Court Could Tip to Catholic Majority

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/06/AR2005110601134.html?referrer=email

Court Could Tip to Catholic Majority
Some Say Slant Is Dangerous; Others See Historic Victory

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 7, 2005; Page A03

If Samuel A. Alito Jr. is confirmed to the Supreme Court, a majority of its nine justices for the first time will be Roman Catholics -- a fact that, depending on whom you ask, marks the acceptance of a once-persecuted minority, reflects the importance of conservative Catholics to the Republican Party or means practically nothing.

Four Catholics currently serve on the court: Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and the new chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr. From the moment that President Bush announced Alito's nomination, there has been an undercurrent of debate about the prospect of a five-member Catholic majority.
After Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said that women, Latinos and people of "other religions, not to mention nonbelievers" would be underrepresented on the court, William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, quickly fired back.

right? It's all about upholding what's constitutional...

LIKE THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE... for starters. :grr:

there wouldn't be an issue. But a lot of religious people--particularly conservatives--are incapable of doing that. Their loyalty to the Pope and the Vatican will overshadow their duty to the Constitution.

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made a concerted effort to address the issue and put those fears to rest.

Accusing me of "catholic bashing" will get you nowhere since I went to catholic school. That's how I know to be suspicious.

We WERE taught to question and to THINK. I guess all that is coming back to bite them now? ROFL

next to all of their chairs in the SCOTUS building, so they can do the Pope's bidding.

Lousy Papists.