The Knights of Columbus is anything but “extreme.”

To even suggest the idea is ridiculous. The KofC is a charitable organization that’s been around since the late 1800’s, boasting chapters in all 50 states and 12 countries around the globe. Its current membership sits at roughly two million, and each year it generates somewhere near 200 million dollars to help those struggling with poverty. They feed and clothe troubled families, aid children and adults in dire circumstances, and basically do good works wherever they find a need.

The Knights are, of course, Catholic. And that’s a problem for creatures like Senators Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono – both of whom appear to think membership in the Knights of Columbus is a disqualifier if you want to be a judge.

Recently, they were presented with President Trump’s nominee to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. His name is Brian C. Buescher, and he’s a member of the Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus. They had some questions for him, thanks to his supposedly ‘extreme’ religious affiliations.

A judicial nominee faced questions from Senators this month about whether membership in the Knights of Columbus might impede his ability to judge federal cases fairly. The Knights of Columbus say that no candidate for public office should have to defend his membership in a Catholic service organization. TRENDING: Mercedes Schlapp: Yes, the Economy is Bouncing Back, and Here's Why Trump's Policies are Responsible Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) raised concerns about membership in the Knights of Columbus while the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewed the candidacy of Brian C. Buescher, an Omaha-based lawyer nominated by President Trump to sit on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. Senators also asked whether belonging to the Catholic charitable organization could prevent judges from hearing cases “fairly and impartially.” In written questions sent to Buescher by committee members Dec. 5, Sen. Hirono stated that “the Knights of Columbus has taken a number of extreme positions. For example, it was reportedly one of the top contributors to California’s Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage.” Hirono then asked Buescher if he would quit the group if he was confirmed “to avoid any appearance of bias.”

You can read the exact text of the questions, and Buescher’s answers below.

Suffice it to say that the church is not on board with abortion and gay marriage, and this is a problem for Harris and Hirono. Whether you agree or not, these religious objections are central to multiple statements made by Pope Francis, who liberals just adore, over the course of the last couple of years. No one should be surprised by the fact that one of the planet’s largest religions disagrees with the Democrats on a few key issues.

However, you should be surprised that a belief in the basic tents of Catholicism – tenets shared by most Christian denominations – might be enough to disqualify you from becoming a judge.

At one point in their written interrogation, Harris and Hirono ask Buescher if he intended to “end his membership” in the Knights of Columbus to avoid accusations of impartiality. As they put it, “If confirmed, do you intend to end your membership with this organization to avoid any appearance of bias?”

The problem, obviously, is that if you’re going to ask him to denounce Knights of Columbus membership due to the most basic facts of his faith, you might as well ask him if to denounce his faith altogether. After all, the Knights don’t believe in anything that’s not a facet of the church itself. It’s a lot like the time Hillary told everyone that she welcomed the support of Christians, but they’d have to change their beliefs if they wanted to be part of her doomed movement.

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Democrats love Christians and Catholics, as long as they don’t really believe in any of the things their religion advocates. Or, put more simply, you can be a Christian as long as your’re not really a Christian.

Frankly, this is nothing more than anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, bigotry. It’s the same sort of stuff that was lobbed at John F. Kennedy back in the 60’s. Christian morality is inconvenient when it’s at odds with leftist goals, so they try to drive it away when possible. They pretend to care about faith, God, and morality but, in reality, they view faith as little more than a nuisance.

Strange, then, that they don’t apply this same religious litmus test to people like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, or Keith Ellison – all much-lauded members of a religion that really has some issues with homosexuality.

Here’s the Harris/Hirono transcript: