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To: NVDave
Since 2005, there was only one Protestant left on the court. Since 2010, there are none.

I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember hearing or reading that Justice Thomas is an evangelical Christian. If that's true he must be the only one of those to be seated on the USSC in my 76 year lifetime, and his appointment to that bench was fought tooth and nail by the Senate liberals of that time.

114 posted on 12/02/2013 10:29:01 PM PST by epow ( God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. 6-7)
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To: epow

I think he’s Catholic.


117 posted on 12/02/2013 11:09:52 PM PST by firebrand
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To: epow

“Justice Thomas was reconciled to the Catholic Church in the mid-1990s. In his 2007 autobiography, he criticized the Church for its failure to grapple with racism in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement, saying it was not as “adamant about ending racism then as it is about ending abortion now”.Thomas is one of thirteen Catholic justices—out of 112 justices total—in the history of the Supreme Court, and one of six currently on the Court.”—Wikipedia


119 posted on 12/03/2013 12:05:21 AM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: epow; NVDave
I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember hearing or reading that Justice Thomas is an evangelical Christian.

You are mistaken. He was raised Catholic and after an estrangement over his perception of the RCC not doing enough for civil rights, was reconciled to the RCC and remains a Catholic.

156 posted on 12/06/2013 6:56:43 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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