Opinion | Amy Coney Barrett and the New, Old Anti-Catholicism – The New York Times

But Catholic institutions are another story: It is in their fortunes that Locke s suspicions have proven most prescient. Roman Catholic schools have warred bitterly over their exemption from anti-discrimination employment statutes, scoring a win in a case argued before the Supreme Court as recently as this summer. Catholic hospitals have found themselves embroiled in court battles for refusing to perform or even discuss abortions, regardless of state or federal law. And, perhaps most famously, the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Catholic nuns that operates nursing homes for low-income seniors, fought the Affordable Care Act s contraception mandate all the way to the Supreme Court, and won.

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So Locke was right after all! At least in his extreme and notorious anti-Catholicism. You really have to hand it to the NYT. They will dig up anybody to get to their point.