Posted on 03/04/2012 4:58:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Anyone who is old enough to remember Sen. John F. Kennedy’s run for president in 1960 knows that this used to be not just a Christian country, but a Protestant one. Admittedly, the Constitution makes the United States secular by law, but for most of our history, we have been Protestant by choice.
All that has changed in recent years. We now have a Catholic speaker of the House (John Boehner), a Catholic House minority leader (Nancy Pelosi) and a Catholic vice president (Joe Biden). Six of the nine justices on the Supreme Court are Catholics. And that guy duking it out with Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination? Rick Santorum is Catholic, too.
It wasn’t so long ago that U.S. Protestants were burning down Catholic convents to protest efforts by the Vatican to infiltrate American society and take it over from within. Today, you don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to see that Catholics now occupy some of the most powerful positions in the land.
Which leads me to today’s top 12 list of America’s most influential Catholics:
1-6: Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor
I know that justices are supposed to stick to interpreting the law rather than making it, especially if they adhere to the judicial philosophy of “original intent,” but I’m not buying it. When it comes to “judicial activism,” there are really only two kinds of judges: those who know they are acting and those who wrongly imagine they are not.
Throughout U.S. history, the Supreme Court has played nearly as important a role as the presidency on the race question, and a more important role than the U.S. Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
Which leads me to today’s top 12 list of America’s most influential Catholics:
1-6: Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor
7: Speaker of the House John Boehner
8. Vice President Joe Biden
9. Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania
10. Archbishop Timothy Dolan
11. Stephen Colbert
12. Blogger Andrew Sullivan
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Biden is a CINO dimocrat. I would replace him with Jeb Bush or Newt Gingrich.
I’m not claiming anything, I am asking you to explain and substantiate this claim of yours.
I have read the same or similar statistics for years. I am sure that you can easily find it.
Pelosi and Biden aren’t Catholic. Andrew Sullivan damn well isn’t Catholic. They may SAY they are, but they aren’t.
Show your sources or quit claiming it, it is not our job to prove every internet claim made by strangers.
On freerepublic (and all conservative sites), we are expected to support our own posts of supposed facts and history.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
I forgot that this was religion, but are we required to accept un sourced WWII statistics as facts, when badgered to?
saradippity made his post to me on WWII history and I requested his source for the statistic, that is badgering?
If the poster cannot or will not answer your question after a few attempts, then it is sufficient to declare your point and move to something else. In this case, you might say "Since you have not provided a source in response to my requests, the statement that blah will be presumed false."
...and I do not answer to you
Since you have not provided a source in response to my requests, the statement that blah will be presumed false.
If you would post that freepmail you sent me, onto this thread, I think that it would give a whole new meaning to vile, personal attack.
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