Monday, September 17

Why Not a Conservative Catholic Woman?

Neil Gorsuch, a conservative Catholic from Georgetown Prep in Washington DC, has already been seated on the Court.

Why doesn't President Trump pull the Bart O'Kavanaugh nomination now, and put up Amy Coney Barrett as a candidate for the Court?  Also pro-life, she has the benefit of being a woman -- we are continually being told that women need a say in their own reproductive freedoms, while balancing the life interests of the potentially disabled.

Why stick with Kavanaugh's Jesuit sophistry when you can preach a solid Dominican education like Barrett?   He is the Washington establishment choice:  born and employed in the District.  She is from New Orleans, and has worked in Indiana in the past years...

Gender and geographic diversity.

She has 7 children, 2 adopted and one with special needs.
He and his wife have only two daughters.  Which family has the numbers to make a better basketball team? (Hell, they're a carpool unto themselves!)*

Most importantly, we won't need to ask the angels dancing on the head of a pin if it matters whether a teenage boy indulges in illegal drugs, or simply in illegal underage alcohol, which is also a drug, and was illegal in DC in the early 80s when the prep-school boy was bragging about getting to 100 kegs...

It's not too late, President Trump.
You wanted the Washington establishment and the evangelicals (and the Catholics too) to support you, but you made a poor choice.   Everyone who is anyone in Catholic circles understands that the days of the prep-school male shenanigans have passed:  the future of the Catholic Church belongs to the women;  we're told it is the only way the Church will survive and grow in the coming years...  to acknowledge her unpaid debt to the women.  And we've been questioning the special treatment given to athletes, and bullies, since Columbine...

The Kavanaugh nomination seeks to turn back the clock.
A Coney Barrett nod would be an acknowledgement that new voices are needed as we grapple with the age-old issue of equal opportunities for all in our American society.
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*  I don't make the categories.  But if you are going to brag on your family credentials, Coney Barrett has the small Kavanaugh clan beat, hands down...