SCOTUS: Conservative Protestant Southerners are Verboten. Why?

GoBucks ^ | 31 Oct 05 | Gobucks

[gobucks]

Why are Conservative Southern Protestants forbidden to be on SCOTUS?

I have not been able to find the name of the Last Conservative Southern Protestant nominated to SCOTUS. It has been at the least 100 years.

I predicted that an Alito type was going to replace Miers. Her Southern Texas drawl was not going to be tolerated during the hearings...

[gobucks]

And let me head off the 'bigotry' comments right now. All I am arguing is that without the Red State South, the GOP would be whimpering in the minority.

This pick is a major slap in the mouth to Conservative Southern Protestants, period.

Alito will totally be confirmed. He will not be filibustered, and he will say all the right things about 'precedent'.

[Skylab]

There has been only one Catholic president (ouf of 43). Is that "a major slap in the mouth to American Catholics", hmmm?

[TheGhostOfTomPaine]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Black

Southern (from Alabama) and Protestant (Baptist), and "conservative" at least in the sense of "strict constructionist/textualist," whether or not you agree with his own specific Constitutional interpretations.

[gramho12]

Because if you don't go to Yale or Harvard you are not qualified to be on the SC. Just ask those print "conservatives" - they are just as elitist as their fellow liberals.

[msnimje]

This is a baseless argument worthy of the Democrats.

[byteback]

Party at the Country Club tonight...be fashionably late.

[pissant]

As a Catholic, I'd much rather have an evangelical constructionist on the court than a waffling Catholic like justice Kennedy.

[Dorian]

There has been only one Catholic president (ouf of 43). Is that "a major slap in the mouth to American Catholics", hmmm?

heh...good point. Especially considering that Catholics are the largest single religious denomination in the country.

But seriously...whining that white protestant southerners have less representation than they should have is kind of silly.

[EKrusling]

I have not been able to find the name of the Last Conservative Southern Protestant nominated to SCOTUS. It has been at the least 100 years.


How about Thomas? Though raised Catholic he was baptised as a protestant and at the time of his confirmation considered himself one. It was during his time on SCOTUS, after his confirmation, that he returned to the church.

There is no bias against 'Conservative Southern Protestants,' at least no more than there exists against Catholics or any other conservative religious. I see you posting this same complaint on thread after thread, give it a rest.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Well, I think your point is the same point women's groups make about needing another woman. While I would have loved to see an evangelical get the nod (a qualified, tested evangelical), it is not essential. I would be thrilled with nine Catholic Scalia's.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

As a Catholic, I'd much rather have an evangelical constructionist on the court than a waffling Catholic like justice Kennedy.

My feelings are exactly that but in reverse.

[rob777]

Her Southern Texas drawl was not going to be tolerated during the hearings...





I had no problem with her southern drawl, in fact I kind of like a southern accent. The problem I had was the content of what little writing/speeches that were dug up on her. BTW, I kind of resent the implication that those of us who opposed her did so because of bigotry against conservative southern protestants. This is the kind of baseless accusation that the left uses to avoid confronting the substance of an argument and has no place among conservatives

[old and tired]

I'm a Catholic and I'm disappointed for my Evangelical friends that this nominee is not Evangelical. I have a theory why it is conservative Catholics and not conservative Evangelicals on the court though. I think it's because Catholics by and large are still too close to their immigrant roots. We were raised to fit in, to want the American dream. My own children, for example went to colleges like (God forgive me)Georgetown and Boston College.

It will be over their parents' dead bodies that my grandchildren will attend those same institutions. No, my grandchildren will be going to colleges with names like Ave Maria, Christendom, Thomas Aquinas and Franciscan. Their Catholic parents (my children) know that mainstream colleges and mainstream America are no place for Catholics. By the time my grandchildren are middle aged, they will have lived a life on the fringe of American society. Much the way the adult Evangelicals have been living in our country since the 70's.

In twenty or thirty years, our country will have turned the corner one way or the other. People who previously would have been considered living on the fringe will either we welcomed into mainstream society or we - Evangelicals and Catholics alike - will be marginalized together.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

You're sweet, but don't worry about us. In politics, we stand united for the same principles. I'm not offended in the least that he is Catholic. I am happy just as long as he is a conservative judge.

[BibChr]

I'd rather have a Roman Catholic justice who reads the Constitution as a Christian reads the Bible, than a Christian justice who reads it as an RC reads the Bible.

Dan

[kidd]

I am Catholic, and I am offended that Kennedy and Kerry consider themselves Catholic.

Geez, let us have some heroes in power to offset the stain from the northeastern liberal CINOs.

[Wallace T.]

Hugo Black was no more a strict constructionist or originalist than Earl Warren, David Souter, or Ruth Ginsburg. He was a New Deal era liberal appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin Roosevelt to counterbalance the then-conservative majority on that bench. Black was clearly associated with the group of liberals on the Supreme Court that included Felix Frankfurter, William Douglas, Frank Murphy, and Thurgood Marshall.

[NatsFan]

You have conservative southern protestants in the White House and Senate. You have a conservative Northern Protestant as speaker of the house. Do you really feel as though you are unrepresented?

And what would you rather have, a coreligionist on the Supreme Court, or someone who will overturn Roe?

[gobucks]

"And what would you rather have, a coreligionist on the Supreme Court, or someone who will overturn Roe?"

Roe will not be overturned w/ this pick.

[gobucks]

If this RC approaches the constitution as full rationalist, Roe will be upheld, polygamy will become the 'law of the land', and everyone will wonder what went wrong.

Rationally, legalized polygamy makes sense.