Seriously important, especially since the SCOTUS just ruled for a Christian mail carrier who refused to work Sundays. She took the job knowing it would be required, then demanded special accommodations for her religious faith. You know, something Christians feel they have a right to, yet no other religion should be given. The post office she worked for tried to accommodate her but due to staffing needs they had to schedule her to work Sundays and she threw an entitled fit. So the court ruled for her right to have her religion take priority over everyone else and any other needs. If I was an employer, I would be wary of hiring Christians. Seriously this court is creating a theocracy for Christians. No other religion or atheist need to apply. It is a scary time, and this bode bad for the upcoming case of a made up pretend business to challenge anti-discrimination laws requiring equal treatment for same-sex couples. Hugs
Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch:
Emboldened by recent Supreme Court decisions upholding prayer in schools, crosses erected on public lands, and flying Christian flags on public buildings, right-wing activists intend to “go on offense” by pushing Christian nationalist policies at all levels of government and society.
Among those leading the charge is Kelly Shackelford, president of First Liberty, which was integral to laying the groundwork for the right’s spate of Supreme Court victories. During a recent appearance on an Intercessors For America broadcast, Shackelford announced that his organization has launched a Restoring Faith In America campaign to mobilize far-right Christians to rush into the spaces opened by these court rulings and “occupy it”
“Everywhere that crosses went down, they go back up,” Shackelford declared. “Everywhere the 10 Commandments was taken into the closet, it comes back out. Everywhere that prayer was taken out, it goes back in. Everything has changed.”
As you’ll hear in the video below, Shackleford’s group plans a “major push” to inflict Jesus on public schools in a “thousand different” ways and “occupy the land God won for us” through the US Supreme Court. He last appeared here in May 2022 when he raged to Fox News about employers “forcing” the COVID vaccine on workers. Of note, First Liberty Institute is the former employer of anti-LGBTQ Texas federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who is attempting to ban abortion pills and PrEP insurance coverage.
The “don’t shove your sexuality down my throat” crowd wants to shove their religion down yours.
That’s how hypocrisy works.
And let’s remember: RELIGION is a LIFESTYLE CHOICE.
Yes, childhood experience is a strong factor, but there are plenty of churches, mosques, and other groups that are overjoyed to help you give up your false religion and adopt their true one.
Another example of hypocrisy: Dumb Idiot Ham bemoans “evolution” being shoved down the throats of kids in schools and churches everywhere while planning to shove down his own young earth creation fantasies down the throats of kids in schools and churches everywhere.
Is it any wonder why the number of people who identify as Christian or religious is shrinking
Christianity in the U.S. is quickly shrinking and may no longer be the majority religion within just a few decades, research finds
https://www.cbsnews.com/new…
And as the numbers shrink amongst religions, those still within the faiths will be the most diehard, outspoken and obnoxious. I hope they continue to shrink until they are no longer relevant at all. That’s what is driving them nuts as it is…they are becoming less relevant and it hurts their feelings!
That’s the flaw in their plan. Back when prayer and religion were allowed in schools (the 50s), kids were a little more well-behaved/obedient/subservient as well as overall more religious. They were all mostly Protestant or Catholic. So it was easy just to fall in line. Now we have various religions represented in schools, and I am sure there will be maliciously complaint teachers who will have non-Christian prayers in their class.
It’s less about that so much as it’ll be clearer to kids something ugly’s being forced on them. Instead of just being able to think ‘It’s always been this way.’
Which explains why this guy and his cohorts are in such a hurry to force it on everyone.
The “religious freedom” crowd will now push their minority, theo-fascist “religious beliefs” down everyone else’s throats. And you will see there will be no tolerance of anyone whose faith (or no faith) is different from theirs.
Of course! Freedom of religion means you are free to worship MY god in any way I approve of.
I get the feeling that when these evangelicals say they are going to take the 10 Commandments back out of the closet, they mean the Protestant version of the 10 Commandments. Well, unlike the Catholic version, the Protestant version forbids graven images. (See commandment #2) So maybe they first should consider converting to Catholicism, since stone depictions of the 10 Commandments are themselves graven images, and are thus self-forbidding.
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This sect (christian nationalists) should be very careful, and probably ought to spend a few hours in that Jesus-prescribed closet visiting with their Father who will hear them then, before deciding to inflict anyone else with anything they feel they have the power to inflict. Shame on them.
Also, no one has ever been forbidden to pray anywhere, at any time, at least by US law in the US. As is frequently said in educational circles, as long as there is testing in schools, there will also be prayer. Meanwhile, publicly-funded entities have been forbidden to force such things, as it should be. But I’m not an Opus Dei SCOTUS justice…
I try really hard not to judge people, but the people written about above make it difficult. Underneath the anger they cause me, I worry for them. I know this is a secular site, and long may it remain so. I’m not proselytizing, I am simply trying to show a Christian way; their way ain’t it. Back to playtime!
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Sorta OT, sorta not; here are a coupla links if anyone wants to click and read. I receive and read this newsletter, and they’ve given extra attention to Pride (they’re attentive year-round) this year, for reasons which are well-known to us.
First, enjoy: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2023/06/links-drag-queens-horror-more/
Then enjoy: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2023/06/cover-snark-great-reader-submissions/ .
Cover snark is always hilarious, and is the second-most reason I subscribe to this. First-most is they support union- and especially writers’s rights. Seriously, enjoy at your leisure.
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