{"id":1487,"date":"2005-10-07T00:52:36","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T00:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/faith-based-hypocrisy.html"},"modified":"2005-10-07T00:52:36","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T00:52:36","slug":"faith-based-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/faith-based-hypocrisy.html","title":{"rendered":"Faith-Based Hypocrisy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

E.J. Dionne today:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now we know: President Bush’s supporters are prepared to be thoroughly hypocritical when it comes to religion. They’ll play religion up or down, whichever helps them most in a political fight.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Bush named John Roberts to the Supreme Court, a few Democrats, including Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), suggested that the nominee might reasonably be questioned about the impact of his religious faith on his decisions as a justice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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Durbin had his head taken off. "We have no religious tests for public office in this country," thundered Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), insisting that any inquiry about a potential judge’s religious views was "offensive." Fidelis, a conservative Catholic group, declared that "Roberts’ religious faith and how he lives that faith as an individual has no bearing and no place in the confirmation process."<\/p>\n

But now that Harriet Miers, Bush’s latest Supreme Court nominee, is in trouble with conservatives, her religious faith and how she lives that faith are becoming central to the case being made for her by the administration and its supporters. Miers has almost no public record. Don’t worry, the administration’s allies are telling their friends on the right, she’s an evangelical Christian<\/em> .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Column includes weird, mystery-laden Dobson quote. <\/p>\n

He has a point, although I don’t think all of the same parties are making the same arguments.  That is, are the same "supporters" doing all of this defending in both cases? To his credit, Dionne cites conservative opposition to the nomination, and quotes the Captains’ Quarters blogger to that effect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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