Religious Pluralism is Dead in California

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Gavin Newsom wasted no time attacking Judge Amy Coney Barrett yesterday. But the Governorโ€™s attacks are nothing compared to those of our senior U.S. Senator, Dianne Feinstein.

In 2017, Feinstein tried to use Barrettโ€™s Catholic faith against her in one of the ugliest attacks in modern American politics. At the time, I wrote Feinstein a letter signed by 25 California Legislators, asking that she apologize and provide assurance that future nominees would not face similar prejudice.

You can read my letter to Feinstein here.

As to Feinstein suggestion that Barrettโ€™s Catholic faith would disqualify her from being a fair-minded judge, my letter said this accusation was โ€œalarming, and without precedent in our recent history.โ€

The letter continued: โ€œYour comments are offensive to fundamental American principles: freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, and the separation of church and state. They profoundly misunderstand what it means to be a person of faith.โ€

Incredibly, Californiaโ€™s other U.S. Senator, Kamala Harris, then attacked another judicial nomineeโ€™s Catholic religious affiliation.

In response, I introduced Assembly Joint Resolution 12, which โ€œcondemns any attempt to disqualify an individual for public office on the basis of that individualโ€™s religious beliefs and affirms that a religious test is a violation of the United States Constitution.โ€

At the federal level, a similar resolution passed unanimously. But Californiaโ€™s rarefied Legislature wouldnโ€™t even vote on it.

Nevertheless, I hope that in the coming weeks, our U.S. Senators will remember that religious liberty is Americaโ€™s first principle, and that religious pluralism is at the heart of Californiaโ€™s identity as a state.

Byย Kevin Kiley California Legislator

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