Posted on 07/03/2014 2:49:02 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
As has been mentioned a lot lately due to the Hobby Lobby decision, the Supreme Court is made up of six Roman Catholics and three Jews. I have been meaning to post about this for awhile and it seems like an appropriate time to.
For me, as an evangelical, I've found it increasingly troubling that all five conservative-voting justices are Roman Catholic. My belief on it is that the trend to select Roman Catholics as the "conservative" pick seems to come from the sense that they are, overall, less likely to strictly follow God's Word than would be an evangelical and to be more receptive to the opinions of man. The trend in politics in recent years is for evangelicals and more conservative Roman Catholics (and mainline Protestants and Jews) to band together, which is appropriate, but the trend seems to have gone too far in that evangelicals are being influenced to overlook and forget about the true and significant differences between evangelical belief and that of Roman Catholicism. Something has gone wrong when five Roman Catholics represent conservative Christians on the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court is not a religious body and not designed to represent anyone’s personal theology. The Court is a constitutional body, sworn to uphold the US Constitution.
Put your beliefs into action in the voting booth against the atheists and liberals. They are your enemies, not Catholics.
You may not be aware either that Justice Antonin Scalia has a son who is a priest. He jokes about calling his son “Father.”
God bless both father and son here.
But I believe she is a baptized Catholic, although a practicing CINO.
Someday soon all nine of them will be Moslem, and you will be free at last, free at last from the Whore of Babylon.
**I want judges to rule by the Constitution, **
That’s what they have been doing!
“But I believe she is a baptized Catholic, although a practicing CINO.”
I don’t think she even considers herself a Catholic in name only.
She brags about not attending church. She strongly supports abortion. I don’t think she has ever described herself as a Catholic.
I’d be surprised if Protestants comprised less than 1/9 of the nation’s jurists.
The important line in your post is for Evangelical Christians not to think we hold the same beliefs as Catholics. We do not.
Maybe you could dig your hole deeper by describing what it is that makes Catholics unfit?
I don’t think you have a good grasp of our form of government works.
Scalia ---Reagan
Kennedy---Reagan
Thomas ---GHW Bush
Ginsberg--Clinton
Breyer----Clinton
Roberts---GW Bush
Alito-----GW Bush
Sotomayor-Obama
Kagan-----Obama
Believe me, if Reagan has appoiointed a Jew, it would have been a morally-socially-politically conservative Jew; if Obama were to appoint an evangelical, it would somebody of the Rev. Wright variety.
It's not religious, it's political philosophy. Nuff said.
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The point isn’t the confirmation process, but their selection by the Republicans in the first place. Is there some requirement now that a GOP SC nominee be Catholic?
You should really have a tall, refreshing class of chill.
It shouldn’t be faith vs. interpreting the Constitution properly.
“Is there some requirement now that a GOP SC nominee be Catholic?”
Yes.
I don’t believe in many Catholic beliefs and don’t believe that Christianity should be represented on the Supreme Court even mostly by Roman Catholicism.
That’s irrelevant. And I’m not talking about having NO Catholics put on the SC by the GOP be Catholic. But sorry, something is going on if they all are.
It’s as relevant as your original post.
In the Religion forum, on a thread titled Conservatives on the Supreme Court: All Catholic (vanity), Faith Presses On wrote:
I don’t believe in many Catholic beliefs and don’t believe that Christianity should be represented on the Supreme Court even mostly by Roman Catholicism.
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