Posted on 10/21/2009 3:00:34 AM PDT by markomalley
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is voicing frustration over what he calls persistent questions about the court's Roman Catholic majority.
Alito aired his concerns in a speech Tuesday to an Italian-American law group in Philadelphia. He said respectable people in serious publications have questioned whether the Catholic-raised judges could be trusted to do their jobs. He said he thought the Constitution settled the question long ago with its guarantee of religious freedom.
Alito is one of six justices on the nine-member court who were raised Catholic, including new Justice Sonia Sotomayor. A dozen of the 111 jurists in the court's history have been Catholic.
/sarc
Soomeyar may have been raised Catholic, but she is no more Catholic than I am Buddhist.
“...He said he thought the Constitution settled the question long ago with its guarantee of religious freedom.”
Good thing he didn’t say that before his confirmation or he would never have been confirmed. ;)
Catholic ping!
At least she doesn't support abortion . . . .
What hyper-hysterical nonsense! It is highly unlikely that more than 3 of them (Scalia, Thomas and Alito) would even “theoretically” inform their judicial opinions on Catholic principles. And I give all three of them credit for at least some objectivity in considering “constitutional issues” first.
Besides, what happened to this little bit in article 6, section 3 of the Constitution: “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States”?
Was anyone worried about this sort of religious affiliation stuff when the entire court consisted of generic Protestants? After all, such was the case until Roger Taney became the first Catholic justice in the 1830s.
Plus I would rather see your cat on the SC than Sotomayor.
And if there were any mice, roaches or crickets in the building she would execute summary judgment upon them.
It seems that the Constitution was actually written to prevent the religious tests that were in place in some of the original states
(which actually did prohibit Catholics and Jews from holding office and did otherwise expressly discriminate against Catholics and Jews)
from being imposed on federal office-seekers and federal office-holders.
Plenty of Dem Catholics who believe killing babies is a good thing!!! Nuff said
Unfortunately...
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