I really hope that this is not what our friends on the right want:
Putting more evangelicals on the court will mean rulings more in tune with the religious convictions of churchgoers, said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville.
"We are not asking for persons merely to be moral," Mohler said. "We want them to be believers in the Lord Jesus Christ."
Unless Rev. Mohler was really quote out of context, that's not just dumb. It really is unconstitutional.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Rev. Mohler seems to want a religious test. He wants Senators to nominate specifically evangelical Christians. That's a religious test.
I hope our friends on the right will see the irony of the fact that they claim that they only want judges who interpret the Constitution, not rewrite it, even while they tell us that they want something different that the Constitution specifically forbids. I'm not confident they will.
-- Michael
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