The liberal inquisitors of secular religion
Intemperate attacks on believers in public life exude a whiff of cultural panic
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Declaration of Independence; John Trumbull, 1819
The attacks on the US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are obviously motivated principally by the Democrats’ terror of a 6-3 conservative majority on the bench, and the related visceral fear among liberal American voters that she would reverse the permissive landmark abortion case of Roe v Wade.
The …
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