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jollyrebelwinner · 2 days

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#england #english #britain #british #criminal #justice #system #injustice #free speech #freedom of speech #1a

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ms-boogie-man · 10 hours

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#1776 #We the People #2A #1A #liberalism is a disease

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mostlysignssomeportents · 10 months

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The "religious liberty" angle for overturning the overturning of Dobbs

Frank Wilhoit’s definition of “conservativism” remains a classic:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

Conservativism is, in other words, the opposite of the rule of law, which is the idea that the law applies equally to all. Many of America’s most predictably weird moments live in the tension between the rule of law and the conservative’s demand to be protected — but not bound — by the law.

Think of the Republican women of Florida whose full-throated support for the perfomatively cruel and bigoted policies of Ron Desantis turned to howls of outrage when the governor signed a law “overhauling alimony” (for ��overhauling,” read “eliminating”):

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/this-is-a-death-sentence-for-me-florida-republican-women-say-they-will-switch-parties-after-desantis-approves-alimony-law-34563230

This is real leopards-eating-people’s-faces-party stuff, and it’s the only source of mirth in an otherwise grim situation.

But out of the culture-war bullshit backfires, none is so sweet and delicious as the religious liberty self-own. You see, under the rule of law, if some special consideration is owed to a group due to religious liberty, that means all religions. Of course, Wilhoit-drunk conservatives imagine that “religious liberty” is a synonym for Christian liberty, and that other groups will never demand the same carve outs.

Remember when Louisiana decided spend tax dollars to fund “religious” schools under a charter school program, only to discover — to their Islamaphobic horror — that this would allow Muslim schools to get public subsidies, too?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/louisiana_n_1593995

(They could have tried the Quebec gambit, where hijabs and yarmulkes are classed as “religious” and therefore banned for public servants and publicly owned premises, while crosses are treated as “cultural” and therefore exempted — that’s some primo Wilhoitism right there)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-francois-legault-crucifix-religious-symbols-1.4858757

The Satanic Temple has perfected the art of hoisting religious liberty on its own petard. Are you a state lawmaker hoping to put a giant Ten Commandments on the statehouse lawn? Go ahead, have some religious liberty — just don’t be surprised when the Satanic Temple shows up to put a giant statue of Baphomet next to it:

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/17/639726472/satanic-temple-protests-ten-commandments-monument-with-goat-headed-statue

Wanna put a Christmas tree in the state capitol building? Sure, but there’s gonna be a Satanic winter festival display right next to it:

https://katv.com/news/offbeat/satanic-temple-display-installed-at-illinois-capitol-next-to-nativity-scene-menorah-decorations-snake-serpent-satanic-temple-springfield-christmas-tree

And now we come to Dobbs, and the cowardly, illegitimate Supreme Court’s cowardly, illegitimate overturning of Roe v Wade, a move that was immediately followed by “red” states implementing total, or near-total bans on abortion:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/#crisis-pregnancy-centers

These same states are hotbeds of “religious liberty” nonsense. In about a dozen of these states, Jews, Christians, and Satanists are filing “religious liberty” challenges to the abortion ban. In Indiana, the Hoosier Jews For Choice have joined with other religious groups in a class action, to argue that the “religious freedom” law that Mike Pence signed as governor protects their right to an abortion:

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/21/legal-strategy-that-could-topple-abortion-bans-00102468

Their case builds on precedents from the covid lockdowns, like decisions that said that if secular exceptions to lockdown rules or vaccine mandates existed, then states had to also allow religious exemptions. That opens the door for religious exemptions to abortion bans — if there’s a secular rule that permits abortion in the instance of incest or rape, then faith-based exceptions must be permitted, too.

Some of the challenges to abortion rules seek to carve out religious exemptions, but others seek to overturn the abortion rules altogether, because the lawmakers who passed them explicitly justified them in the name of fusing Christian “values” with secular law, a First Amendment no-no.

As Rabbi James Bennett told Politico’s Alice Ollstein: “They’re entitled to their interpretation of when life begins, but they’re not entitled to have the exclusive one.”

In Florida, a group of Jewish, Buddhist, Episcopalian, Universalists and United Church clerics are challenging the “aiding and abetting” law because it restricts the things they can say from the pulpit — a classic religious liberty gambit.

Kentucky’s challenge comes from three Jewish women whose faith holds that life begins “with the first breath.” Lead plaintiff Lisa Sobel described how Kentucky’s law bars her from seeking IVF treatment, because she could face criminal charges for “discarding non-viable embryos” created during the process.

Then there’s the Satanic Temple, in court in Texas, Idaho and Indiana. The Satanists say that abortion is a religious ritual, and argue that the state can’t limit their access to it.

These challenges all rest on state religious liberty laws. What will happen when some or all of these reach the Supreme Court? It’s a risky gambit. This is the court that upheld Trump’s Muslim ban and the right of a Christian baker to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. It’s a court that loves Wilhoit’s “in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

It’s a court that’s so Wilhoit-drunk, it’s willing to grant religious liberty to bigots who worry about imaginary same-sex couples:

https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court

But in the meantime, the bigots and religious maniacs who want to preserve “religious liberty” while banning abortion are walking a fine line. The Becket Fund, which funded the Hobby Lobby case (establishing that religious maniacs can deny health care to their employees if their imaginary friends object), has filed a brief in one case arguing that the religious convictions of people arguing for a right to abortion aren’t really sincere in their beliefs:

https://becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com/20230118184008/Individual-Members-v.-Anonymous-Planitiff-Amicus-Brief.pdf

This is quite a line for Becket to have crossed — religious liberty trufans hate it when courts demand that people seeking religious exemptions prove that their beliefs are sincerely held.

Not only is Becket throwing its opposition to “sincerely held belief” tests under the bus, they’re doing so for nothing. Jewish religious texts clearly state that life begins at the first breath, and that the life of a pregnant person takes precedence over the life of the fetus in their uterus.

The kicker in Ollstein’s great article comes in the last paragraph, delivered by Columbia Law’s Elizabeth Reiner Platt, who runs the Law, Rights, and Religion Project:

The idea of reproductive rights as a religious liberty issue is absolutely not something that came from lawyers. It’s how faith communities themselves have been talking about their approach to reproductive rights for literally decades.

The Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop (I’m a grad, instructor and board member) is having its fundraiser auction to help defray tuition. I’ve donated a “Tuckerization” — the right to name a character in a future novel:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/clarion-sf-fantasy-writers-workshop-23-campaign/#/

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/11/wilhoitism/#hoosier-jews

[Image ID: Moses parting the Red Sea. On the seabed is revealed a Planned Parenthood clinic.]

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#pluralistic #religion #frank wilhoit #petard #gender #religious freedom #1a #abortion bans #dobbs #roe

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i-cant-find-a-damn-name · 7 months

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#dadzawa #dadzawa developed an 6 sense #aizawa shota #aizawa shota is the dad of 20 problematic children #bakugou katsuki #class 1a #1a #mha #mha meme's #mha fan #bnha

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aludraslytherin · 1 month

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Someone : Deku saved me! It means that he loves me!

Katsuki:

Ochako:

Iida:

Shouto:

Kirishima:

All Class 1A:

Hitoshi:

Eri:

Kouta:

Tall Bunny Lady:

Katsuki: He's a fucking hero you stupid cunt ! It's his job, you are not fucking special

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melaninglamour · 2 years

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Step aside

#black beauty #lightskin #melanin glowing #1a

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rabbits-of-negative-euphoria · 4 months

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I'm a libertarian and not a conservative. Satanism is still not a real religion because it has no genuine historical basis, but that is not what should keeps them at bay, rather, exists as such solely to defame Christianity and spite Christians; making it a hate group. Not saying a hate group CAN'T be a religion, but the government can absolutely choose not to associate or sponsor a blasphemous religion [different than outlawing it as such]. As a 1st amendment originalist I am well aware that the constitution doesn't prohibit ceremonial religious gestures from the government, and I do believe that the government can choose to affiliate these gestures exclusively with Christianity and no other religions. But as someone who believes in free speech even for Nazis, i can't be a hypocrite in that regard. So, we reach the same conclusion about the satanic display in the Capitol [behead it!] but the reasoning is very different

But what constitutes a hate group? The Satanic Temple at its core is anti-Christian, but it claims to be for compassion, justice, bodily autonomy, freedom, science, responsibility, and nobility. Many people would say Christianity was founded as a hate group against pagans or Jews, or would say that Pro-Lifers are a hate group against women. I still think the government should maintain its Christian practices, and I would be thrilled if it partnered with pro-life organizations, even though many people define both as hate groups out to oppress the vulnerable.

#- HK #mobile #x #respublica #1A

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jerrybogard47 · 1 month

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what even are you doing on the gay Palestine supporting website??? lmao???

Expressing my freedom of speech, you know, the thing you kids don’t like?

#1A #free speech #stupid questions

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the-massive-simp · 1 year

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♡Class 1A random headcanons because yes♡

todoroki learned how to braid hair and now all the girl have amazing hairstyles

denki is dyscalculic

^bakugou at first didn't know that and he got very mad when denki wasn't able to do math even after he explained it many times, but when he acknowledged his learning disability he got softer (as soft as bakugo can be-)

ochako is mochi-addicted (kinda canon but who cares)

if someone doesn't feel like eating, sato makes them their favourite dessert

karaoke nights

denki starts singing quite good, but the more the party goes on, the worse it gets

mina and hagakure can sing any black pink song even if it was while walking on their hands with their hair on fire

if someone is sad because someone rejected them

oh boi

you can BET that denki will go to that person and start to flirt

"yo wassup my sweet lil baby gurl"

"damn you're hotter than bakugou's mom"

an shitty pickup lines like "is your father a butcher? because you're a fine piece of meat"

bad mood is gone in seconds for that person

when the class started to have film nights and bakugou still went to bed at 8pm mina said

"if bakugou doesn't come to the film night, the film night will go to bakugou"

then they all went to his room and forced him to watch titanic

three ours later aizawa went check why they were doing so much noise and he found twenty teenagers crying

#my hero academia #boku no hero academia #my hero academia headcanons #mha #bnha #1a #class 1a #bakugou headcanons #bakugou katsuki #denki headcanons #denki kaminari #mina ashido #my hero academia fluff

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theconstitutionisgayculture · 2 years

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This actually deserves its own post, so I'm going to say it again

A constitutional convention is a TERRIBLE IDEA.

I can't stress this enough. Think of every politician you know. Not just the one or two you like. Not just Donald Trump and the Republicans who backed him (and mostly flip flopped on that backing depending on what they thought would give them the best chance of being reelected), not just DeSantis, but all of them. Would you trust AOC to rewrite the constitution? Because you bet your ass the Democrats will be taking her input, if not actively having her write her version to put up for a vote. Even when it gets rejected, some of what she writes will make it in when the Republicans inevitably cave on important stances in the interest of another mostly one sided "compromise". Don't believe me? Look how many traitors are supporting the gun control lite that's currently going through congress.

Would you trust Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell to stand up for the principals of limited government and personal freedom? Would you trust the people voting on any new constitution to even read it, let alone understand what it is they're voting for? Would you trust the voting machines to properly tally ratification votes? Would you trust groups like BLM and Everytown for Gun Safety to have input? Would you trust politicians with ties to China, Soros, and the WEF to put the interests of the country ahead of global interests? Would you trust the media to accurately report on what's in each draft of the new constitution? Would you trust Google and Facebook to not censor the drafts that get put online? Would you trust any of these people or groups with your rights?

Think of everyone you talk to online. Think of your friends and family. Think of your coworkers. Would you want them rewriting the constitution? Would you trust them with your rights?

If the answer to a single one of these questions isn't an emphatic "hell yes!" then you can't support a constitutional convention. Rewriting the constitution now would be a disaster. We would lose more than we gain, if we even gain anything. The country is way too big for a consensus. Any document will be a mess of conflicting interests all trying to get their agendas passed. Our rights will be, at best, a distant 10th or 11th place in the drafting of a new constitution. At worst, they won't even be considered. Our politicians don't study the classic Greek and Roman philosophers. They don't have their morals informed by religion or family or study of history. The only philosophy they read are Marks and Engels, Osteen and Coulter, Vice and TMZ. The only morals they have are informed in most cases by decades in Washington. There is no one alive right now who I would trust in rewriting the constitution. Not even myself. As a society, we aren't equipped for it, morally or emotionally. Whatever fantasy you have of rewriting the constitution to be everything you want it to be will never come true. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. Anyone who tries is either incredibly stupid, or lying to you. Don't be a fool. Don't let the enemies of this country and our constitution rewrite the very foundation of our laws.

#constitutional convention #constitutional reform #2a #1a #bill of rights #american government #trump 2024 #desantis 2024 #republican party #democrat party

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cringeghostking · 8 months

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