Hugh Hewitt is challenging the anti-Catholicism among liberal Democrats who are promising to filibuster William Pryor, even from some who are themselves Catholic. He's right This is a symptom of Satanic logic. Hear me out.

You don't have to believe in the existence of the devil to understand his logic. It is antilogic with a goal on leading away from truth rather than toward it. The modern appeals to "separation of church and state" is a prime example. The Constitution doesn't use that phrase; it promises freedom of religion and against establishment of religion. It is apparent what the framers meant by this pair of rights if we read just a modicum of history. They didn't mean that references to a creator or non-denominational prayers were to be outlawed, only that government authority was not to be legally linked to any particular church. They were very aware of the evil that had been done in the name of God when earthly power was placed in the hands of "religious" leaders, particularly in Europe and in Great Britain. They also knew that many of the founders of the American colonies had come here seeking freedom to worship and would never support a constitution that didn't guarantee that freedom. The implication of this was that tolerance was necessary, and there's the rub.

Tolerance is a concept, like bipartisanship, that is often invoked by people who don't practice it. Atheists want to veto prayer or recognition of religious traditions in public places, all in the name of tolerance. But freedom doesn't mean that one person gets to deny everybody else their own freedoms. Neither does it mean that things like drug abuse, profanity and pornography are protected by law, or that Scientology should be tax exempt. What it means is that those who contribute to society get to vote on what kind of society they want, with a few exceptions that are intended to prevent the tyranny of the few by the many. By tyranny, I mean things like Jim Crow laws, lynchings, the mobbing of Mormons, and so forth, but those are far different things from homosexuality in the media, drugs, dirty jokes and oral sex in the Oval Office.