Judge Janice warns: “Perilous times for people of faith …”

By all means, let’s give this lady a job on a federal appeals court.

Just days after a bitterly divided Senate committee voted along party lines to approve her nomination as a federal appellate court judge, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown told an audience Sunday that people of faith were embroiled in a “war” against secular humanists who threatened to divorce America from its religious roots, according to a newspaper account of the speech.

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“These are perilous times for people of faith,” she said, “not in the sense that we are going to lose our lives, but in the sense that it will cost you something if you are a person of faith who stands up for what you believe in and say those things out loud.”

Of course that’s largely rubbish: most public purveyors of the One True Faith are doing quite well by it. I’d argue, though, that in the case of an appeals court judge, publicly held religious paranoia should “cost you something”: your job.