Posted on 06/27/2015 6:57:47 AM PDT by navysealdad
The Supreme Court has 6 Catholics and 3 Jewish. Wonder why?
As I thought, I didn't make myself clear. What pool of able and qualified jurists does any President have from which to nominate candidates for the Supreme Court (or any Federal Court, for that matter)?
The candidate's religion is not to be a qualification for selection; only his/her effectiveness in the law profession is to count.
If there are not a lot of Protestant lawyers interested in the judiciary, there will not be a fair number of Protestants represented in the group, will there?
That was my point with mentioning Palin.
We need to to take the law from the lawyers, they have a whole priesthood thing going, and most of them are incompetent and unqualified to be in their positions, that is why law in America is one of the most incompetent, corrupt, buffoonish, just plain ridiculously cartoonish, sectors of life and government in modern America.
Just asking. The President just recommends the appointment, remember? Don't blame it on Protestant Presidents, self-described or not.
Hoss
The "majority of Catholics" don't live in the United States, so, no, I wouldn't assume that they are "pleased with this".
Whether a large number of apostate Catholics in this country agree with it or not, I honestly don't give a damn. Most of them are going to hell, quite frankly. I don't plan to be among that number.
Who confirms them?
The Senate can only confirm someone the President nominates. As you probably know, it's very rare for the Senate to reject a SCOTUS nominee.
You can go do the research, if you want, on the religious composition of the Senate in past Congresses. The current Senate is 28% (self-identified) Catholics, versus 25.8% of the population. That's roughly representative.
I realize that the Catholic denomination is a European based church, with Hispanics being the largest single group of the Catholic denomination.
But this is America, and a thread about America.
Catholics here support gay marriage, and vote accordingly.
Ted Cruz, OTOH, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law, although the harpies in the media never tell you that. He would certainly be qualified to be a Federal judge. Usually a SCOTUS nominee is either a Federal judge at a lower level, or (rarely) a state judge or law school professor.
Of course, "Catholics" such as Sotomayor and Sandra Day O'Kennedy are also baby-killing disgraces, as are Kagan and Ginsburg and, to a lesser extent Breyer. I don't care what their respective religions may be claimed to be. I care about their voting records.
A fallen away Reformed Christian is no better than a fallen away Catholic or Jew.
Clarence Thomas is also an intellectual asset to the SCOTUS.
As I have pointed out to you before, a majority of American Catholics don't bother to attend Mass on Sunday. If their Sunday morning plans aren't informed by their (supposed) Catholicism, neither are their political opinions.
Read the post, and quit playing the desperate fool.
To: Campion
The majority of Catholics are pleased with this, they vote for the gay marriage party, and the polls show that they support gay marriage at about the same percentage that their Irish members voted in gay marriage by.
To the majority of Catholic members, this is a goal attained.
“Other groups showing at least 60% support for legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide include Democrats, adults aged 18 to 34, those who rarely or never attend a church or other place of worship, moderates, Easterners, and Catholics.”
40 posted on 6/27/2015, 8:39:56 AM by ansel12
She is qualified the same way that my stepfather was qualified to become a judge, judgement, and the ability to correctly apply law.
We need to take the law back from this priesthood of legal buffoons that have made it so ridiculous.
By the way, African and Asia together have 255 million Catholics, which dwarfs the Catholic population of the US (70 million). Very few Asian or African Catholics would recognize or endorse yesterday’s desolating abomination.
They could have been Protestants like Earl Warren or Harry Blackmun or John Paul Stevens or David Souter and they'd have voted the same way.
Similarly, Catholics generally vote the way their neighbors vote, whatever the haters keep on saying.
Phrase your posts accurately, and quit making personal attacks that aren't allowed by the forum rules.
LOL, you really are wigging out, you should struggle to get control over that desperation, and ask yourself what on this thread should be making you so desperate in the first place, just settle down.
Yep, we should have taken a lesson from Borked. ‘One more justice for injustice” were the bumper stickers. But HITH anyone could vote for a Sotomayor, Kagan, Souter, et al these stealth or token nominations is beyond me. Just throwing away power to “activist” judges who make the wrong decisions like clockwork.
Ah. I see that you want Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin appointed to the Supreme Court by a Protestant President, right?
Domo Arigato, Mr. Illuminato!
That is what you thought that post was saying?
To: imardmd1
That was my point with mentioning Palin.
We need to to take the law from the lawyers, they have a whole priesthood thing going, and most of them are incompetent and unqualified to be in their positions, that is why law in America is one of the most incompetent, corrupt, buffoonish, just plain ridiculously cartoonish, sectors of life and government in modern America.
42 posted on 6/27/2015, 9:13:26 AM by ansel12
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