Another aspect of diversity

With the retirement of Supreme John Paul Stevens we have a chance to make the Supremes more diverse. The current court has two women, one Hispanic, and one black. We're getting there. Except in terms of religious diversity. With Stevens gone the rest of the Court is six Catholics and two Jews. This is in a country that is predominantly Protestant (for those who list a church preference) and Protestantism is much more diverse than Catholicism. A liberal Protestant is quite different from a conservative one.

That means we have only one flavor of Christianity on the Court. One way that might come into play: bring a gay marriage case before the Court; is the anti-gay side blinded by church doctrine or are they merely representing the natural order of things?

Leah Ward Sears of the Georgia Supremes is reportedly on Obama's short list as a replacement for Stevens. She seems to have a lot in one package -- she's female, black, and leans to the left. But on a crucial issue (at least to me) things don't look so rosy. What's her position on gay marriage? She carefully hasn't said. However, in her writings, she has implied: (1) marriage is about children, (2) "parents" are defined as the biological mother and father, (3) biological mother/father/child families deserve preference, and (4) all other structures are destructive to that special status. One wonders what she thinks of adoption. Does all this sound familiar? It comes straight out of many anti-gay playbooks.