The Truth About the Catholic Takeover of the United States

Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett to join the Supreme Court, a seat she is likely to hold until 2050. With her appointment to replace Ginsburg, the Supreme Court will be 67% Catholic in a country that is 20% Catholic.

When he was running for president in 1960, John Kennedy had to assure interviewers in a country founded by Protestants that even though he would be the nation's first Catholic president, he would not follow orders from the Pope.

Like conservative Republicans, I don't want this country run by Sharia Law. Unlike conservative Republicans, I also don't want this country run by the Pope's pronouncements.

Different religious groups within the US have different beliefs about the point at which sperm and egg gain the rights of a newborn. Soon, that variation in belief will disappear, instead dictated by the pope's teachings.

Marco Rubio and other conservative Republicans are arguing that a protest of this fact is an attack on Catholics and that your religion could be next. Of course he knows better. Joe Biden is Catholic. This is not a difference between Catholics and Protestants and Jews and atheists. This is a difference between people who struggle to live by their own religious beliefs and those who struggle to make you live by their religious beliefs. Religious conservatives are not uniquely religious; they are unique in their belief that their private convictions should be public law. Sonia Sotomayor is Catholic and she isn't intent on imposing the Pope's beliefs on others. And as you can see in the graph here, American Catholics are split as to whether they believe abortion should be legal. There is nothing about being Catholic that also means you want others to live by your beliefs.

Real Americans really don't care if you are Catholic or Muslim or Buddhist or Presbyterian or an atheist or get all your religious philosophy from CS Lewis or JK Rowling. This country has welcomed Catholic immigrants from Mexico, Ireland and Italy for centuries, and these Americans are as real as any of us. What makes you a real American is not your religious belief but whether you think your religious beliefs should be made law for others. Real Americans do care that you are moral. And they do care that you don't force your religious beliefs on your fellow Americans. Religious conservatives think you're disrespecting their religious beliefs if you won't let them make those beliefs law; they think that forcing religious beliefs on others is the whole point of political power. Of all the religious beliefs out there, this may be the weirdest - even if it does date back to the Dark Ages.

 https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/views-about-abortion/