[Vision2020] Sotomayor: US Supreme Court's Sixth Catholic?

[g. crabtree]

Fat chance. Roger. I suspect that her Catholicism is more in the tradition 
of Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi. A box to check on the appropriate forms and 
little else.

g
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>
To: "Ted Moffett" <starbliss at gmail.com>; "Moscow Vision 2020" 
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Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Sotomayor: US Supreme Court's Sixth Catholic?


>I do not think that her views on abortion are well known. If turns out that 
>she is pro-life, I lot of you with the possible exception of Keely will be 
>less enthused with her appointment. It would be ironic if she turned out to 
>be the reverse of Souter on the abortion issue.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: Ted Moffett starbliss at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:41:37 -0700
> To: Moscow Vision 2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Sotomayor: US Supreme Court's Sixth Catholic?
>
>> Gender, racial or ethnic background may or may not be important in a 
>> choice
>> for a US Supreme Court justice, but it seems religious background is not 
>> a
>> major focus in the case of Sotomayor's nomination.
>>
>> And why is this issue not on the front page?  If she were Muslim, Hindu 
>> or
>> Atheist, the full force of the religious bias in the US body politic 
>> towards
>> a challenge to the Christian/Judaism monopoly on US politics would be
>> revealed, despite the claim of the religious right that Christianity is
>> being marginalized in government.  Religion is a dominant influence on
>> ideology that should be open to full critical rational fact based
>> discussion, as well as gender, racial or ethnic background.
>>
>> Article on Sotomayor's Catholic background:
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/us/politics/31catholics.html?ref=global-home
>> -------------------
>> Why is there not a single US Senator who declares themselves of another
>> religious background than Christian or Jewish, of one variety or another?
>> There are two US Senators who are "unspecified."  Now there's a faith for
>> you!
>>
>> http://www.adherents.com/adh_congress.html#109
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Affiliation_in_the_United_States_Senate
>>
>> >From website above:
>>
>> According to the data, no Senator falls under the category "No
>> Religion/Atheist/Agnostic" - a category embodied by 15.0% of the U.S.
>> population according to the 2001 Census.
>> -------------------
>> Religion is the most pervasive form of prejudice against a political
>> position (and despite what some might wish otherwise, US Supreme Court
>> justice nominations are very political in nature) in US politics, in the 
>> US
>> Senate or the presidency.  More than gender, race or ethnicity.
>>
>> No politician running for the US Senate or the presidency would stand a
>> chance if they openly declared themselves Atheist.
>>
>> Ted Moffett
>>
>>
>
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