Posted on 06/27/2015 6:57:47 AM PDT by navysealdad
The Supreme Court has 6 Catholics and 3 Jewish. Wonder why?
MARCH 19, 2007
...From Wright and others, Obama learned that part of his problem as an organizer was that he was trying to build a confederation of churches but wasn't showing up in the pews on Sunday. When pastors asked him the inevitable questions about his own spiritual life, Obama would duck them uncomfortably. A Reverend Philips put the problem to him squarely when he learned that Obama didn't attend services. “It might help your mission if you had a church home,” he told Obama. “It doesn't matter where, really. What you're asking from pastors requires us to set aside some of our more priestly concerns in favor of prophesy. That requires a good deal of faith on our part. It makes us want to know just where you're getting yours from.”
After many lectures like this, Obama decided to take a second look at Wright's church. Older pastors warned him that Trinity was for “Buppies”—black urban professionals—and didn't have enough street cred. But Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago, and Trinity's guiding principles—what the church calls the “Black Value System”—included a “Disavowal of the Pursuit of ‘Middleclassness.’”
The cross currents appealed to Obama. He came to believe that the church could not only compensate for the limitations of Alinsky-style organizing but could help answer the nagging identity problem he had come to Chicago to solve. “It was a powerful program, this cultural community,” he wrote, “one more pliant than simple nationalism, more sustaining than my own brand of organizing. “
As a result, over the years, Wright became not only Obama’s pastor, but his mentor. The title of Obama’s recent book, The Audacity of Hope, is based on a sermon by Wright. (It's worth noting, however, that, while Obama’s book is a cool headed appeal for common ground in an age of political polarization, Wright's sermon, “The Audacity to Hope,” is a fiery jeremiad about persevering in a world of nuclear arms and racial inequality.) Wright is one of the first people Obama thanked after his Senate victory in 2004, and he recently name-checked Wright in his speech to civil rights leaders in Selma, Alabama...
6 Catholics and 3 Jews walk into a bar. The bartender turns to John Kerry and says, “Hey, why the long face?”
There is a theory prevalent among the GOPe that the president has the right to appoint Supreme Court justices. And Congress should defer to that "right" except in extreme circumstances.
That theory is certainly wrong. The president only has the right to nominate justices. It is the job of Congress to freely accept or reject the nominees.
The GOPe doesn't get that. But the liberals do. That's why Robert Bork never made it to the Supreme Court.
Because you deliberately did not mention the Illuminati, I can only assume that you are an Illuminati (or is it an Illuminatus?).
So.... The religion of the APPOINTER causes Roman Catholics To be the way they are... Really? Really?
I thought the very fact that they were baptized into the Roman Catholic faith was all that was needed...but now it seems like the Roman Catholic Faith is in someway controlled, drone-like, because they were appointed by Protestants.
This is laughable were it not so sad that Roman Catholics apparently believe it.
Hoss
Because Protestantism, placed in a law school dish, is rapidly destroyed?
Those few cells that make it through the school dish, die off eventually in the natural atmosphere into which they’re released, long before they float up to federal level.
Probably because Jews tend to be far more educated and accomplished than the population mean. Not sure why, but it just is. Jews are also over-represented as Nobel Prize winners and in most scholarly activities.
Basketball, NASCAR and pro-wrestling, not so much.
One can make big generalizations about the Catholic denomination, or Protestant denominations, or the Jewish vote, or even something like “protestants”, but taking 9 individual people, and trying to make something of their falling into one of those huge categories, is senseless.
If you want to make an issue of the religion of the justices, then it is equally valid to point out the religion of the people who put them there, knowing that they wouldn’t follow the doctrines of their religion in the first place.
Either an Illuminatus or an Illuminata, depending on rodamala’s sex.
And, I would add, because the appointers themselves likewise do not/did not hold their faith seriously.
There is a Jewish section in my town. I go there occasionally for baked goods. So one day I'm walking there behind a Jewish man (wearing a yarmulke). the man was with his son, who couldn't have been more than five years old.
I was close enough to hear their conversation. The father was quizzing his son on the multiplication table. Twenty years from now, I'm sure that boy will be in medical school or law school.
Agreed.
Those are some key factors. As ethnic groups, but Jews and Asians tend to emphasize education & learning. In particular, Jews tend to:
1. Make their children read books
2. Show interest in their progress
3. Emphasize the value of education as a pathway to success
Many other groups over-emphasize sports. Both have their place in personality development. Sports teaches teamwork, discipline, competitiveness, and....common sense. From personal observation, it seems that these latter attributes are sometimes under-developed in Jews (even if they are otherwise very intelligent). This can cause friction with others and may result in some negative stereotypes.
You really do need a balance.
Roman Catholics To be the way they are... Really? Really?
What "way" is that, exactly?
I only got this far when Judge Bork immediately popped into my mind. I've read his books, and felt that Biden's victory over rationality at least freed Bork to write them, condemning the modern direction of the Supreme Court.
What a shame.
Presidents, Protestant or not, only have a pool of candidates from which to choose. Where are the able and qualified Protestants?
Ted Cruz is an example, Sarah Palin, both able and qualified.
The majority of Catholics are pleased with this, they vote for the gay marriage party, and the polls show that they support gay marriage at about the same percentage that their Irish members voted in gay marriage by.
To the majority of Catholic members, this is a goal attained.
“Other groups showing at least 60% support for legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide include Democrats, adults aged 18 to 34, those who rarely or never attend a church or other place of worship, moderates, Easterners, and Catholics.”
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