Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Democrats' reaction to Sotomayor's Catholicism reflects double standard - WSJ.com
Different era? Isn't that convenient?
We're certainly NOT in a new era of politics. It's as ugly as always...
We're certainly NOT in a new era of politics. It's as ugly as always...
William McGurn writes about it in the Wall Street Journal:
"In opening yesterday's Judiciary Committee hearings on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court, Chairman Pat Leahy (D., Vt.) alluded to the religious prejudice that has too often intruded on the process.
The first Jewish nominee, he noted, had to answer 'questions about the Jewish mind and how its operations are complicated by altruism." The first Catholic nominee, he added, "had to overcome the argument that, as a Catholic, he'd be dominated by the pope.'
'We are,' Sen. Leahy declared, 'in a different era.'"
