A new poll by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy reveals that just 30 percent of registered voters believe Supreme Court nominees should be asked about their religious beliefs. Of the remaining 70 percent, 62 percent believe they should not, and 8 percent are undecided. First Liberty shared this poll with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham in a memo.

This comes on the heels of the Supreme Court hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, where Democrats grilled her for her affiliation with an Indiana Christian school that upholds the Biblical definition of marriage, The Christian Post reports.

According to The Christian Post, this is the first in at least ten different occasions they have grilled President Trump’s judicial nominees over religion.

In the memo to Lindsey Graham, First Liberty states that “Questions directed at the religious beliefs of past nominees—including Judge Barrett—have been concerning to many Americans, including us. In nearly every other employment context, asking questions concerning an applicant’s religious beliefs would be an employment law violation.”

According to the intro to the poll written by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, 1,000 registered voters were asked the question in addition to whether they were likely to vote. They all claimed they were likely voters. The margin of error for the poll was 3.2 percent at 95 percent confidence, meaning as…

In a series of tweets on Monday, Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) rebuked Republicans for using matters of faith “as an excuse to advance bigotry and barbarism.”

According to The Blaze, Ocasio-Cortez made the accusation after the first day of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing, where several Republican Senators defended Barrett’s Catholic faith against attacks of “religious bigotry” from the left.

Conversely, Democratic Senators warned that if Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court, Republicans would have the ability to push far-right policies, such as overturning Roe V. Wade, in the name of religious freedom.

Despite defending Barrett’s faith, Ocasio-Cortez proceeded to accuse GOP members of religious hypocrisy, claiming that they would reject Jesus if he appeared before Congress today to present His teachings.

“Sick and tired of Republicans who co-opt faith as an excuse to advance bigotry and barbarism,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “Fact is, if today Christ himself came to the floor of Congress and repeated his teachings, many would malign him as a radical and eject him from the chamber.”

Sick and tired of Republicans who co-opt faith as an excuse to advance bigotry and barbarism.

Fact is, if today Christ himself came to the floor of Congress and repeated his teachings, many would malign him…

America’s courts have a limited role in society and are not intended to “right every wrong,” Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett said Monday during her opening statement to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Courts have a vital responsibility to enforce the rule of law, which is critical to a free society,” Barrett said. “But courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life. The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the people. The public should not expect courts to do so, and courts should not try. That is the approach I have strived to follow as a judge on the Seventh Circuit.”

President Trump nominated Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who served 27 years on the court and died Sept. 18. If confirmed, Barrett would be the fifth woman to serve on the high court, but the first mother of school-age children to serve.

She thanked Americans for their encouragement and prayers.

Barrett, 48, was confirmed to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017 after serving as a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. She and her husband, Jesse, have seven children.

“In every case, I have carefully considered the arguments presented by the parties, discussed the issues with my colleagues on the court, and done my…

Bethel Church-affiliated Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, located in the small California county of Shasta, reportedly has 123 positive cases of coronavirus among its students and faculty.

The county has received a grand total of 1,158 cases since March. The latest spike hit 500 confirmed cases, of which the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry has 123. The school has advised all faculty and staff who may have come into contact with the students with confirmed cases to quarantine at home to help mitigate the spread to others.

According to the Associated Press, the county is facing “a new level of regulations on restaurants, bars, theaters and businesses” as a response to the case spikes. The school has also begun to shift to online teaching and has cancelled its in-person church services for October 4th and 11th, which would have been held outside.

According to statements given to the Redding Record Searchlight, “Bethel has said its School of Supernatural Ministry accepted fewer students for its 2020-2021 academic school year and will be operating at 70 percent capacity due to the coronavirus pandemic — from 2,300 students last year to 1,600 this year.”

While some have predicted that the lockdowns and restrictions have been lifesaving, others have determined that the restrictions have cause the pandemic to last longer than it would have if states had…

A federal judge handed a Washington, D.C. church a major religious liberty victory Friday, ruling it could gather outdoors for worship services during the pandemic in spite of city restrictions.

At issue were restrictions by the city and Mayor Muriel Bowser that ban religious gatherings larger than 100 individuals, even if they are held outside. 

Capitol Hill Baptist Church (CHBC), which had around 1,000 attendees each Sunday prior to the pandemic, sued the city and asserted the restrictions violated its rights under the U.S. Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a 1993 law. Its pastor is Mark Dever, a well-known author and speaker. 

The congregation asked District Judge Trevor McFadden to allow it to gather outside its building, provided it practices social distancing and uses masks. McFadden agreed.  

“The District’s current restrictions substantially burden the Church’s exercise of religion. More, the District has failed to offer evidence at this stage showing that it has a compelling interest in preventing the Church from meeting outdoors with appropriate precautions, or that this prohibition is the least-restrictive means to achieve its interest,” McFadden wrote in a 26-page opinion in issuing a preliminary injunction. The congregation likely will succeed in its suit, he wrote. 

The church would have faced fines of $1,000 per violation if it…

Friar Travis Clark, a 37-year-old priest of Sts. Peter and Paul in Pearl River in New Orleans, was removed from his position after filming himself having sex with two dominatrix women on a church altar, The Christian Post reports.

The Archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, condemned him in a statement uploaded to YouTube.

In his statement, which also makes mention of another priest, Pat Wattigny, who was removed from his post for a different reason, Aymond describes Clark’s act as “demonic,” stating, “What has happened concerning Pat Wattigny and Travis Clark is unacceptable, it’s sinful, and it cannot be tolerated.” He also went on to say, “Let me be clear. Both were removed from ministry immediately and will never serve again in Catholic ministry.”

Reportedly, Travis Clark, with two sex workers, outfitted the church’s altar with stage lighting in order to record themselves being intimate with one another. While the shooting was happening, a local passerby saw the lights, alerted the police and, upon looking in the window, witnessed the sex act. 

According to Nola.com, the two women who performed the sex act with the priest, Mindy Dixon and Melissa Cheng, were both dominatrixes and one was a porn star. Mindy Dixon made a tweet stating she was going to “defile a house of God,” Nola reports. All three of them were arrested on obscenity charges because…

During a rally on Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence defended Judge Amy Coney Barrett prior to her confirmation hearings on Monday in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

According to Fox News, Pence reminded attendees at The Villages retirement community in Sumter County, Florida of when several Democratic Senators grilled Barrett for her Catholic faith during her Court of Appeals hearing back in 2017.

“The American people expect Democrats in the Senate to give Judge Barrett a dignified hearing, this time,” Pence said. “But we have reason to be concerned.”

The Vice President proceeded to bring up California Senator Diane Feinstein, who at the time told Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly in you.”

“Well, I’ve got news for the Democrats and their friends in Hollywood – the dogma lives loudly in me,” Pence said as the crowd cheered.

“The dogma lives loudly in you, and the right to live and work and worship according to dictates of our conscience, lives loudly in the Constitution of the United States of America,” he asserted.

Should Barrett be confirmed before the 2020 presidential election, several congressional Democrats threatened to pack the Supreme Court, which would expand the number of justices.

Pence criticized the move as “the biggest power grab in American history.”

Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden, however, accused the…

Republican senators during the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Monday defended Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s Catholic faith and said she had been a victim of “religious bigotry” in recent days.

The comments from GOP Sens. Ben Sasse (Neb.), Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Joni Ernst (Iowa) came amidst a media infatuation with Barrett’s membership in a Christian community, People of Faith, and a spotlight on her devout Catholic beliefs as a former professor at the University of Notre Dame. In 2017, when Barrett was confirmed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif) famously told Barrett, “The dogma lives loudly within you.”

President Trump nominated Barrett to fill the seat held by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

“Whatever you or I or Judge Barrett believe about God isn’t any of the government’s business,” Sasse said.

Religious liberty, he said, “is the default assumption of our entire system.”

“We don’t have religious tests,” Sasse said. “This committee isn’t in the business of deciding whether the dogma lives too loudly within someone. This committee isn’t in the business of deciding which religious beliefs are good and which religious beliefs are bad, and which religious beliefs are weird.

“And I just want to say, as somebody who’s self-consciously a Christian, we’ve got a whole…