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The Silliness—and Clear and Present Danger–of Today’s SCOTUS 07/07/2023 |
We are meditating on justice as a spiritual virtue and we are examining a particularly stunning action of the recent Supreme Court. This court just passed a law saying it’s
okay for a gay-hating religious believer who is a businessperson to deny a gay couple her service.
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But it turns out that the person named in the lawsuit, Stewart, never asked the plaintiff for her
services as a web-designer because he is not getting married and furthermore he is not gay. He has stepped up and said he never approached her since he himself is a | Harbinger of things to come? In her 2017 confirmation hearing, then-Senator Al Franken pressed Amy Coney Barrett on her work for the anti-gay/trans hate group Alliance Defending Freedom. NowThis
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web designer and would not need her services, and because he has been happily married to a woman for 15 years. Says one commentator: Smith is so motivated by hatred of LGBTQ+ people that she invented an imaginary grievance, lied about it repeatedly through the various tiers of the court system, and eventually got license to deny service to a gay couple who doesn’t, technically, exist.* Thus the Supreme Court, all decked out in its black finery and aristocratic self-importance, bathed in its solemnity and righteous black robes, took on this case without checking on whether the party involved was real or not. Is this a Mickey Mouse
supreme court or what? |
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corruption, aristocracy (“let them eat cake”) and stupidity reign. Six judges got suckered into legalizing a more-than-stupid precedent in their eagerness to support homophobia and religious prejudice. Smith’s
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demonstrating no shame (fascism rarely demonstrates either shame or a sense of humor), shrugged their shoulders: “No one should have to wait to be punished by the government to challenge an unjust
law,” said one. The conclusion? It’s okay to invent a grievance and make up adversaries and go to certain courts and win. Is this Supreme Court now a game, a political puppet show? And those pulling the
strings of six puppets? I think we know. What follows is neither humorous nor silly. It is a dangerous “license to hate.” |
Can an atheist businessman refuse to serve Christians? Can a liberal refuse to serve republicans, a Muslim refuse to serve Jews—or vice versa? Can a gay businessman refuse to serve (homophobic) | CNN anchor Brianna
Keilar interview s Human Rights Campaign president Kelly Robinson on the 303Creative v. Elenis decision as “part of a campaign of hate and discrimination to target LGBT+ people for political points.” |
Christians? A slippery legal slope indeed. Said one legal scholar: “This ruling blows a gaping hole in prior protections from discrimination” including race and religion and offers “a green light” to any business
owners wanting to refuse service. Where’s the justice in a court like this? To be continued |
*I highly recommend this excellent article on this matter: License to
hate by Gordon Bonnet on Skeptophilia.com. See Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society. Banner image: Protest in front of the Supreme Court as arguments in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis on claims of religion vs.gay rights. Photo by Victoria Pickering on
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Queries for Contemplation Where do you see the results of a ruling on a non-existent defendant going in this recent decision of the Supreme Court? |
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