The court which is not a court.
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richardf8 I was born in a liberal democracy. The fact that the government - federal or state - could not impose religious stricture on its citizens was a key part of being an American.
In the eighties the assault began. A two pronged attack by the religious right on the safety of every American who did not believe precisely as they did: first to impose their particular religious beliefs about "when life begins" on the entire nation regardless of what other faiths believed. Second, to institute "school vouchers" so that taxpayers would be forced to support their desire to instruct their children in the precepts that have given the world such blessings as the Crusades, the Thirty Years' war, and, yes, the Holocaust.
This week, after 40 years of well funded political malfeasance and a full frontal assault on the meaning of "advice and consent" a Supreme Court engineered by Mitch McConnell handed these people victory. Our democracy is irreversibly harmed both by the idea that one religion's attitudes toward abortion can be codified as law, and that my tax dollars can be used to teach the nation's children that I killed Christ.
I was born in a liberal democracy. With the rulings handed down this week by the McConnell Court, I find I do not live in one today.
In the eighties the assault began. A two pronged attack by the religious right on the safety of every American who did not believe precisely as they did: first to impose their particular religious beliefs about "when life begins" on the entire nation regardless of what other faiths believed. Second, to institute "school vouchers" so that taxpayers would be forced to support their desire to instruct their children in the precepts that have given the world such blessings as the Crusades, the Thirty Years' war, and, yes, the Holocaust.
This week, after 40 years of well funded political malfeasance and a full frontal assault on the meaning of "advice and consent" a Supreme Court engineered by Mitch McConnell handed these people victory. Our democracy is irreversibly harmed both by the idea that one religion's attitudes toward abortion can be codified as law, and that my tax dollars can be used to teach the nation's children that I killed Christ.
I was born in a liberal democracy. With the rulings handed down this week by the McConnell Court, I find I do not live in one today.
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Date: 2022-06-29 01:36 pm (UTC)Yeah, the David Bowie refrain that keeps running through my mind is 'This Is Not America'.
The rest of the world is going 'WTF, USA?'
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Date: 2024-12-07 10:44 pm (UTC)