A person may be opposed to abortion by their religion but they can be tested on the basis of their ideas on abortion while by-passing their religious based values.
Amy Coney Barrett is Catholic and is being considered for a Federal Judgeship. Her religion doesn’t disqualify her but her idea that that judges should put their religious faith ahead of the law can be used to disqualify her from being a federal judge, if the reviewers believe she cannot judge cases by the Constitution because she will first use her basis in religion.
“She has questioned Roe v Wade, and she has said that legal precedent is irrelevant.”
Barrett criticized Justice William Brennan for putting the Constitution above his Catholic faith. In a legal article titled “Catholic Judges in Capital Cases,” she condemned Brennan for writing, “There isn’t any obligation of our faith superior” to that (judicial) oath.
On the contrary, Barrett wrote: “We do not defend this position as the proper response for a Catholic judge to take with respect to abortion or the death penalty.”
Her critique is tantamount to relegating the Constitution as secondary to the Vatican’s authority for Roman Catholic judges
Barrett is superbly unqualified to be a judge anywhere in the United States of America because she puts her religion above the law. It should be the exact opposite for everyone if justice is to be served.
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