Conservatives Constantly Question Biden's Catholic Faith

With respect to President Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, one of the chief narratives conservatives have been playing in the days leading up to her nomination is that Democrats are anti-Catholic. Examples of this are Howie Carr of The Boston Herald and National Review Online's Kyle Smith. 

Yet in the midst of decrying so-called Democratic intolerance towards Justice Barrett's faith both Carr and Smith are perfectly happy to question the faith of Democrats who are Catholic. Carr describes Illinois Senator Duck Durbin as "a nominal Catholic" and a "cafeteria Catholic." For his part, Smith proclaimed:

Catholics who don’t actually seem to believe the most important stuff Catholics are supposed to believe, such as Joe Biden, are of course okay. Barrett’s Catholicism, though, is bound to be put under a microscope.

So Smith sees fit to appoint himself the arbiter of "the most important stuff Catholics are supposed to believe" and has decreed that Joe Biden is a heretic to be shunned. 

Indeed, conservatives have very little trouble referring to Biden as "a fake Catholic."  Here is yet another sample. Here too.

Now one can dismiss such views as being on the fringe. Yet it is well worth noting that Biden was denied communion at a Catholic Church in South Carolina last October. Somehow I don't recall any Republican taking the Church to task for questioning Biden's faith.

While S.E. Cupp is certainly correct to argue that Democrats ought not to call Barrett's faith into question it is disingenuous of her to pretend her fellow conservatives aren't constantly doing the same with Biden.

If Chris Wallace plans to raise Justice Barrett's faith with Biden during the Tuesday night's debate with President Trump, Biden can simply say, "I do not question Justice Barrett's Catholic faith. I feel sorry for conservatives who question my Catholic faith."