Church Confers Sainthood on Supreme Court Justice

[Jerome]

Saint Thurgood

The 2009 General Convention of the Episcopal Church added Marshall to the church's liturgical calendar of "Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the Saints" designating May 17 as his feast day.

Courtney Brown, who served on the vestry of St. Philip's with Justice Marshall, recalls:

St. Philip's was the most progressive Episcopal church in the country.

[Marshall] thought Jesus was the hippest cat that walked on the face of the Earth.

Brown touched on the timeliness of the tribute, given that Elena Kagan, who served as a law clerk for Marshall, was recently nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. Brown said that Marshall nicknamed Kagan "Shorty" and "Lil' Bit."

She's going to eat [Scalia] up

 

[Alcott]

What an underhanded tactic to get her confirmed!

 

[ReformedBaptist]

"Consciously or unconsciously, Thurgood absorbed the essentials of the faith and understood that Jesus' faith has as its core belief that we are all created equal in God's eyes and that we are all called to live that belief out in our own lives and to work to realize that belief in the community in which we live," Brandt said.

Does that stand up to Scripture?