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Religion and the Supreme Court

By Steve Hall

Dahlia Lithwick's Slate column is titled, "Articles of Faith: Why Americans can't talk about religion and the Supreme Court." When Justice John Paul Stevens, who is 89, retires?and he's expected to in the next year or so?there will be no Protestant left on the highest court in the land. Will President Obama be pressured to appoint one? Popular opinion once held that even one Catholic was too many on the court. Today there are six. But would anyone even notice if Obama appointed a seventh to replace Stevens? Once upon a time, there was an outright religious litmus test for Supreme Court appointees. Today religion is almost irrelevant in appointing new justices.All of which raises a question: Are the days of caring about religious diversity on the high court behind us? Or is it merely that the days of talking about it openly are behind us?We generally don't talk much about religion and the Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).