(February 19, 2016 at 2:58 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: If a SCOTUS justice is any good, they will check any religious baggage at the door. It would be nice to have an atheist there for the sake of diversity but at this point in time, just give me one that doesn't interject his religious values into his court opinions. Candidates who fit that bill are plentiful but trying to find an atheist would be much harder. It would also complicate the approval process - something we absolutely can't have in this particular case. It's not the right time for this battle.
What even our Christian left does not get, is if the entire court were made up of 5 right wing Muslims, and 4 liberal Muslims, the result would be the same. Instead of focusing on society, the court would be focused on religion. Which is why the founders put in the oath of office "No religious test".
Now again, I am not delusional. I know that in the west religious people will apply and run for office, there is no way to stop that. But, it is most certainly reasonable to insist, that your personal bias does not override common law.
But when you say "Now is not the right time", no, sorry, that plays into the insecurities of the majority. To them, there is never a right time.
Even if I believed the church that ruled over Galileo, as some argue, that they didn't arrest him because of his beliefs, which they did, but as some argue, they did that to protect him from persecution, is utter bullshit.
This boils down to evolution here. The dominate individual or group simply does not like their social order upset. Progress certainly isn't about getting revenge on the top, but human's insecurities far too often lead the top of the social order to fear change.
