Hamlet on the Hudson Says Senate Should Ask Roberts About Faith

Another "devout" Catholic, Mario Cuomo, writes in the Los Angeles Times that the Senate Judiciary Committee should go ahead and ask Judge John Roberts about his Catholic faith:

Put a little faith in Roberts
Go ahead, ask him about his religious beliefs. As long as he puts the Constitution first, there should be no problem.

By Mario M. Cuomo
MARIO M. CUOMO was governor of New York from 1983 to 1995.

FOR MORE THAN 20 years, some conservative clerics and politicians have bitterly criticized Catholic public officials for refusing to use their office to "correct" the law of the land. They demand that Catholic officials make political decisions reflecting their religious belief that abortion is tantamount to murder and work to overturn Roe vs. Wade and other laws that make abortion legal.

Most of the targeted officials have been Democrats such as Ted Kennedy, Gerry Ferraro and John Kerry. But now that Judge John G. Roberts Jr. — their candidate — has been nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court, the shoe is on the other political foot. Conservatives are outraged that another Catholic public official might be considered deserving of the same criticism. They demand that Roberts not be asked about personal beliefs, including religious ones, because it would amount to a "religious test" prohibited by the Constitution.

They are clearly wrong.

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My Comments:
Note to Mario: FEDERAL JUDGES ARE NOT ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES. Rinse. Repeat.

The only one being disingenuous is you with your continued insistence upon comparing the role of judges like Roberts to that of elected representatives like Kennedy and Kerry.