Supreme Court justices want to erect a 'Christian nation' over America's 'ashes': Constitutional lawyer
Sarah K. BurrisMay 05, 2022
2022.05.09 06:06
May 05, 2022
Washington, DC - January 6, 2021: Pro-Trump protester with Christian Cross seen during rally around at Capitol building (Photo: Lev Radin/Shutterstock)
After Politico published a leaked draft of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade one constitutional lawyer fears the decision could put other laws like Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Obergefell v. Hodges at risk.
Writing for Religion Dispatches, Andrew Seidel explained that "Alito’s opinion makes pretty damn clear: The end of Roe is just the beginning."
Christian nationalists helped put former President Donald Trump into power to pack the courts so that further restrictions can be imposed. That means criminalizing abortion, banning contraception, and taking away LGBTQ rights.
"Alito’s lip service in his draft opinion about returning these issues to the states and to the people is disingenuous," explained Seidel. "The court could have decided a case like this at virtually any time, but waited until after it had completely gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County (2013) and Brnovich (2020) and after it had upheld partisan gerrymandering in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019). Those decisions protect the power of the conservative white Christian who would otherwise be subsumed in a demographic tide that would keep them out of office for good."
The separation of church and state has traditionally prevented Christian nationalism from reigning over the laws of the United States. But with far-right, activist judges, like Alito, Supreme Court rulings can begin and end with religion.
"Some will disagree because Alito phrases it as 'morality,' but that’s the point," Seidel continued, "he’s forced to adopt euphemisms for imposing his conservative Christianity on us all."
He went on to recall a key moment when during oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said it outright: “How is your interest anything but a religious view?”
The anti-abortion ruling isn't the only one the Supreme Court is looking to as part of their attempts to break down church-state separation.
Seidel cites Carson v. Makin, in which the court will likely say that the government is required to fund religious education. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District will allow a state-funded employee to impose his or her own personal beliefs on students.
"These are not isolated political flashpoints or 'culture wars.' These are all part of the deliberate conservative project to undermine and ultimately kill American public schools," he explained.
Seidel closes by explaining that the fall of the separation of church and state will ultimately kill protections for "equality without exception" and "freedom without favor."
"That separation is America. And if the justices finally tear down the constitutional wall that ensures that separation, they will be tearing down America and erecting on its ashes a Christian nation," he said.
Read the full column at Religion Dispatches.
Copied from a "Raw Story" webpage by WM, May 9th 2022.
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2022.05.09 06:21
2022.05.09 09:27
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/918/in-god-we-trust
Since 1956 “In God We Trust” has been the official motto of the United States. Its use on U.S. currency dates to the Civil War. Though opponents argue that the phrase amounts to a governmental endorsement of religion and thus violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment, federal courts have consistently upheld the constitutionality of the national motto.
*I think that America is more likely to be "Christian nation"than not. At the same
time it is unfair to favor "God". I wonder if a religion is a posion or a medicine.
2022.05.11 07:34
어제는 어버이날 기념 가요무대에서 부모에 관한 노래를 들으면서
얼핏 서양과 동양의 문화 종교적 차이에 대한 생각이 머리에 떠올라
적어 봅니다.
"서양인들은 신앞에 죄인이고 동양인들은 부모 앞에 불효자식이다."
그리스도교 국가에서는 아무리 선한 사람도 죄인이라고 해야
다른 사람들이 용납하고 유교국가에서는 아무리 효도를 잘하는
자식이라도 불효자라고 해야 다른사람들이 효자라고 합니다.
둘다 사회질서를 잡고 통치하기 위한 장치(Frame)가 아닐까
생각해 봅니다.
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This is a sign and symptom that Christianity is going down the drain in America.
Very similar examples show in the history of the world. For example;
1. Putin's invasion of Ukraine by the desperate Putin as he was going down the drain
2. Lieutenant General Leopoldo Galtieri's invasion of the Falkland Islands to save his face.
3. Other numerous incidents too many to be mentioned...
All these desperate attempts resulted in the failures of the invaders.
In the end, Christian religions, together with all other religions, will destroy themselves.
The end of Roe may be just beginning. So will the end of Christianity in America.