Gorsuch left the Catholic Church to go to an ECUSA church.
There are only two reasons for this to happen:
1) You are a woman and want to become a priest.
2) You cannot accept the RC understanding of LGBTQI+
Since ECUSA went all in on gays, every Episcopal parish has become overwhelmingly homosexual. If this didn’t bother Gorsuch (and we know it didn’t) his votes on that issue have been completely predictable.
Just a theory: I believe that he married a woman from a prominent British family (he studied in the UK). In these British circles it is probably still unacceptable to be Catholic because Catholics are those lowly Irishmen. Gorsuch probably wasn’t a strong Catholic so he didn’t object to converting.
I think that Justice Gorsuch is intellectually originalist (his defense of capital punishment in one Supreme Court case was brilliant and fully originalist), but he isn’t culturally conservative.
Kavanaugh makes it a point to hire more woman law clerks than anyone else. He wants to burnish his wokeness. That was a warning sign to me.