KAMALA HARRIS FOOT IN MOUTH MOMENT (ALREADY)
The far-left junior Senator. From California who has been widely touted as a “top tier” Democrat candidate for president has just about cut her self out of a position on the list of potential Democrat nominees. She accomplished this with a now infamous December 2018 letter establishing her anti-Catholic bias even before her name recognition grew to a level close to that of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (she of the 0.09% Cherokee Nation). Perhaps President Trump may even coin an appropriate sobriquet for a Catholic hater.
In December of 2018, Senator Harris as a member of the Judiciary Committee questioned Nebraska District Court nominee Brian C. Buescher who was nominated for that seat by President Trump on November 3, 2018. Harris and Senator Marie Hirano (D. Hawaii) submitted written questions on December 4, 2018 targeting Buescher’s membership in the Knight’s of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization. (See “Kamala Harris’ Dark Knights” editorial board, WSJ 1-2-19)
The Knights of Columbus, founded in 1882 in New Haven Connecticut, and at almost 2 million members is the world’s largest Catholic, fraternal service organization. The Knights support Catholic education and the Church’s political and social policy views. Attacking the Kof C’s social and political positions was a sneaky back door swipe at the Catholic Church and the beliefs of its members.
Harris described the Knights as “an all male society”, adding that it held a position opposing a “woman’s right to choose” (an abortion), and that it denied “marriage equality” (opposed same sex marriage). In the same letter signed by the two US Senators, Hirano called the Knight’s views on marriage “extreme” and asked Buescher if he would resign from the group to “avoid the appearance of bias”. Buecher rightly responded that he would not make his judicial decisions on the basis of the Knight’s social or political views.
But the written questions submitted by Senators Harris and Hirano rather than smearing the K of C as out of the mainstream—-established the extreme political positions and bias of the Senatorial questioners (one of whom is putting herself forward as a potential presidential nominee). It also made clear Harris’ apparent ignorance of the Constitution’s First Amendment, which guarantees the right to religious freedom of its citizenry. And prohibits her and those of her ilk from attempting to establish a religious based litmus test for a seat on the Court.
Apparently Senator Harris would not confirm former President John F Kennedy, who was a member of the Knights, or Joe Biden who is a practicing Catholic (was reportedly also a Knight up to about 2008) the first Catholic VP—- or the 73 million Americans who profess Catholicism and who regularly vote in our nation’s elections. By poking Catholics in the eye Senator Harris has alienated a 23 % bloc of the US national population. Not a good idea in a nation wide election.
Senator Harris can spew her hatred and disdain for Catholics and those who hold more traditional views about family and gender-identity, and those who are morally opposed to taking the life of the unborn, in her home state of California. She can try to curry favor with the minority of socialists, abort-death-politicians, and fringe far-left progressives with such statements...but she has sealed her fate with the vast majority of Christian Americans, both Catholic and Protestant, as a potential national candidate. Her blatant letters that establishes her anti-Catholic stance makes it “over for her”.
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