Blatantly ignorant. There is no test for religion. In not one case has the nominee’s religion played a part in their confirmation.
John Roberts' insane "It's a Tax," vote on the Affordable Care Act, reinforces your thinking
Don’t really see the issue. Would this not be down to the fact that more Catholics go into law than Evangelicals?
It has been pointed out often how many Jews are in congress (Jews in the loosest sense of the word) compared to the general population. Its just that more Jews decide to go into politics.
My concern is whether a justice is an originalist and that their originalist interpretation is correct. If they are, they will vote in a pro-Christian way because the original constitution is pro-Christian.
“My belief on it is that the trend to select Roman Catholics as the “conservative” pick seems to come from the sense that they are, overall, less likely to strictly follow God’s Word than would be an evangelical and to be more receptive to the opinions of man.”
A Supreme Court judge is supposed to be following the rule of law - the Constitution, not his religious denomination. How strictly he interprets scripture is not relevant to the job. Any judge that puts his religious/political opinion before the clear words of the Constitution (as all liberals do) should be kicked out.
“Something has gone wrong when five Roman Catholics represent conservative Christians on the Supreme Court.”
As long as they follow the Constitution I do not care if they are Catholic, Jewish, or atheist. While I agree it would be nice to have a conservative evangelical or two on the bench, the four Catholics on it right now are doing great (Roberts with one giant exception), even Kennedy has been on a good streak recently.
I guess I don’t understand. Is your beef with Catholics? It sure as hell wasn’t Catholics that nominated any of the current SCOTUS squatters.
The Supreme Court is actually made up of 5 Catholics, 3 Jews and one person who doesn't believe in anything except what is politically correct.
Sonia Sotomayor does not believe in or practice the Catholic faith. She is strongly pro abortion among her other positions.
Would you be happier if the Catholics on the SC were liberal?
This was a very inarticulate post that did not make your point, if any, clear.
“The trend in politics in recent years is for evangelicals and more conservative Roman Catholics (and mainline Protestants and Jews) to band together, which is appropriate, but the trend seems to have gone too far in that evangelicals are being influenced to overlook and forget about the true and significant differences between evangelical belief and that of Roman Catholicism.”
So what do you envision as a possible solution? Evangelical pols blocking conservative Catholic SC nominations by Protestant Presidents or what? Evangelicals supporting presidential nominees that vow to recognize the true differences between Evangelicals or Catholics?
In any case, I’m pretty sure Clarence Thomas is a secret member of the order of Albino Monk Assassins.
Freegards
What church do you attend?
Are you aware that the Catholic Church is the one and only church that through the ages has stood against
abortion
euthanasia
embryonic stem cell research
contraception
homosexuality
and FOR the truth of Christ!!!!!??????
The Supreme Court is not a religious body and not designed to represent anyone’s personal theology. The Court is a constitutional body, sworn to uphold the US Constitution.
Put your beliefs into action in the voting booth against the atheists and liberals. They are your enemies, not Catholics.
You may not be aware either that Justice Antonin Scalia has a son who is a priest. He jokes about calling his son “Father.”
God bless both father and son here.
Someday soon all nine of them will be Moslem, and you will be free at last, free at last from the Whore of Babylon.
The important line in your post is for Evangelical Christians not to think we hold the same beliefs as Catholics. We do not.
Maybe you could dig your hole deeper by describing what it is that makes Catholics unfit?
I don’t think you have a good grasp of our form of government works.
Scalia ---Reagan
Kennedy---Reagan
Thomas ---GHW Bush
Ginsberg--Clinton
Breyer----Clinton
Roberts---GW Bush
Alito-----GW Bush
Sotomayor-Obama
Kagan-----Obama
Believe me, if Reagan has appoiointed a Jew, it would have been a morally-socially-politically conservative Jew; if Obama were to appoint an evangelical, it would somebody of the Rev. Wright variety.
It's not religious, it's political philosophy. Nuff said.
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If memory serves, Thomas was an Episcopalian (?) when nominated, after his mentor Danforth. He has since returned to the Catholic faith of his upbringing, as I understand.
You don’t know what the Supreme Court IS.
God’s Word has nothing to do with the duties of a judge.
A judge’s job is to apply the laws passed by the legislature(s), including the Constitution ratified by the state legislatures.
If you want God’s Word to have some salutary effect on law, then 1) educate the electorate, 2) campaign for good legislators at the state and national level.