It was never a stated criterion of the president, and to that effect, the White House went out of its way to assure the press that his Catholicism was NOT a valid point of argument. In this case, he's using Miers' evangelic faith as a PROMINENT point of argument.
If we live by the sword, we will die by the sword. Unless we restore the viability of above-board, examinable jurists to the confirmation process, we will have a future judiciary made up of stealth nominees appointed and confirmed in the dark. We will have validated the obstructionist tactics of the liberal whackos and made the filibuster part and parcel to the judicial confirmation process.
only for republican presidents choices. democratic presidents choices will get on the COurt just fine.