i am an atheist and am usually very prickly about this sort of thing but i'm sorry this is actually not particularly bad in context slate.com/news-and-polit…
the question came up in an exchange about the nominee having tweeted that, basically, men only pass abortion restrictions to control women. kennedy was trying to say that he actually opposes abortion because of his religious beliefs
but because this is in the structural context of senators asking the nominee questions. so it went like "so, hey, do you believe in god? because i believe in god and that means blah blah blah"
like, kennedy is bad, legal abortion is good, most religious beliefs about abortion are in fact rooted in patriarchy, but the headline makes you think there was a whole line of questioning about whether the nominee is a god-fearing man and that's just not what happened
also if i'm gonna be REALLY snotty a senator asking a nominee abt his religious beliefs doesn't vioate the "no religious text" clause any more than asking someone if they're vaccinated violates HIPAA
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