The Great Whitebread Hope
Cidu Bill on May 11th 2010
As soon as Supreme Court Justice Stevens announced his retirement and it became apparent that his likely replacements were all either Jewish or Catholic, Ann Coulter wrote an article sounding the alarm there would no longer be any Protestants on the Supreme Court. At the time, I thought this was an odd thing to even notice, and I figured it was just Ann Coulter being Ann Coulter. After all, she’s been having a tough time of it lately — suddenly ignored by the media in favor of Sarah Palin, who’s prettier and not half as intelligent — so she has to make increasingly outrageous comments in order to get any attention.
But now the dearth of SCOTUS Protestantism is being offered up as news by organizations such as the Associated Press, so I have to wonder: Is this something American Protestants are really upset about, or is this a media-manufactured issue like “the War on Christmas”?
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