Once again, a United States senator asked a nominee for public office a question about personal religious practice, despite the clear prohibition of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution. This time the questioner was Sen. Lindsay Graham, R.-S.C., and the setting was last week’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Ironically, while pressing Jackson about her faith and her church attendance, the conservative evangelical senator admitted that he attends his own Southern Baptist church only about three times a year. Graham began his questioning with this: “What faith are you, by the way?” He later asked: “On a scale of 1 to 10, how faithful would you say you are?” Then he asked: “Do you attend church regularly?” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) questions U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 23, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Still not through with the religion theme, he continued: “Could you fairly judge a Catholic?” Graham is not himself a Catholic; he’s reported to be a member of Corinth Baptist Church, in Seneca, S.C. The senator is a […]
