Well, considering the strong Catholic bias on the Supreme Court, this atheist is grateful that someone is willing to question a candidate's willingness to be open to settled law, like Roe V. Wade. No sensible person can look at our judicial system and see anything other than a strong fundamentalist religious bias. 
Gerson is pretending to be defending religious perspectives, but pretty much all he is about is fighting for the right of oligarchs to set in concrete the income inequality that exists in America.
The far right pretends to care about values, but in reality they are about getting rich. So they work to cut food stamps and public housing, all the while speechifying  about hewing to Christian values. 

I put "intellectually bankrupt" into google and had fun reading all the different ways we humans look at those we disagree with. If it really means "illogical" then pretty much all religion is intellectually bankrupt.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon