Recently, Charles Blow of the New York Times noted that, if Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice, there will be 6 Catholics, 2 Jews, and only 1 Protestant on the Supreme Court. This is a sharp reversal from the situation 30 years ago where there were 8 Protestants and one (very liberal) Catholic on the Court. Blow asks, "Does/should this matter? Why?"
Here's what I think:
