Posted on 07/20/2005 7:06:32 PM PDT by Salvation
| Justice | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| William H. Rehnquist | Lutheran |
| Stephen G. Breyer | Jewish |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Jewish |
| Anthony M. Kennedy | Catholic |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | Episcopalian |
| Antonin Scalia | Catholic |
| David H. Souter | Episcopalian |
| John Paul Stevens | Protestant |
| Clarence Thomas | Catholic |
| Religious Affiliation | Justices | % of U.S. Pop. in this religion |
% of Justices in this religion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian | Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor, Souter, Stevens, Rehnquist | 76.5% | 78% |
| Protestant* | Stevens, Rehnquist | 57.0% | 22% |
| Lutheran | Rehnquist | 5.2% | 11% |
| Catholic | Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas | 24.5% | 33% |
| Episcopalian | O'Connor, Souter | 1.7% | 22% |
| Jewish | Breyer, Ginsburg | 1.8% | 22% |
* Protestant: Episcopalians have been left out of the "Protestant" category in the table above. Depending on the type of classification system consulted, Anglicans/Episcopalians are sometimes classified as "Protestant" and sometimes not. If one includes the two Episcopalian justices, 44% (4 out of 9) of the Supreme Court justices are Protestant.
I don't get it. The Democrats adore their deceased Catholic president, but detest the idea of a Catholic justice on the Supreme Court? What gives?
I found the listing of religions fascinating. Too bad you don't.
Just remember that JFK was a CINO.
The Spiritdaily is over-wrought, and the font is butt ugly. With "friends" like this, who needs ... ."
Depends on whether or not the guy is a "good Catholic" or just "a Catholic". Odds are Judge Roberts doesn't mess around like John Kennedy and his brothers did, so Democrats will have a problem with him.
| Affiliation | # of Justices |
% of Justices |
% of U.S. population, 2000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episcopal | 33 | 30.8% | 1.7% |
| Presbyterian | 18 | 16.8% | 2.8% |
| "Protestant" not further defined * | 15 | 14.0% | 9.7% |
| Catholic | 10 | 9.3% | 24.5% |
| Unitarian | 9 | 8.4% | 0.2% |
| Jewish | 7 | 6.5% | 1.8% |
| Methodist | 5 | 4.7% | 8.0% |
| Baptist | 3 | 2.8% | 18.0% |
| Congregational | 1 | 0.9% | 0.6% |
| Disciples of Christ | 1 | 0.9% | 0.3% |
| Lutheran | 1 | 0.9% | 5.2% |
| Quaker | 1 | 0.9% | 0.1% |
| Not a member of any church | 1 | 0.9% | |
| Church of Disciples (?) | 1 | 0.9% | |
| Trinity Church (?) | 1 | 0.9% | |
| Total | 107 | 100.0% | 74.4% |
Some major U.S. religious groups which have never been represented on the U.S. Supreme Court: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Mormons (2%), Pentecostals (1.8%), Muslims (1.5%), Eastern Orthodox (1%).
I really don't. I think it is much ado about nothing. Either Roberts will be confirmed or the filibuster will be nuked. I am happy both ways.
Bush's nomination of John Roberts goes a long way in making up for other shortcomings.
Way to go W!
Well, the democRATs had no problem with a Catholic president and AG...oops, my bad, thats before the democRATs became the party of the Antichrist.
5.56mm
thanks for voicing your opinion.
Don't let the anklebiters detract you. I found the stats interesting too.
I don't seem to recall the MSM making a big deal out of Kerry being Catholic (albeit CINO).
| Justice | Religion |
|---|---|
| Charles E. Hughes | Baptist |
| Howell E. Jackson | Baptist |
| Hugo L. Black | Baptist |
| Anthony M. Kennedy | Catholic |
| Antonin Scalia | Catholic |
| Clarence Thomas | Catholic |
| Edward D. White | Catholic |
| Frank Murphy | Catholic |
| Joseph McKenna | Catholic |
| Pierce Butler | Catholic |
| Roger B. Taney | Catholic |
| Sherman Minton | Catholic |
| William J. Brennan | Catholic |
| Joseph R. Lamar | Church of Disciples (?) |
| Oliver Ellsworth | Congregational |
| James C. McReynolds | Disciples of Christ |
| Alfred Moore | Episcopal |
| Benjamin R. Curtis 2 | Episcopal |
| Bushrod Washington | Episcopal |
| Byron R. White | Episcopal |
| David H. Souter | Episcopal |
| Edward T. Sanford | Episcopal |
| George Sutherland | Episcopal |
| Harlan F. Stone | Episcopal |
| Horace H. Lurton | Episcopal |
| James F. Byrnes | Episcopal |
| James Iredell | Episcopal |
| James Wilson | Episcopal |
| John A. Campbell | Episcopal |
| John Jay | Episcopal |
| John Marshall | Episcopal |
| John Rutledge 4 | Episcopal |
| Melville W. Fuller | Episcopal |
| Morrison R. Waite | Episcopal |
| Owen J. Roberts | Episcopal |
| Peter V. Daniel | Episcopal |
| Philip P. Barbour | Episcopal |
| Potter Stewart | Episcopal |
| Robert H. Jackson | Episcopal |
| Rufus W. Peckham | Episcopal |
| Salmon P. Chase | Episcopal |
| Samuel Chase | Episcopal |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | Episcopal |
| Stephen J. Field | Episcopal |
| Thomas Johnson | Episcopal |
| Thurgood Marshall | Episcopal |
| Ward Hunt | Episcopal |
| William H. Moody | Episcopal |
| Willis Van Devanter | Episcopal |
| Abe Fortas | Jewish |
| Arthur J. Goldberg | Jewish |
| Benjamin N. Cardozo | Jewish |
| Felix Frankfurter | Jewish |
| Louis D. Brandeis | Jewish |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Jewish |
| Stephen G. Breyer | Jewish |
| William H. Rehnquist | Lutheran |
| Charles E. Whittaker | Methodist |
| Frederick M. Vinson | Methodist |
| Harry A. Blackmun | Methodist |
| John McLean 5 | Methodist |
| Lucius Q. C. Lamar | Methodist |
| David Davis | Not a member of any church. |
| Brockholst Livingston | Presbyterian |
| George Shiras, Jr. | Presbyterian |
| John Blair | Presbyterian |
| John Catron | Presbyterian |
| John M. Harlan | Presbyterian |
| Joseph P. Bradley | Presbyterian |
| Lewis F. Powell, Jr. | Presbyterian |
| Mahlon Pitney | Presbyterian |
| Robert C. Grier | Presbyterian |
| Samuel Blatchford | Presbyterian |
| Smith Thompson | Presbyterian |
| Stanley Matthews | Presbyterian |
| Thomas Todd | Presbyterian |
| Tom C. Clark | Presbyterian |
| Warren E. Burger | Presbyterian |
| William Johnson | Presbyterian |
| William O. Douglas | Presbyterian |
| William Strong | Presbyterian |
| Gabriel Duval 6 | Protestant |
| David J. Brewer | Protestant |
| Earl Warren | Protestant |
| Henry B. Brown | Protestant |
| James M. Wayne | Protestant |
| John H. Clarke | Protestant |
| John McKinley | Protestant |
| John Paul Stevens | Protestant |
| Levi Woodbury | Protestant |
| Robert Trimble | Protestant |
| Samuel Nelson | Protestant |
| Stanley F. Reed | Protestant |
| William B. Woods | Protestant |
| William Paterson | Protestant |
| William R. Day | Protestant |
| Noah H. Swayne | Quaker |
| Henry Baldwin | Trinity Church |
| Harold H. Burton | Unitarian |
| Horace Gray | Unitarian |
| Joseph Story | Unitarian |
| Nathan Clifford 1 | Unitarian |
| Oliver W. Holmes | Unitarian |
| Samuel F. Miller | Unitarian |
| Wiley B. Rutledge | Unitarian |
| William Cushing | Unitarian |
| William H. Taft | Unitarian |
* "Protestant" not further defined: According to 2000 Gallup polling data, 57% of Americans identify themselves as Protestants. But most also identify with a specific denomination or denominational family. In the 1990 Kosmin NSRI survey, 9.7% of Americans stated their religious preference as "Protestant", without further denominational identification.
It is important to note that the relative proportion of membership in various religious groups has changed dramatically over the course of U.S. history. For example, when the nation was founded, Congregationalists and Episcopalians were among the largest denominations, but there were very few Catholics. Today, the Catholic Church is the largest U.S. denomination. Also, there are only nine Supreme Court justices, so it would be impossible to ever have a Court that reflects every possible demographic group. So, to compare the proportion of Supreme Court justices in various denominations from throughout U.S. history versus the proportion of U.S. citizens in those denominations today is not as meaningful as, for example, comparing the current religious composition of the U.S. House of Representatives to the current religious demographics of the U.S. population.
Thank God.
The usual hypocrisy, that's all.
Def - The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
More to the point, with the DIMs being so obviously anti-religion, why do the majority of Catholics vote for them?
Amzing to me that Jewish and Catholics are fairly newcomers to the list also!
That's my call. Your mileage obviously varies.
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