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'Outrageous Example of Political Theater': 4 Conservative Christian Leaders React to Kavanaugh Hearing Opposition

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President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, Albert Mohler.
President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, Albert Mohler. | (Photo: Facebook/Albert Mohler)

Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, weighed in on the hearing in an episode of his podcast "The Briefing" that aired Wednesday.

Mohler believed that the incidents and rhetoric at the hearing showed that "the politicization of this entire process has reached points that not only the framers of the Constitution could not have imagined but even members ... of the Supreme Court or of the United States Senate could not have considered just a matter of perhaps a decade or so ago."

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"Because the way that game is played is that those on the Republican side are going to try to offer opportunities for Judge Kavanaugh to speak to his most basic and fundamental judicial philosophy. Whereas, on the Democratic side, you're likely to have almost exactly the opposite," added Mohler.

"Very little attention to the underlying judicial philosophy and a great deal more attention to the likely outcomes of that way of interpreting the Constitution on the hot button issues of greatest interest to voters who back the Democratic Party in elections, and most especially are likely to be motivated for the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential cycle."

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