The United States Constitution is derived from Enlightenment philosophy and enshrines the separation of Church and State; these are facts which should be known and understood by anyone with an 8th grade education.

Yikes!

I can’t read the article but the headline is yikes indeed.

Also, he should step down bc of conflict of interest (church/state and all that)

/wishful thinking

One thing I read about the founding of our country gave me pause: if it had happened 20 years earlier or 20 years later, it would have been more theocratic.

Interesting that Roberts dealt with the same film maker impersonating a conservative. Instead of pandering, he pushed back.

I agree, it was good to hear Roberts' responses. But I'm interested in your choice of the word "pandering," P*D. To me, pandering refers to telling someone what they want to hear in order to get something of benefit to you, even if that benefit is only to shut them up. But I don't think Alito was pandering. I think he truly believes that carp. It was a meeting of the minds, no pandering involved.

I have no evidence to tell me whether or not Alito truly wants an American theocracy, overturning the Constitution to do it. He may very well harbor that view, but I really don't know. On the other hand, psychologically, it's really easy to imagine telling someone in his own ideological camp what they seemed to want to hear in that kind of chit chat situation.

So that's what I presumed in order to contrast it with the principled stand that Roberts took. Roberts took the hard path of decency and honesty, even if that offended a fellow Republican "conservative."

Agree. Perhaps I'm conflating religion with conservative "values." If so, I'm hardly the first to do that.

I live amongst Southern Baptists many of whom home school their kids.

Culture shock.

Whoa.

On a more serious note, if a person doesn't understand the Bill of Rights (let alone a Supreme Court Justice), specifically the separation of Church and State, then a person has lost the plot concerning freedom of thought, belief, and conscience.

Scary.