{"id":4429,"date":"2005-08-04T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T23:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/invincible-ignorance.html"},"modified":"2005-08-04T23:09:18","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T23:09:18","slug":"invincible-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/invincible-ignorance.html","title":{"rendered":"Invincible Ignorance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A WSJ piece wonders about journalists and the Constitution<\/a><\/p>\n

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John Roberts will be the fourth Roman Catholic on the current Supreme Court, but only the 10th Catholic among the 109 justices who’ve served in the high court’s 215-year history. A few senators and a good many journalists have made much of it. <\/p>\n

Earlier this week, in a span of minutes, three journalists asked me to respond to liberals, like Sen. Richard Durbin (D., Ill.), raising Judge Roberts’s religion as a confirmation issue. As if there were a Republican talking point in my hand, they each asked in similar words: "What’s the line on that?" Minutes before penning this column, a fourth prominent political reporter startled me further by asking: "What religion test clause? Where does that appear?" <\/p>\n

Well, here, everyone jot this down. "The line" appears in Article VI of the U.S. Constitution: "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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