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Putting five conservative Catholics on SCOTUS was an extremely bad idea. They are forcing their minority religious views onto the rest of us. Religious freedom only for conservative Christians but no one else. If they recognize "fetal personhood" then we have moved into full-on Christo-fascist territory and expanding the Court is the only option.

Didn't our Founding Fathers demand a separation of church and state because they had seen what the papists did to Europe?[/quote]

Not necessarily limited to papists but the Founding Fathers---especially Jefferson, who authored the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom---did not want a state religion.  And up until the latter half of the 20th century---there was a good deal of anti-Catholic prejudice in the United States because of a belief that Catholics were doctrinally obligated to take their marching orders from Rome.  It was a big concern when Kennedy was elected.   Post Kennedy's election, those views had by and large been dismissed as anti-Catholic religious prejudice.  
[b]But now, with the Dobbs decision and the periodic attempts by the most conservative bishops in the Catholic Church to punish Catholic politicians like Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi who refuse to fall in line on this issue, I don't necessarily think those long-ago fears were completely unfounded.  [/b]And the evangelical fundamentalists have embraced the pro-life agenda because of a combination of white supremacy (no abortions in southern states means more white babies) and subjugation of women.   The Southern Baptists did not protest Roe v. Wade and indeed had no position on abortion until the early 1980s, when the fundamentalist faction staged a coup and took over the Southern Baptist convention.  But all the Evangelicals and all the Catholics still comprise less than 50% of the Christians in the US.  Add to that all the non-Christian religions who believe that abortion should not be limited until after the first 15 weeks (e.g.,, Jews, Muslims) and the tyranny by the religious minority is even clearer.[/quote]

They are completely unfounded because even though the US Bishops may have tried to "punish" them, Rome supports them.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108548298/pelosi-vatican-communion-abortion-rights[/quote]

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