I read about this somewhere last week, but figured it was just a joke. Anti-Catholic bias? They really think that this one's going to sell?
Accusation of Bias Angers Democrats
By ROBIN TONERWASHINGTON, July 26 — The battle over judicial nominations has grown ever more bitter on Capitol Hill, but Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee say they are particularly outraged over the latest turn: the accusation that their resistance to some conservative nominees amounts to anti-Catholic bias.
In a recent newspaper advertising campaign, run by groups supporting the Bush administration's judicial nominees, a closed courtroom door bears the sign "Catholics Need Not Apply." The advertisement argues that William Pryor Jr., the Alabama attorney general and a conservative, anti-abortion nominee to the federal appeals court, was under attack in the Senate because of his "deeply held" Catholic beliefs.
To be honest, I didn't even know Pryor was a Catholic until I read of this last week, and I was raised Catholic.
He's not really catholic, sort of. He's part of some orthodox type offshoot (it's actually related to some of the groups that Rudolph terrorist guy was in, if I remember correctly...which is a 50/50 proposition at 5:15 in the morning)...they don't accept Vatican II, among other things. As the saying goes, they're more old testament than new.
Posted by: JoeF at July 27, 2003 05:09 AM