Just hours after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week, Mitch McConnell announced his intention to swiftly confirm a nominee to fill her seat.

And so the rush began.

Mitt Romney has announced he will not oppose a vote on President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

Meantime, many on the left furious with Republicans' plan to fill the now

vacant Supreme Court seat. Trump has said his pick will be a woman and among the frontrunners

is Amy Coney Barrett, Notre Dame Law Professor, now a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals

for the Seventh Circuit. Her record is troubling to many Democrats. Should courts halt the deportation of an immigrant who faces torture at home?

Should they shield prisoners from unjustified violence by correctional officers?

Should women be permitted to obtain an abortion upon discovering a severe fetal abnormality. According to Mark

Joseph Stern of Slate, Barrett said no to all of the above. But instead of pouring over her

judicial record, many of Barrett's critics have taken to finding fault with her faith. It's a replay of sorts of her confirmation hearing

for her appeals court seat in 2017. You have a long history of believing that your religious beliefs

should prevail. The dogma lives loudly within you, and that's of concern. Do you consider yourself an

Orthodox Catholic? If you're asking whether I take my faith seriously and I'm a faithful Catholic,

I am, although I would stress that my personal church affiliation or my religious belief would not

bear on the discharge of my duties as a judge.

What conservative Catholics saw as an attack on their faith soon became a rallying cry.

You can now buy t-shirts that read,

The Dogma lives loudly within me.

And now in 2020, the media have gotten wind again that Barrett belongs to a faith community called People of Praise, and they've run with it.

There's no telling if she'll end up the nominee, but either way, she'll be remembered for inspiring some particularly bad takes on religion.

Let's start with the first mistake the press is made in its coverage of Barrett. How did Newsweek get the idea that her faith group, called

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