"Devout" Catholic Pat Leahy Guilty of "Protecting Anti-Catholicism"

Holy Fool links to a commentary in the Rutland [Vermont] Herald by someone named Matthew Coffin. In said commentary, Mr. Coffin takes so-called "devout" Catholic Pat Leahy to task for his tolerance of blatant anti-Catholicism and support for "a public square devoid of religiously informed moral arguments", especially where the nomination of Judge John Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court is concerned:

Earlier this summer Senator Leahy decried the alleged desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay. He seems to have forgotten that the National Endowment for the Arts, which he ardently supports, funded an assault on Christian symbols because it was "art" protected by the First Amendment. The same politicians who tolerated the desecration of Christian icons that Catholics revere are now making an issue of Judge Roberts' impartiality in light of his Catholic faith and questioning him in ways that would be unthinkable if the nominee were Jewish.

It is a source of much consternation and great suspicion to Senator Leahy and like-minded devout Catholics in the U.S. Senate that an intelligent, articulate, eminently qualified, widely admired and respected, Roman Catholic jurist would actually agree with the teachings of the Catholic Church.