Senators Were Right to Ask Those Questions on Religion

[trotsky]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/senators-were-right-to-ask-those-questions-on-religion-11547582613

Regarding your editorial “Kamala Harris’s Dark Knights” (Jan. 3): Sens. Harris and Mazie Hirono’s questions for Brian Buescher were focused on appropriate and important questions, namely whether the nominee could be counted on as a federal judge to recognize and protect the legal equality of LGBTQ Americans and the right of American women to have access to safe and legal abortion.

You charge that such questioning is about trying to “banish” people from public life for their religious beliefs and associations. In reality, protecting the legal rights of all Americans of all faiths by ensuring that nominees for powerful lifetime seats on America’s federal courts are committed to enforcing them is one of senators’ most important responsibilities, one that the current Republican majority has abandoned in its rush to achieve ideological domination of the courts.

Michael Keegan
President
People For the American Way

People often ask atheists why they care about religion, why they talk about religion, or why they are so interested in religion. This is why. It affects our lives whether we believe in it or not.