SIX members of SCOTUS......Catholic.

@dood111 said
You guess?
Since it was mostly WASP's and Catholics that developed the academic disciplines of our American legal system, where did this guess of yours come from?

Apparently the WASPs let the Catholics do it. 😏

You know the Republic is a Roman thing right? Not English?

YouTube : King Arthur movie clip

The Latino Roman Catholic is the guy on the horse. The Englishman is the savage on foot.

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/07/18/why-do-catholics-make-majority-supreme-court

“There is a long tradition in the U.S. of Catholics entering the legal profession, most obviously law enforcement but in other areas as well,” said Richard Doerflinger, a fellow at the University of Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture...

Mr. Doerflinger says that evangelical Protestants may more be reluctant to pursue legal careers because they often see “a sharper divide between the city of God and the city of man,” whereas Catholicism provides a natural bridge “between the founding principles of our nation and basic principles of Catholic social teaching.”

@handyandy said
By devout, do you mean she wants to burn non-believers at the stake?

not at all but dems will work that aspect of Amy to a tee.

they'll tell you that her religious views conflict with the separation of church and state. book it.

@sonhouse said
@vivify
Because she is rabidly against ACA AND Roe V Wade, if they repeal ACA, not only will millions go uncovered but Covid patients who test positive will forever be pre existing conditions. So MANY millions will suffer because of this pick.
Also BTW, Repubs have ZERO replacement of the ACA, its been near 4 years since they have tried several times to kill it and have NEVER come up with a replacement plan.

The ‘plan’ will be difficult to formulate, as it isimply just HAS to cover illegals. So the real question is how Sonhouse supports Biden who wants our (resources) to cover people, invaders, whomever, that are illegally in our country.

Can someone enlighten us as to how that makes sense?

@earl-of-trumps said
Because catholics do not believe in birth control

I doubt that was Average Joe's motivation for this thread.

@sonhouse said
@vivify
Because she is rabidly against ACA AND Roe V Wade, if they repeal ACA, not only will millions go uncovered but Covid patients who test positive will forever be pre existing conditions. So MANY millions will suffer because of this pick.
Also BTW, Repubs have ZERO replacement of the ACA, its been near 4 years since they have tried several times to kill it and have NEVER come up with a replacement plan.

So then the issue isn't that she's Catholic; the issue is that she's a hard-right conservative.

@earl-of-trumps said
not at all but dems will work that aspect of Amy to a tee.

they'll tell you that her religious views conflict with the separation of church and state. book it.

Do you think her religious views conflict with separation of church and state?

@handyandy said
Do you think her religious views conflict with separation of church and state?

Impossible to say.

@earl-of-trumps said
Impossible to say.

Only if you forgot that Catholics do not approve of certain types of birth control and Judge Barrett wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

@averagejoe1 said
@AverageJoe1
SIX

Before the death of Justice Ginsburg at age 87, the Supreme Court included five Catholic justices (Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor and Brett Kavanaugh) and three Jewish justices (Ms. Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan). The ninth justice, Neil Gorsuch, was raised Catholic but reportedly attends an Episcopal church.

It'd technically be 5 Catholics, a Protestant, and three Jews.

Jewish people make up less than 3% of the US by every metric.
Catholics make up around 22% of the population.
Protestants make up something like 43% of the US population.

(These are from three different sources that I just got from throwing the queries into DuckDuckGo -- didn't bother linking each individual claim here.)

@philokalia said
[quote]Before the death of Justice Ginsburg at age 87, the Supreme Court included five Catholic justices (Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor and Brett Kavanaugh) and three Jewish justices (Ms. Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan). The ninth justice, Neil Gorsuch, was raised Catholic but reportedly attends an Episcopal church. ...[text shortened]... got from throwing the queries into DuckDuckGo -- didn't bother linking each individual claim here.)

Before Kavanaugh there were 6 Catholic 3 Jews

@handyandy said
Do you think her religious views conflict with separation of church and state?

When the US constitution was being drafted the Church of England was that country's official state religion.
The idea behind 'separation of church and state' (in the US) was to prevent the establishment of an official state religion.

It was never meant to prevent individuals with religious beliefs from holding public office.

@earl-of-trumps said
In that case, Biden is Catholic, too. I think you should never vote for him or support him.

Right?

Of course I should it doesn’t make a tinkers toss to me as long as they don’t try to shove their religious BS down mine or anyone else’s throat.
I think Biden has a track record of not being a dogmatic fundamentalist.
There is nothing wrong with someone having private religious beliefs but if they are in public service they should keep the private and public distinctly seperate.

@kevcvs57 said
Of course I should it doesn’t make a tinkers toss to me as long as they don’t try to shove their religious BS down mine or anyone else’s throat.
I think Biden has a track record of not being a dogmatic fundamentalist.
There is nothing wrong with someone having private religious beliefs but if they are in public service they should keep the private and public distinctly seperate.

Why should they be kept separate?

@philokalia said
Why should they be kept separate?

What if one the Justices were Muslim? Surely conservatives would want religion kept separate then, right?

@philokalia said
Why should they be kept separate?

If you don’t think they should perhaps you should move to Iran.
How can you base a system of government on an imaginary creature? I mean how retarded would that be.