymous
    6 months ago

    It's not just THAT she's Catholic. It's the WAY she's Catholic. There's a TYPE of Catholic who won't think for themselves. She never answered a direct question and seemed to have absolutely no personal concept of right and wrong, just answering to robotically that she'd follow the letter of the law.

  • Anonymous
    6 months ago

    Amy Barrett is a REAL Catholic. 

    Some of the lying left are CINOs. 

    Catholic in name only. 

    Like Nancy Pelosi.  She tells lies and manipulates constantly.  She's not at all benevolent.  She's malevolent.  I really wonder who pulls her strings.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 months ago

    It's not that she is Catholic that is the problem; it is that she belongs to a far right fringe group which happens to be 90% Catholic membership. Some people might call the People of Praise a "cult."

    See for yourself:

    https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/09/24/e...

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 months ago

    It's obvious.  It's like wearing blackface.  If dems do it, it's just fine and dandy if republicans do it, it's extreme dangerous behavior.

  • Anonymous
    7 months ago

    Beats me.  I lean left of center, but think she is a reasonable nominee.  Of course Trump will nominate someone conservative.  What do the democrats expect?  

  • Anonymous
    7 months ago

    The hulabaloo is about the fact that Barrett, while Catholic, is not a left-wing nut case.

  • Anonymous
    7 months ago

    Personally, IDGAF about her religion. It's her politics I find terrifying.

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