“If a Muslim woman was nominated to SCOTUS you would see Republicans lose their mind about her religious background,” Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted.
. GOP lawmakers insisted that the religious views of Barrett, who is Roman Catholic, should be off-limits and that any mention of them veered into bigotry.“If a Muslim woman was nominated to SCOTUS you would see Republicans lose their mind about her religious background,” Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted Monday. “‘Sharia law’ would be trending right now. Miss me with the pearl-clutching and all this righteous talk about religious freedom.
“This pattern and practice of religious bigotry — because that’s what it is, when you tell somebody they are too Catholic to be on the bench, when you say they will be a Catholic judge, not an American judge — that is bigotry,” said Sen. Josh Hawley . “The practice of bigotry from members of this committee must stop, and I would expect that it be renounced.”
“Every time the GOP complains about the religious tests, this is what they have subjected Muslims to in the United States since forever,” said Mona Eltahawy, a feminist and author.conservative faith group called the People of Praise, is easier for the GOP to defend because she represents what some see as the American default in a society that centers itself on white patriarchal Christian norms.
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