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  <title>Obama's Supreme Court Nominee Why not a Freethinker? - Atheists Only - tribe.net</title>
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    <title>Obama's Supreme Court Nominee Why not a Freethinker?</title>
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      <name>Rocky</name>
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    <id>http://atheistsonly.tribe.net/thread/eca3e272-e82b-4784-8104-ea14239b1532#8a581331-9269-447c-981f-c788ee5f22ad</id>
    <updated>2009-05-26T19:22:33Z</updated>
    <published>2009-05-26T19:22:24Z</published>
    <summary type="html">Obama's Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor&#xD;
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Bio - http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2243&#xD;
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor#Abortion&#xD;
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The New Republic&#xD;
The Case Against Sotomayor by Jeffrey Rosen&#xD;
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6f-f497-4b19-9c63-04e10199a085&#xD;
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So she's certainly qualified but she's another Catholic (she would be the 6th Catholic), so she's totally against abortion but where is she on ILLEGAL immigration, amnesty and religion? &#xD;
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Why do we need another Catholic - why not a Freethinker? We haven't had a Freethinker on the Supreme Court since 1877. &#xD;
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Justice	         Affiliation&#xD;
John Roberts (Chief Justice) 	Catholic&#xD;
Stephen G. Breyer 	Jewish&#xD;
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 	Jewish&#xD;
Anthony M. Kennedy 	Catholic&#xD;
Antonin Scalia 	Catholic&#xD;
David H. Souter 	Episcopalian&#xD;
John Paul Stevens 	Protestant&#xD;
Clarence Thomas 	Catholic&#xD;
Samuel Alito 	Catholic&#xD;
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http://www.adherents.com/adh_sc.html&#xD;
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The Supreme Court needs an atheist&#xD;
http://www.examiner.com/x-8928-Philadelphia-Atheism-Examiner~y2009m5d1-The-Supreme-Court-needs-an-atheist&#xD;
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Religious Affiliation of the U.S. Supreme Court&#xD;
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In the chart at the bottom about half way down:&#xD;
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"David Davis, Ill. 1862-1877 14 Md. 1815 1886 Not a member of any church"&#xD;
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http://www.adherents.com/adh_sc.html&#xD;
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Join the "Separation of church and state" tribe - http://separationofchurchstate.tribe.net&#xD;
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    <dc:creator>Rocky</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2009-05-26T19:22:24Z</dc:date>
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