Tom McLaughlin: Getting tougher to be a Catholic

“Anti-Catholic bigotry is alive in the U.S. Senate” read the headline of a January 2019 article by Michael Gerson in The Washington Post. It’s getting tougher to be Catholic here or nearly anywhere else.

Gerson cited tough questioning of U.S. District Court Judge Brian Buescher when he was up for ratification in the U.S. Senate last year. Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Maize Hirono (D-Hawaii) believed his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men’s organization, disqualified him because the Catholic Church considers abortion sinful and homosexual acts “intrinsically disordered.”