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slightlv

(2,786 posts)
2. Extremely ugly...
Sat May 14, 2022, 06:14 AM
May 2022

and this time, overtly add religion to the mix. By stripping a woman's autonomy over her own body, listing abortion as a serious moral issue, Alito has interjected a single religious sect's belief as the underlying reason. Even his legal citations are from the 17th century and steeped in church law of the time. It's blatantly unconstitutional, violating the First Amendment; supposedly containing those matters that the Founders saw as most important in the new country. I fear we'll have so much hatred, threats, and violence we'll be thrown into an "Irish Troubles" situation, but fighting it on many different fronts.

What happens when a woman, denied an abortion, sues for discrimination based on her First Amendment Religious Freedom Rights? Do the judges side with the Constitution? Or do they tell her she now no longer has religious freedom? If the latter, how long before the corporations start suing because of all these exceptions Christians have made sure they have - like displaying all their fetishes all over the office area? Or proselytizing anywhere, anytime they want... etc...? I know more than a few HR's who've really had it with having to bend over backwards to accommodate them, cause they're never satisfied. What does the court do then - when it's Big Business vs Christianity? What will the Church try to do to the State? There are so many ways this could get so much worse... and all it'll take is stripping women of a right they've had for half a century.

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