[Dr. Eckleburg]

Six Roman Catholics, two Jews and one 86-year-old Protestant.

Things have certainly changed since there was one Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence and two Catholic signers of the Constitution. Catholics make up a little more than 20% of the U.S. population while over half this country is mainline Protestant.

Six out of nine and nobody says anything about it anywhere.

Strange days have found us.

[awake-n-angry]

Six out of nine and nobody says anything about it anywhere.

Strange days have found us.
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If the Supreme Court was chosen through random selection or through a quota system, you’d have a point. But the choice is not random.

Catholics and Jews revere higher education. It makes perfect sense that they hold a higher percentage of position that require higher education.

[Pyro7480]

Uh, you don't remember the left screaming when Alito was nominated about the Catholic issue, or when they upheld the partial-birth abortion ban? Take this for an example:

[suzyjaruki]

Dr. E, I wonder how these percentages correspond to the total number of attorneys in the U.S.

Do certain professions draw certain idealogies?

[Alex Murphy]

Six Roman Catholics, two Jews and one 86-year-old Protestant....Catholics make up a little more than 20% of the U.S. population while over half this country is mainline Protestant.

Consider: In 45 years, no Democratic president has put a single white Protestant or Catholic man or woman on the court....

....who is the least represented minority in America on the U.S. Supreme Court? Not Catholics, who have two-thirds of the seats. Not Jewish-Americans, who though 2 percent of the population, have 22 percent of the seats. Not African-Americans, who at 13 percent of the population have 11 percent of the seats. And not Hispanics, who at 15 percent of the population will have 11 percent of the seats.

No, the most underrepresented group of Americans -- nay, the most unrepresented minority, the largest group of our fellow citizens never to have had one of its own sit on the U.S. Supreme Court in the modern era is -- Evangelical Christians....

....Republicans should now be searching for highly qualified Evangelical Christian judges and constitutional scholars, women as well as men -- and, when falsely accused of being "anti-Hispanic" or "anti-woman," ought to reply: "What do you liberals have against white Christians, man or woman, not to have named one in 45 years?"

....from related threads:
Why No Evangelical Justice?
Why No Evangelical Justice?

[napscoordinator]

At first I did not like your post...than I see you are making a point...lol.

[OLD REGGIE]

Six Roman Catholics, two Jews and one 86-year-old Protestant.

Things have certainly changed since there was one Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence and two Catholic signers of the Constitution. Catholics make up a little more than 20% of the U.S. population while over half this country is mainline Protestant.

Six out of nine and nobody says anything about it anywhere.

Strange days have found us.

I care not the ethnicity or religion of our Justices. Their adherence to the Constitution is the overriding factor with me.

Given the choice who would you choose as a supreme Court Justice:

Antonin Scalia - Catholic.

-OR-

William Jefferson Clinton - Protestant