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As part of their first post-Thanksgiving show on Monday, the cast of ABC The View wallowed in some anti-Catholic bigotry. They demanded that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett recuse herself from a religious liberty case because of her Catholic faith. It was quickly expanded to all the Catholic justices with erroneous accusations that Coney Barrett had either renounced her faith, was a member of a splinter cult, and/or held the rank of “handmaid” within the hierarchy of The Catholic Church.
“Justice Amy Coney Barrett's religious faith is being called into question again,” Joy Behar proclaimed. “There were calls for her to recuse herself from a case which is about a web designer who wants to post a statement that she won't design wedding websites for same-sex couples because it's against her religious beliefs.”
Noting that Coney Barrett was a member of the People of Praise, a Catholic organization that she called “a hate group,” Behar treated the group’s adherence to Catholic teachings a serious problem and seemed to suggest beliefs such as “sex should occur only within marriage and, of course, between a man and a woman” where cultish beliefs only followed by the group.
Flaunting her ignorance, Behar seemed to be unaware that Coney Barrett was a devout Catholic, even suggesting she had renounced her faith to follow a cult.
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