Soon, we’re going to have Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Kamala Harris questioning Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett as to whether or not she’s fit to be confirmed as a supreme court judge.   It’s going to be like a scene from the Wizard of Oz:   Sweet  Dorothy from Kansas pitted against the Wicked Witch of the West.  Get ready for a case of the sinner vs. the  saint,  

Amy Coney  Barrett is  mother of seven children–including two adopted black children, and  one  child with Downs Syndrome.  She’s been married to the same man for eighteen  years.  In contrast, when former San Francisco prosecutor Kamala Harris was twenty nine, she  hooked up with an influential  married man thirty  years her senior who helped her get ahead in politics.   Recently married, she has no children, only step children.

This is what then Democratic presidential candidate, Rep  Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii,  had to say about  Kamala Harris. :

As attorney general of California, “She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations, and then laughed about it when she was asked if she’d ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence that would have freed a man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.”

Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett was voted most popular professor on three different occasions at the University of Notre Dame.  During her confirmation hearing in March of 2017,  a group of 450 former students signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, telling senators that their support was “driven not by politics, but by the belief that Professor Barrett is supremely qualified.” She also she had the unanimous support of her 49 Notre Dame colleagues, who wrote that they had a “wide range of political views” but were “united however in our judgment about Amy.”

The contrast between the two women couldn’t be more stark.  Kamala sashays around in a form fitting pants suit, while Amy  is seen holding a small child’s hand,  walking to the podium in a modest dress.

I have a  problem with Amy Barrett’s stance on abortion,  but it’s not a deal breaker.  This week in my city,   a beautiful, seven year old   boy was  murdered by his father with a  belt.  No unwanted child should be brought into this world, only to be tortured and killed.  This is why I am pro choice.  And I don’t think Roe vs. Wade will ever be repealed.

Nevertheless, we’ll soon have a ringside seat to an interaction between two very different women.. It will be interesting to see who prevails. The saint or the sinner?.