Actually that's no guarantee that we'll get good justices. What Congress and the President really need to do is cut off broad swaths of jurisdiction to the federal courts until they learn how to read the Constitution. (Congress does have that power)
I understand what you are saying and couldn't agree more. There are a hell of a lot more things they could be doing too. This steady march towards Socialism too much.
They are corrupting our Schools and therefore our children and undermining our Moral, Christian and Patriotic values.
The dessenting justice Sauter mentioned the First Amendment as stipulating that no State religion should be established or words to that effect. The ADF says other wise:
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/issues/religiousfreedom/churchandstate.aspx?cid=3410
The First Amendment
To believe that the Constitution requires a total separation of church and state is to believe a lie. Nowhere in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or any other founding documents of this nation will one find the phrase so often used today, “separation of church and state.”
Significantly, the phrase “separation of church and state” is not even mentioned in the Congressional Record from June 7 to September 25, 1789, the period that documents the months of discussions and debates of the 90 men who framed the First Amendment. Had separation been the intent of the First Amendment, it seems logical that the phrase would have been mentioned at least once.
Unfortunately, radical advocates have long been trying to re-write the Constitution by making the First Amendment say something it doesn’t.
In contrast, the Declaration of Independence contains four references to God: God as the Creator and the source of liberty (“all men are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights”), God the law giver (“law of nature and of nature’s God”), God the ultimate judge (“the Supreme Judge of the World”), and God as the king above all earthly rulers, as the Sovereign (“Divine Providence”).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318061/posts?page=6#6
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318038/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318034/posts
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=954
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254190/posts