text: "He said dogma guided the country's founders, who believed citizens should practice "their faith freely and without apology."
  
  No to the first part of that but yes to the second. The founding fathers were mostly Enlightenment Age rationalists who were deists at best. To say that religious dogma guided them borders on untruth. In shaping a new republic they were guided by the fundamental principle of the separation between church and state, i.e. that no church would ever dictate law.
  
  As for the (faux) outrage at Senator Feinstein's questions, since when have legitimate questions about anything having to do with a candidate's belief system been out of bounds when judicial nominees undergo questioning? Things have certainly changed since the days when JFK went out of his way to assure WASP voters that Rome would never guide his actions as president and U.S. bishops were as quiet as a bunch of church mice in their eager determination to get a Catholic in the White House.