Ernie : I wish I had a theory; if I let this news ferment for a while something ought to occur to me. But, zounds, now that you think of it, this is truly amazing --and a real disservice to the American religious majority. There is a need for some kind of action to deal with this . No idea at all exactly what, but silence is not an option. Billy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - In a message dated 4/14/2010 5:59:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Wow. No idea what this means, but I'm sure Billy will have a theory... _http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/apr/14/stephen-colb ert/colbert-claims-justice-john-paul-stevens-last-prot/_ (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/apr/14/stephen-colbert/colbert-claims- justice-john-paul-stevens-last-prot/) In addition to Sotomayor, five of the justices are Catholic, including Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are both Jewish. Historically speaking, the religious affiliations of the current court are quite unusual, according to a report and study done by NPR's Nina Totenberg. For decades, the court was majority Protestant, she reports. It was Catholics and Jews who were the anomaly. That shift is even more pronounced when you look at the nation's religious affiliations. According to the CIA World Factbook, a little more 50 percent of Americans identify as Protestant. Catholics make up about 24 percent of the population, while Jews represent about 1.7 percent of the population. So, back to Colbert's claim. He's correct that Stevens is a Protestant and he's the last one on the Supreme Court bench. Colbert's first statement on the Truth-O-Meter gets a True. = _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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