2012 Decoded talks about a Mormon- Catholic ticket:
A Mormon-Catholic Ticket Would be Groundbreaking and Typically AmericanRight now, the Supreme Court is 7-2 Catholic/Jewish, the Speaker of the House is Catholic, the Senate Majority leader is Mormon, the Veep is Catholic - a bad Catholic, but nonetheless still in the Catholic column - and the President is...well, who knows what he is.
When Elena Kagan was sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 2010, it was an historic event: For the first time in American history, there was no Protestant member of the nation's' highest court.
Could 2012 be a presidential ticket of a major party without a protestant?
Were Mitt Romney to be the Republican presidential nominee and were he to choose a Catholic running mate--say, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. or New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie--that would seem to be such an event. Of course, the Obama-Biden ticket was historically WASP-free, an African-American attendee of the United Church of Christ--until the Jeremiah Wright controversy church--and a Roman Catholic.
This saying something deeply significant about Protestant culture, but I'm not sure what exactly it is.
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Curious. Let us know if the answer to the question you pose begins to form. Incidentally your thorough review on McGrath's book is excellent and I left a comment there and offered a helpful vote as well.
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