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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden passes a mandatory mask law. SCOTUS overturns it because it violates religious freedoms.
When invisible beings in the sky are more valued over science, then you're living in a primitive culture.
MiniMe
(21,676 posts)Yavin4
(35,354 posts)Public health is devalued in this culture which is why we lead the world in deaths.
Such laws have been regularly upheld with tuberculosis mandatory quarantines, as one example
I don't know if you are legally trained and/or have access to case law, but there is a LOT of precedence.
brush
(53,467 posts)which would take months, it will already have done its job.
Go for it, repugs.
hlthe2b
(101,698 posts)among the Amish or other "religious" objectors during outbreaks. Public health law varies, but there is one hell of a lot of precedence for it fully "trumping" (no pun intended) so-called religious grounds. So, that is not something I'd take at "faith" (pun INTENDED).
Igel
(35,191 posts)That's one of these things where either a president is bound to implement a law affecting everybody--with a need to implement some sort of national enforcement strategy--or is prohibited by the nature of the government system under our Constitution, where this is a right reserved for the states.
Biden made the kind of 'day-one national mandate' claim, was dinged for it, and then shortly after that clarified what he *really* meant was talking to governors and getting them to implement mask mandates. What "getting them" entails was a question--perhaps withholding unrelated funding until they comply, perhaps just dissing and trying to humiliate non-compliant governors.
Maybe these days he'd use the CDC--declare it a public health emergency and then have the federal government assume control.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)does it say anything about being wrong to wear a mask? How does one claim an attack on their religious freedoms when no issues of masks have ever been taught? Most religious books teach caring for others but that has been thrown out the window when they dismissed their God and made donald their god.
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)It's time to focus on the election, not the SCOTUS. Don't let RBG's death distract you from that. It's time to make sure we don't lose in November. Nothing else matters right now.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Laws can be written that avoid judicial intervention.