Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia once lamented the fact that there was not more diversity on the bench. He was not referring to more African-Americans or more gays or more women. He was specifically referring to evangelicals, or born-again Christians.

The fact is that while some polls show as many as 42 percent of the American public claim to be born-again evangelicals, arguably, not one of them has ever sat on the Supreme Court. And don’t expect that to change any time soon. As Scalia pointed out, our most recent court consisted of six Catholics and three Jews.

In 1988, working for the George H.W. Bush campaign for president, I was confronted with evangelical pastors and denominational leaders complaining about the extra legal and accounting expenses they were incurring.

We were told that the IRS was unfairly targeting their nonprofits and actually requiring them to change doctrines to meet newly, governmentally created criteria. For example, new IRS rules were requiring that all religious organization have sacerdotal functions or lose their tax exemption. But must the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association actually conduct communion services and perform marriages to be a legitimate religious nonprofit?

The problem was that many of such …