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Did you know that Anti-Catholic bigotry is now straight up okey-dokey in the U.S. Senate? \u00a0When President Donald Trump nominated\u00a0Notre Dame law school professor Amy Barrett to serve on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, she was grilled by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) and Senator Dick Durbin (D., Ill.). \u00a0Their un-Constitutional line of questioning suggested Barrett\u2019s Catholic faith should\u00a0disqualify her from the position.<\/span><\/p>\n Feinstein said, \u201cWhen you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. And that\u2019s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for for years in this country.\u201d \u00a0Then, unafraid to put too fine a point on it, she asked, \u201cDo you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?\u201d<\/p>\n It didn\u2019t take a theologian to surmise that\u00a0Feinstein\u2019s view of \u201corthodox\u201d was not complimentary. \u00a0A new ad from the Judicial Crisis Network reveals this bigotry:<\/p>\n The Judicial Crisis Network has made a six-figure ad buy taking aim at Feinstein and Sen. Dick Durbin\u2019s (D., Ill.) questioning of Notre Dame law school professor Amy Barrett regarding her Catholic faith. The ad, which is called\u00a0Catholics Need Not Apply<\/a>, focuses on Durbin asking Barrett, a married mother of seven, if she considered herself an \u201corthodox Catholic\u201d and Feinstein objecting to her nomination by saying, \u201cthe dogma lives loudly within you.\u201d<\/p>\n The JCN says both lines of questioning reflect anti-Catholic bigotry.<\/p>\n \u201cLiberal Democrats attacking Amy Coney Barrett, a judicial nominee with sterling credentials and bipartisan support just for being Catholic,\u201d the\u00a0ad says<\/a>. \u201cThe message from Senate Democrats: Catholics need not apply.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n If you thought we got past all that \u201creligious litmus test\u201d in the Kennedy days, you are sorely wrong.\u00a0 \u00a0Ironically, the Democrats \u2014 the party of John F. Kennedy \u2014 are keeping it alive and well.<\/span><\/p>\n These days, Democrats believe<\/span>\u00a0any flavor of Christianity is bad, and open for public abuse and derision.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n These are the New Fascists Democrats.<\/p>\n Watch the powerful video below:<\/p>\n