On the SCOTUS "too many Catholics and Jews" meme

I've been reading that here a lot lately, and it strikes me as odd.

First of all, since when is two "too many"?

As far as the Catholic contingent is concerned, I suppose a lot of people are thinking that because the Catholic church is staunchly anti-choice that means having "too many" Catholics on the bench could put Roe v Wade in danger or something. But would replacing a few of them with a few fundamentalist Protestants really make any difference?

And if we were to start all over with a Baptist, a Mormon, a Catholic, a Presbyterian, a Jehovah's Witness, a Lutheran and a Jew, who would be screaming "there are too many Christians! need diversity!"? Very few, I would imagine.

Given the fact that a religious affiliation of one sort or another is an implicit requirement for consideration, frankly it makes no difference to me which flavor of believer they happen to be. Certainly far less important than their leanings either liberal or conservative is concerned anyway.

consideration. Justice would likely be better served if religious affiliation was a disqualification.

I'm not kidding. Why not? Many of us supported Judge Sotomayor. If we can get both diversity AND and decent judge why not? I also don't think the supreme court should be one third Jewish if we are only 8 percent of the population.

we really need to get into a four man, four woman, one LGBT court of which six must be Caucasian, one must be Hispanic, one African-American, and one Asian. Then we need to decide the appropriate mix of religions and non-religions among the nine.

"Mr President, your next selection is limited to an Asian woman who espouses a non-fundamentalist, mainstream Protestant religion. We have combed the database and there is a Justice of the Peace in northern Vermont who matches the requirements."

If you believe in fantasy, you have no business on a court because you are warp.

italian-american. We all don't think the same. If you took a poll a majority of catholics are pro-choice. We don't march lock step with the vatican or the pope. Am a liberal.