Sessions Goes Blank
When Asked if Secular Americans Can Understand the Concept of Truth
Of the many highlights from Sen. Jeff Sessions confirmation hearings to become our next Attorney General, perhaps the most relevant to readers of this site was the question Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asked him, in a roundabout way, about church/state separation.
A little background helps. During the Republican National Convention this past summer, Sessions criticized Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for her alleged irreligiosity:
The senator recalled one quote from Sotomayor that, he said, still makes the hair stand on my neck. He explained: She said there is no objectivity, just a series of perspectives. He suggested that the problem may be that Sotomayer [sic] and other judges arent sufficiently religious: If you have secularization in the world and dont believe in a higher being, maybe you dont believe there is any truth.