In the midst of all the turmoil we are going through politically, America should sit back and marvel at how far this nation has come by 2012.
We have an African American President, Barack Obama!
We have an Irish Catholic Vice President, Joe Biden, the only Catholic since John F. Kennedy in 1960.
We have a Mormon Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.
We have a Supreme Court consisting of six Catholics (Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor) and three Jews (Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan), and also an African American (Clarence Thomas), an Hispanic, (Sonia Sotomayor) and three women (Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan) on the Court.
And we have the third woman Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, after two earlier ones (Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice (one with Jewish heritage and one African American).
So we have a lot to be proud of in 2012, with the tremendous amount of diversity!