Kamala Harris' 'religious bigotry' issue: 2024 hopeful's anti-Catholic comments resurface as her self-proclaimed Baptist faith undergoes test

Roman Catholics are reviving their grievances against Vice President Kamala Harris aft Democrats rallied to her support to switch Catholic President Joe Biden arsenic nan 2024 statesmanlike nominee.

'Kamala Harris hates what we believe,' CatholicVote President Brian Burch said successful a connection this week, recalling her 2018 attacks against a Catholic judge. 

At nan time, Harris leveled respective written questions to Brian Buescher, a nominee for nan judgeship for nan U.S. District Court for nan District of Nebraska, questioning his rank successful nan Knights of Columbus, a celebrated parish Catholic fraternal kindness group pinch complete 2 cardinal members.

Harris referred to nan Catholic group arsenic 'an all-male nine comprised chiefly of Catholic men' and questioned its beliefs opposing abortion and aforesaid activity marriage.

Primarily, Harris questioned whether his rank successful nan group would let him to norm impartially connected those issues successful court. 

Buescher replied patiently that his rank successful his parish group would not impact his rulings

That was a measurement excessively acold for astir Catholics, who described Harris' questions arsenic posing an unconstitutional 'religious test' to service a position successful nan legislative branch of government.

At this time, Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska reacted sharply by introducing a Senate solution that specifically said that disqualifying a nominee to nan courts connected nan ground of rank successful nan Knights of Columbus violated nan Constitution. The solution passed unanimously.

But Catholics did not forget.  

The rumor was brought up during nan 2020 run by erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence successful his statement pinch Harris, arsenic he accused her of attacking a judicial nominee because of his Catholic faith.

Harris responded pinch incredulity, describing herself arsenic a personification of religion who recovered it 'insulting' to propose she would onslaught anyone for their faith.

Catholic activists now reason Harris is unfit for nan presidency, citing her efforts successful nan Senate. 

'Not only is this a gross shape of anti-religious bigotry, it's besides unconstitutional,' Burch said. 

Harris' apt information arsenic nan caller statesmanlike campaigner puts her religion into nan spotlight. 

While Joe Biden claims to beryllium a practicing Catholic and attends Mass weekly, Harris does not be nationalist religion services regularly.

Harris describes herself arsenic a Baptist, arsenic she recalls increasing up and attending nan 23rd Avenue Church of God successful Oakland California pinch Regina Shelton, a family friend she describes arsenic her 'second mother,' pinch beardown connections to nan achromatic South.

She said astir her religion during a 2022 sojourn to the National Baptist Convention successful Houston.  

'Faith teaches america that a brighter early is ever up and we must support moving guardant to recognize that future,' she said. 'And to move forward, simply put, I besides learned and we each know: Faith requires action.' 

Harris' Indian mother Shymala Gopalan Harris described Harris arsenic attending nan Hindu temple successful San Francisco.

'She performs each rituals and says each prayers astatine nan temple,' she said proudly to an Indian news outlet successful 2004.

Today, Harris is simply a personnel of nan Third Baptist Church of San Francisco.

Her hubby Doug Emhoff is Jewish, and nan mates publically celebrates Jewish holidays together.

Harris still offers a motion to her Hindu heritage, however, celebrating nan Indian vacation of Diwali astatine nan White House.