Biden is Roman Catholic. Is my next question supposed to be so what, or are we just going to stipulate that it's pretty weird for Rs to propose anti-catholic bigotry at play in Democrats' opposition to Barrett's nomination, since our own nominee is Roman Catholic himself.
It's hilarious in a noir vein that the Rs, at the bidding of evangelical Protestants when putting conservatives on the court, seem no longer to trust Protestants in general not to drift to the left, ever since David Souter (an Episcopalian) deeply disappointed some conservative voters. Some Protestant sects at least in the USA don't actually regard either Episcopalians, Anglicans or Roman Catholics as "real" Christians yet lately choose RCs for the court.
Conservatives do increasingly seem to expect their picks on the high court to rule in the context of some sort of imagined "Christian" construction of the United States of America despite the clear text of the First Amendment, meanwhile putting RCs onto the bench in the assumption they will rule against abortion... forgetting they may also rule against the death penalty, for example, if they set religious doctrine before the Constitution and legal precedents.
Go figure. Bottom line: the politicization of selections for the high court, the unreasonable expectations that the politics of whoever appointed a justice should drive interpretation of the Constitution, and the increasing entanglement by Republicans of politics and the pulpit since the 1990s are making of our federal benches an unholy and convoluted hell for an America whose founders proposed an independent judiciary.
