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It’s open season on Amy Coney Barrett, the appeals-court judge reported to top President Trump’s list of candidates to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court. Barrett is a devout Roman Catholic and a member of an ecumenical charismatic community, so naturally, Democrats and their media allies are trying to cast her as Dangerous Theocrat.
But the least they can do is get the facts right. Sadly, it seems that’s too much to ask. Witness Villanova professor Massimo Faggioli’s flatulent hit piece published at Politico Thursday. Faggioli charges Barrett with membership in a “Christian group with a highly authoritarian internal structure.” This, he argues, means interrogating her religious faith is within bounds in a potential confirmation battle.
Never mind that the US Constitution bars such interrogation (“no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States”). It’s harder still to take Faggioli seriously when he makes three basic factual errors in a short piece.
First error: Barrett’s “community covenant” is no secret
Faggioli wants the Senate to “examine any covenant — a solemn contract binding before God — that she signed in the course of becoming a full member of People of Praise,” the charismatic community to which she belongs. “What is its nature and scope? What are the consequences of violating it?”
Actually, senators won’t need to go sleuthing in dusty Vatican archives — because they can find the PoP’s “Community Covenant” with a simple Google search. And it’s about as anodyne as you’d expect the vows of an ecumenical group devoted to living wholesome, godly lives to be: “We commit ourselves to live our lives in true righteousness and holiness. All of our lives must be worthy of the calling to which we have been called,” etc. etc.
Continued below.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/politicos-pretentious-error-filled-hit-against-amy-coney-barrett/
But the least they can do is get the facts right. Sadly, it seems that’s too much to ask. Witness Villanova professor Massimo Faggioli’s flatulent hit piece published at Politico Thursday. Faggioli charges Barrett with membership in a “Christian group with a highly authoritarian internal structure.” This, he argues, means interrogating her religious faith is within bounds in a potential confirmation battle.
Never mind that the US Constitution bars such interrogation (“no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States”). It’s harder still to take Faggioli seriously when he makes three basic factual errors in a short piece.
First error: Barrett’s “community covenant” is no secret
Faggioli wants the Senate to “examine any covenant — a solemn contract binding before God — that she signed in the course of becoming a full member of People of Praise,” the charismatic community to which she belongs. “What is its nature and scope? What are the consequences of violating it?”
Actually, senators won’t need to go sleuthing in dusty Vatican archives — because they can find the PoP’s “Community Covenant” with a simple Google search. And it’s about as anodyne as you’d expect the vows of an ecumenical group devoted to living wholesome, godly lives to be: “We commit ourselves to live our lives in true righteousness and holiness. All of our lives must be worthy of the calling to which we have been called,” etc. etc.
Continued below.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/politicos-pretentious-error-filled-hit-against-amy-coney-barrett/