Just as everyone predicted, the religious haters and right wing thugs will now try to chip away at all the rights of the LGBTQ+ people including same-sex marriage just as they did with abortion rights until they managed to kill it. Damn these religious right fundamentalist fanatics who desperately want to return to the 1950s when white men were automatically in charge and women were subservient to them. They are desperate for the time when white men had all the rights. Hugs
“What should our strategy be now that we’re getting these precedents? I think we have to flood the zone. I think we have to find good complaints, and this is why First Liberty is so important, everybody.
“It’s FirstLiberty.org, I do a lot of different things with them, we do a lot of events together. They are on the cutting edge. They play to win. And not many groups can say, ‘Oh yeah, we go to the Supreme Court, we win nine-nothing, and we went last year and they won the Coach Kennedy case.’
“Pretty amazing, guys. They are top-tier. FirstLiberty.org.” – Charlie Kirk, interviewing Kelly Shackelford of the anti-LGBTQ hate group, First Liberty Institute, which represents the anti-gay bakers in Oregon.
Welp.
Can’t say Hillary didn’t warn us about what would happen to the courts.
But she didn’t smile enough. And she was too shrill, and lecturing. And Benghazi. And her emails. And her pantsuits. And she just didn’t excite me. And she talked to Goldman-Sachs. And both sides are the same, anyway, so why bother?
Very corrupt. The plaintiff had no standing to even bring a lawsuit. This is so outrageous!! Unbelievable what’s going on with our judicial system.
Exactly–this case NEVER should have even been HEARD. It’s a FARCE!
EDIT: USED by a corrupt Court to twist the law to suit its perverse agenda, to rule according to its WHIMS, nothing else.
I agree. The whole thing was made up. And I’m sure SCOTUS knew that. And the conservative majority made a horrible, completely wrong ruling. Proving the conservative majority doesn’t give a rats ass about equality, fairness or honesty. I think we need major changes to the supreme court system. Term limits for starters. No one should have that position for life or that much absolute power. And I hate the word “supreme”. It sounds too much like the “supreme being” (jeezus or gawd), the “supreme leader” like Iran’s horrible ruler. There should be no supreme anything. (Except maybe The Supremes) The mere term suggests they are above the rest of us. Not to be questioned or challenged.
Which is exactly what the rightists on the Court are claiming: absolutist rights to no oversight, total freedom from checks and balances.
By the time Hillary ran for office in 2016 the court was already on the road to being captured by the Republicans AND had been corrupt for decades already.
The Dems didn’t run on the Supreme Court for years like the Repubs did and in not doing so, allowed them to take the court.
I have long held that anti-gay discrimination on account of religion is in itself a form of religious discrimination. Not because being gay is a religion, but because we are discriminated against since we don’t follow the tenets of THEIR religion, which is none of their business. It is a privileging of THEIR religious beliefs over OUR civil rights (as well as our religious beliefs, or lack thereof) in the public accommodations sphere.
The discriminators have ‘blurry boundaries.” Malignant narcissism is like that.
If you claim your refusal to serve anyone is based on your sincerely held religious beliefs . . .
And you don’t have to justify those beliefs with any kind of logical argument. The rightists aren’t required to. All they–and therefore WE–have to do is declare that’s the reason. The Court doesn’t require you to belong to any church or cite any biblical texts.
“The Court doesn’t require you to belong to any church or cite any biblical texts.”
THAT is such an outrage. God-addled plaintiffs should be require to cite chapter letter and verse from fairytale book or their case is thrown out.
The email lady did warn us. But she rubbed some people the wrong way, Besides, how bad can Trump really be?
An oldie, but still relevant.
Very much so. Plus this reminder.
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