Janice Rogers Brown: Just a plain, old-fashioned bigot

Guest blogger Morbo over at The Carpetbagger, has this take on federal court nominee Janice Rogers Brown:

• Brown griped about religion being excluded from public life and claimed that deeply religious people can’t make a go of it in this heathenish secular nation. She went so far as to assert that a religious "war" is under way in America.

"It's not a shooting war, but it is a war……," Brown said. "These are perilous times for people of faith, not in the sense that we are going to lose our lives, but in the sense that it will cost you something if you are a person of faith who stands up for what you believe in and say those things out loud."

• I am just flat-out tired of claims like this, which are on their face absurd. George W. Bush talks about religion all of the time —— and you might say he has done pretty well for himself. He is president, after all. This country is soaked with religion. Far from being afraid to talk about faith, most politicians won't shut up about it. Even Democrats are getting religion these days.

I agree wholeheartedly with Morbo, and I detailed my concerns about the religiosity of America here. This unfounded concentration on the few rejected nominees of Dumbya's and the "nukyouler" option to stop the threat of a filibuster, labeling it a faith based reaction, makes me want to puke.