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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 04:12 PM Jan 2018

Religious Right Counting On Court System & SCOTUS To Install Theocracy In US.

By severely stacking the courts with religious extremist or RW judges the religious right hope to establish religion in government and Christianity as official religion in the US in particular. The refusal of the Supreme Court to hear a case on "freedom of religion" is a sign that we may be on the way there.

The goal is to allow government and private services be dictated by religious beliefs. Such allowances would include vital services and health care if the RW religions have their way. The other part of this move is to allow the federal government to give tax money directly to churches and religious institutions. Prayer in public schools and funding church schools with property taxes are another area that the right wing religions plan to make inroads.

We are in a time where Trump could appoint one or more religious fanatics to the Supreme Court. Even now the GOP is working at stacking the entire judicial system with radical jurists who would trash the US as we know it

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Religious Right Counting On Court System & SCOTUS To Install Theocracy In US. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jan 2018 OP
I seriously do not want to live in a theocracy. Initech Jan 2018 #1
The Chances Are Sadly Good That Trump Will Get 1 or 2 or even 3 Appointments. TheMastersNemesis Jan 2018 #2

Initech

(100,068 posts)
1. I seriously do not want to live in a theocracy.
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 04:17 PM
Jan 2018

And I will gladly tell the Christian right to go fuck themselves on this one. We cannot let it happen here.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
2. The Chances Are Sadly Good That Trump Will Get 1 or 2 or even 3 Appointments.
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 04:20 PM
Jan 2018

We know where he and the GOP are going. If you can own all or most of the referees it is hard to win against them. Several of our judges are quite old and getting more feeble.

I do not know how anyone can stop what is going on. Unless we get the Senate in the next few months it will almost impossible.

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