Bashing Christianity to protect what?

U.S. Dianne Feinstein's opening statement in today's SJC hearings on John Roberts have already drawn condemnation from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, and properly so. But Catholics are not the only Christians at which she swings; it just so happens that Roberts is Catholic, so he's priority number one.

What is appalling is that Feinstein plays the Holocaust card in bashing Robert's Christianity, but does so in the interest of protecting the abortion industry. Look at what she says are among the big issues in the coming Supreme Court session:

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the standard of review for abortion cases, and the health of the mother;

the constitutionality of an Oregon law which permits physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill but legally competent individuals; and

whether two oil industry leaders and competitors can be allowed to work together to fix the price of gas once they've entered into a joint venture;

the rights of enemy combatants;

the so-called partial birth abortion law; and

whether Congress has the authority to protect our nation's environment through legislation.

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Of the six, two are about abortion and one on euthanasia. Feinstein is clearly worried about protecting the Culture of Death in America, but she has the nerve to say this:

For centuries, individuals have been persecuted for their religious beliefs.

During the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and even today, millions of innocent people have been killed or tortured because of their religion.

A week ago, I was walking up the Danube River in Budapest when I saw on the shore 60 pairs of shoes covered in copper -- women's shoes, men's shoes, small tiny children's shoes. They lined the bank of the river.

During World War II, Hungarian fascists and Nazi soldiers forced thousands of Jews, including men, women and children, to remove their shoes before shooting them and letting their bodies float down the Danube.

These shoes represent a powerful symbol of how religion has been used in catastrophic ways historically.

Sadly, the shoes that Feinstein does not see are the baby booties that will never be worn because the unborn children will never see the light of day. In her zeal to protect the rights of women to kill off their unwanted children, she has the gall to declare the abortionists' solidarity with the victims of the Nazi Holocaust, as if there were a moral equivalence.

She makes herself unmistakably clear:

I'm concerned by a trend on the Court to limit this right and thereby to curtail the autonomy that we have fought for and achieved; in this case, over just simply controlling our own reproductive system rather than having some politicians do it for us.

It would be very difficult -- and I said this to you privately and I said it publicly -- for me to vote to confirm someone whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade, because I remember -- and many of the young women here don't -- what it was like when abortion was illegal in America.

Feinstein is not protecting freedom of religion. She is promoting freedom from religion. She is not advancing the cause of Judaism, which would be a noble undertaking; she is working for the ancient enemy who opposes all of God's children, born and unborn.