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LINK The Supreme Court should stop taking religious beliefs so seriously

With a conservative super-majority on the Supreme Court, it’s no surprise that the justices are handing victory after victory to the Christian Right. This week was dominated by the revelation that conservative Christians were about to achieve their biggest victory ever after decades of reshaping the Court (and dismissing all the people who’d be hurt by their decisions).

But far less noticed is how this Court has allowed religion to circumvent the rules altogether.

We’ve gone from occasional (newsworthy) religious exemptions—like when Catholic nuns said signing a piece of paper violated their faith, thus depriving “as many as 126,400 women” from accessing free contraception— to “religious freedom’ exemptions becoming the norm.

snytiger6 9 May 7
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SCOTUS leaned leftward from the late-1940s with a public school religion case (released time?) to the mid-1990s with same sex marriage. The 1950s and 1960s were “ours”. One of Trump’s nominees, Gorsuch, cleverly protected transexuals from employment discrimination.

We will overcome ... and with enough activism we may destroy the racist-religious GOP.

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By being so focused, SCOTUS correctly pins a bullseye on churches as real enemies of the people.

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