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America, 2010: Protestants underrepresented at the U.S. Supreme Court

By Alliance Alert

Razib Khan writing at Gene Expression: "If Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens retires, and is replaced by Elena Kagan (the favorite), then the Supreme Court of the United States of America will have no Protestants on the bench. This in a nation which is 50% Protestant . . . Religion in the United States by and large has become a personal label which serves as a marker toward one?s origins and one?s current loyalties, rather than a confession which indicates identity with a 'thick' and exclusive subculture (the Amish, Hasidic Jews and Fundamentalist Mormons being exceptions) . . . It is correct that many of the Founding Fathers, most famously Thomas Jefferson, were not orthodox Christians. But they were cultural Christians, more specifically cultural Protestants, and particularly of the denominations of their ancestors."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).