Request for info: religious affiliations of Supremes

[Thomas C. Berg]

* Catholics -- Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy
* Jews -- Breyer, Ginsburg
* Protestants -- Rehnquist (Lutheran), O'Connor
(Episcopalian), Souter (Episcopalian), Stevens (I'm less
certain; I think Presbyterian, but perhaps Unitarian)

For the first time ever, the Court has a majority of
non-Protestants.  The Protestants are all mainliners --
there are no evangelicals -- although two of the Catholics,
Scalia and Thomas, are probably what can be called
"traditionalist" in religious orientation.  With apologies
for the following plug, see Berg and Ross, Some Religiously
Devout Justices:  Historical Notes and Comments, 81
Marquette L. Rev. 383, 400-14 (1998), and Christopher
Wolfe's comments on us in the same issue, for a discussion
of the relationship between that "traditionalist" religious
orientation and their work on the Court.  For various
reasons, the mainline/traditionalist divide tells you more
about cultural and political attitudes these days than does
denominational affiliation.

Tom Berg




On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:05:02 -0600 "Gibbens, Daniel G"
<dgibbens at OU.EDU> wrote:

> If handy, please post.
>
> Dan Gibbens
> University of Oklahoma College of Law

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Thomas C. Berg, Cumberland Law School
Samford University
Birmingham, AL 35229
(205)726-2415
Email: tcberg at samford.edu