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Political Hacks &
Religious Quacks: Christofascism in SCOTUS 07/12/2024 |
[FROM THE ARCHIVE: July 11, 2022] Recently I learned that Leonard Leo played a major role in Senator McConnell’s most nefarious deed: His refusal to allow President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland even a vote. We continue with our look back at the impact of Leonard Leo and Opus Dei on American politics. |
Opus Dei champion that he is, Leo pushed far-right judges onto the Supreme Court, who find the whole idea of pluralism and separation of church and state repugnant. |
SCOTUS recently broke precedent about federal money for church schools, and followed it up with a ruling that school districts cannot prohibit high school football coach’s prayers on the field. I received this e-mail in response:
No longer protecting the |
ABC News‘ Devin Dwyer reports on the Supreme Court ruling for high school football coach Joe Kennedy over his post-game prayers with
students at the 50-yard line. |
separation of church and state! Conservative religious fanatics victorious again thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision this morning! Of course, this should come as no surprise–Opus Dei has never liked the separation of church and state. Consider Franco’s dictatorship
where Opus Dei played a very active role in marrying far right-wing Catholicism with right-wing politics and industry for decades of rule. This decision to turn its back on pluralism shows clearly in the SCOTUS decision to gut 49 years of precedent and kill Roe v. Wade, since most religions do not recognize a fetus as a
human being until a certain number of months (including most Christians, among them Saint and doctor of the church, Thomas Aquinas). The Jewish tradition (that of Jesus) believes the fetus is not a human until it leaves the womb. |
In this pre-Dobbs video, Rabbi Dr. Rachel Mikva lays out Jewish thought on abortion and when life begins. CTS
chicagoHD | Clearly Dobbs demonstrates venom toward women and especially poor women, many of whom are women
of color. This hardly echoes Jesus’ teaching of a “preferential option for the poor,” does it? |
What research did Alito do into the impact Dobbs will have on poor women? In fact, Dobbs will kill poor women and render poor families even more poor. The most recent appointee to this unSupreme Court gave a speech this past summer under Senator McConnell’s auspices–and with him in attendance–and
declared that people should not see her and her colleagues on the Court as “political hacks.” At the time, I couldn’t help feeling déjà vu—oh, yes, it was President Nixon publicly declaring that “I am not a crook.” That happened shortly before it was demonstrated to the world that he was so much a crook that he was forced to resign the presidency—AND to be pardoned for his crimes by the next president. |
Not only is the current Supreme Court political hacks with their decision-making, but they are also religious quacks. Opus Dei is religious quackery. So too is much of the evangelical version of Christianity. Check it out. |
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Mixing fascism and Christianity is religious quackery of a very serious kind. Its name is Christofascism. Every Supreme Court judge who signed off on this so-called legal decision, which utterly contradicts
the 13th and 14th amendment that prohibit servitude and the control over women’s bodies that was integral to the slave system, is acting out of Christofascism and is pleasing forces of Christofascism. |
Adapted from Matthew Fox, “Opus Dei,” in Fox, The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved,” pp. 106-124. See also Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and
Society.
Banner Image: “It’s Called the High Court Because You Can Buy Justices at 30,000 Feet.” Protestor marks the first anniversary of the Dobbs decision at the Supreme Court. Photo by Susan Melkisethian on Flickr. |
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