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

[bear at moscow.com]

Ted and Paul,

I guess i have to ask the question, "Does it make a difference one way or
the other"?

Taking myself as an example, I was raised and am a practicing Catholic. I
do not believe in abortions at all, however, I do believe in choice. Pro
choice does NOT equal pro-abortion.

And just as an aside, have you ever noticed how the "anti-abortion" folks
are usually pro death penalty?  I think those of us that oppose the death
penalty (which I do), should just call it post-birth abortions and we
could get most of the anti-abortion folks on board!

Wayne




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> Ted Moffett wrote:
>> On 6/5/09, *Paul Rumelhart* <godshatter at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:godshatter at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     I used to speculate wildly about whether or not our former
>>     President was
>>     really a believer or if he was blatantly manipulating the religious
>>     right through their own predilictions (or both).  What it comes
>>     down to
>>     is this: we can't look into their hearts.  Sotomayor may be the most
>>     devout Catholic evar, but doesn't outwardly show it on a day-to-day
>>     basis.  For all I know, she goes to church three times a week just
>> to
>>     get away from her family.  We just can't know.
>>
>>
>>
>> Why do you state "we just can't know" about Sotomayor's regularity of
>> church attendance?
>
> Rereading that, I see I wasn't very clear.  I'm not saying "we just
> can't know" about her regularity of church attendance.  I'm saying "we
> just can't know" what's in her heart, what she actually believes deep
> down inside.  The most regular church attender might be a closet
> Luciferan Satanist, people who never go to church may be extremely
> spiritual Christians.  We can speculate wildly about what they actually
> believe.  We can even read what they claim to believe, but we'll never
> know exactly what they actually believe, because we can't get inside
> their heads or their hearts.
>
> At the time I wrote it, I didn't know how often she attended church, so
> I covered both sides of the spectrum.  My point still stands - we can't
> look into her heart so we can't know for certain if she's a "true
> believer" or not.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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