Torquemada In America

Over the last few months I have brought up several times my love for all articles writen my Christopher Hitchens. This does not mean that I endorse any thing that he says, only that his arguments are well worth reading. A great example of that would be his article about Waugh in the Atlantic Monthely about two years ago. In all I love his style, knowledge and abrasivness, but when it comes down to content I, and I think most conservatives, part ways on everything except the War on Terror. Here is a link to his latest invective against the Church of Rome. It is like all Hitchens, fun to read but offensive in content.

His arguement is, that maybe we shouldn't let a Caholic on the Supreme Court (J.G. Roberts). And for some reason this all goes back to Cardinal Law being a neo-nazi and the new Pope being a real nazi. I am no deffender of Cardinal Law either, and I hope no one else is, but as Dante points respect is still do to these flawed tools of God's will.

On a very related topic, it is wonderful to think that there will be four Catholic Justices on our court (Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas). It is amazing to think that just seventy years ago the a Catholic could not muster enough votes in a presidential election to take any states outside of the north east. Also it is amazing that we have really put the nail in the coffin of those oh-so-superior-WASPs. Now all we need is to get Jeb Bush in the White House (he unlike his family is Catholic), Santorum to be the Senate majority leader, and Mary Anne Glendon to be the new Head Justice of the Court. Then we can start out American Inquisition (which is what we have always wanted ever since the first Catholic landed in Maryland) and burn Ted Kennedy and Nancy Polosi at the stake.