Sotomayor brings receipts against the radical Supreme Court majority attacks on the constitution

"The Free Exercise Clause and Establishment Clause are equally integral in protecting religious freedom in our society, Sotomayor continued. "The first serves as 'a promise from our government,’ while the second erects a ’backstop that disables our government from breaking it' and 'start[ing] us down the path to the past, when [the right to free exercise] was routinely abridged.’”

• "Today, the Court once again weakens the backstop. It elevates one individual's interest in personal religious exercise, in the exact time and place of that individual's choosing, over society's interest in protecting the separation between church and state, eroding the protections for religious liberty for all. Today's decision is particularly misguided because it elevates the religious rights of a school official, who voluntarily accepted public employment and the limits that public employment entails, over those of his students, who are required to attend school and who this Court has long recognized are particularly vulnerable and deserving of protection. In doing so, the Court sets us further down a perilous path in forcing States to entangle themselves with religion, with all of our rights hanging in the balance. As much as the Court protests otherwise, today's decision is no victory for religious liberty."*

"It is not a victory for religious liberty—it's a victory for white evangelicals who have been waging their phony war on the war on Christmas. The coach, Joe Kennedy, purposefully set out to become a public spectacle, get on Fox News (which he did, repeatedly), get in with the deep-pocketed far right, and be their tool in order to get to here: an attack on the foundations of this nation and the furtherance of extremist white evangelical Christian religious."

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