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Silly SCOTUS Busy on a Non-case and
a Non-existent Gay Couple 07/06/2023 |
Sometimes history—including current history—is so absurd that it has to make one laugh (as well as cry). People with intense ideologies–and fascism is nothing if it is not an
intense ideology–tend not to have very good senses of humor.
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This is one reason that, believe it or not, drag queens have been dragged into current political “discourse” (“discourse” in quotes for
obvious reasons) where certain politicians (for example in Florida) are keen to outlaw drag shows. | “Welcome to DeSantis!” Randy Rainbow satirizes the Florida governor with a parody of “Welcome to the 60s” from Hairspray. |
If you don’t have a sense of humor—and
ideologues rarely do—you will never get drag. While on that topic, I highly recommend Randy Rainbow’s satiric look (above) at this particular issue in Florida’s America. But two more calls for sense of humor—as well as sense of
outrage—have emerged from recent SCOTUS decisions. The first concerns the decision to disallow debt relief for Americans when it comes to past student loans. Supreme Court judge Elena Kagan makes the point in her
objection to this ruling from her colleagues that it really is none of their business telling Congress what it can and cannot do on such matters as these. |
The Supreme Court’s decisions on student loans and affirmative action sharply divide the justices along ideological lines, Supreme Court analyst Marcia Coyle
tells PBS NewsHour | She summarizes her objection more eloquently than I do: In a case not a case, the majority overrides the combined judgement of the Legislative and Executive branches with the consequence of eliminating loan forgiveness for 43 million Americans. |
The case they took up is not a case (for the Supreme Court to decide). It is a case for legislators and executive branch of government to decide—which they did. But that case is not the sole rabbit hole
that the current Supreme Court, thoroughly compromised by at least two members hobnobbing with right-wing billionaires with cases before the court, has chosen to enter. The second rabbit hole concerns their decision to support a startup web designer who wanted to deny a gay couple her not-yet-launched services to announce their wedding. |
This is as silly as silly gets. Why? Because, in a final absurd twist to this conjectural farce, the gay couple in the complaint does not exist.* Then-wannabe web-maker Lorie Smith, who brought the complaint to the court— | New Republic staff writer Melissa Gira Grant questioned the straight man who supposedly requested the gay marriage website in 303 Creative v. Elenis, suggesting a
false basis for the conjectural case enabling bias against LGBTQ people. MSNBC |
and won—made up a fictitious case. The alleged requester of her services, identified as a man named Stewart, is straight, married to a woman, and is himself a web designer. Yet the Supreme Court, so eager to deny gays as well as women their rights, never bothered to check on him. To be continued |
Queries for Contemplation Do you agree that a sense of humor is often lacking in far- right politics? How do you develop your sense of humor—even in hard times? |
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