The Resumé Gap
October 31, 2005
Bush has apparently named another strong Catholic conservative to the high court in Sam Alito, dubbed “Scalito” by enemies and admirers alike. Good for him, an inspired pick after the Meirs disaster. At some point though, this parade of highly qualified and tough-as-nails Catholic conservative males on the Supreme Court has got to be bitter medicine for squishy and tolerant evangelical elites who had heretofore congratulated themselves for having penetrated the highest circles of accomplishment and merit. When it gets down to brass tacks, evangelicals just don’t tend to compile the stellar records of nominees like Chief Justice Roberts and Alito, preferring instead the soft genuflection of the Harriet Meirs’s of the world who glide upward through padded social networks (such as privileged law firms and state bar associations) where promotion and preference are always a function of having and making no enemies. What will it mean for the evangelical movement when Roe v. Wade is overturned by five Catholic males? We’re four-fifths of the way there now, and it is instructive to remember that it has taken a shrewd evangelical president to carry us to this point. This is a partnership all men of good will and sense ought to embrace. One must wonder though, how the evangelical elite will respond when the raison d’etre of their movement is vanquished by Catholic judges.
P.S. TNP Books editor Michael Brendan Dougherty reports that “The nomination of Judge Alito to the Supreme Court signals that in the titanic conflict between Freemasons and Roman Catholics, for control of the American Empire” and “the humiliation of Evangelical Harriet Miers serves as a kind of digestif for the Vatican’s stomach for power.”
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