[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.