Despite the tiny number of Episcopalians in America - 2 percent
or so of the population—more presidents, senators, and Supreme
Court justices have been Episcopalian than have been identified
with any other religious affiliation. That suggests that maybe
Episcopalians have some gifts for politics.  Now there could be
some less-than-flattering reasons for this, of course. The
Episcopal Church was, before the Revolution, the Church of
England, and so it was well-established in British colonies, and
many of the best, brightest, and richest belonged to it. Despite
fifty years of decline, it has continued to be a church
populated by the privileged; Episcopalians have the highest
median income of any American religious group except Jews.  But
along with that high income goes high levels of education. As
Lisa Keister points out in her book Getting Rich, Episcopalians
tend to be better educated than most of the population, so
Episcopalians have some knowledge as well as some social clout.
More importantly, Episcopali