Roberts Should Come Clean on Religious Views
John Roberts should come clean on his religious views on abortion. This country has seen enough double standards and heard enough of the Orwellian double-speak. Conservatives are the ones who have thrust religion into the the forefront of political issues and debate. They can’t have it both ways. E.J. Dionne makes a good case for Roberts coming clean in his WaPo column today…
It’s also disingenuous for Republicans who have profited from the rise of issues related to religion and “moral values” to discover a sudden squeamishness about even mentioning them. Recall John Kerry’s battle during the 2004 campaign with conservative bishops who proposed to deny him Communion because of his stand on abortion rights. If there was a mass movement of Republican politicians insisting that Kerry’s religion should not be part of the public debate, I must have missed it.
Former New York governor Mario Cuomo is, like Kerry, a Catholic Democrat who has tangled with his church’s leaders on the politics of abortion. Cuomo wondered during a recent phone conversation how those bishops who tormented Kerry would react if Roberts said that his religious views would not affect his rulings on abortion cases. To defend such a stance by Roberts, Cuomo said, “the bishops who went after Kerry would have to say that it’s different for a judge, but that would be very hard to explain.” Indeed.
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