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Hekate

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16. How about going even further back? May the Furies pursue him.....

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 12:14 PM

Oct 2022

Why hide those words? Unless he was sleepwalking, Alito understood perfectly well that he was committing a gross material omission, obscuring the fact that the "penalty" in this medieval text was merely religious and penitential, not civil or criminal. Religious "crimes" are not crimes at all, by our modern legal standards. (The Leges Henrici, at pages 222-223, mentions paying "wergeld" and "manbot," or reparations, including compensation for loss of a pregnancy, if a pregnant woman is slain by any means. But that's not "punishment for abortion," which is merely penance in the Leges.)

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Supreme deceit: How Sam Alito snuck medieval state Christianity into the Dobbs opinion [View all] ck4829 Oct 2022 OP

Yep. Sammy the Douche. The Unmitigated Gall Oct 2022 #1

He's a religious nutcase. Half of those judges are leftyladyfrommo Oct 2022 #2

K&R Solly Mack Oct 2022 #3

Deceit is the signature hallmark of the corrupt nuxvomica Oct 2022 #4

+1 c-rational Oct 2022 #8

So Alito drug us back even further than we thought. brush Oct 2022 #5

The 17th century is too close to the Enlightenment. chriscan64 Oct 2022 #22

Doesn't Matter 4Q2u2 Oct 2022 #6

This becomes the basis for a future court to overturn Dobbs gratuitous Oct 2022 #7

I saw the key phrase "after it is quick" Racygrandma Oct 2022 #9

You are right, they did. True Blue American Oct 2022 #12

And what I do not understand is how six individuals can upend the society we live in and cause c-rational Oct 2022 #10

Because those six had a lot of help getting them into the positions to do it. JHB Oct 2022 #11

It's not really about abortion, it's about forcing their view of Christianity down our throats. Hotler Oct 2022 #13

Nice Hotler! Thx NC DENVERPOPS Oct 2022 #18

Just another way to make the claim that they have God on THEIR side. calimary Oct 2022 #19

Just a complete an utter outrage Dobbs is and their "race neutral" fiction regarding the 14th amend Pepsidog Oct 2022 #14

the supreme court seems to be full of criminals samsingh Oct 2022 #15

How about going even further back? May the Furies pursue him..... Hekate Oct 2022 #16

To misquote Biden Farmer-Rick Oct 2022 #17

And will soon make Christo-fascism the state religion burrowowl Oct 2022 #20

So then, Alito's ruling was not only wrong, but deliberately dishonest Martin Eden Oct 2022 #21

Yup, this is what passes Farmer-Rick Oct 2022 #23

Inquisitor Alito didn't sneak anything in there, it was IN OUR FACES Warpy Oct 2022 #24

abortion lawyers take note and start pointing this out in every hearing librechik Oct 2022 #25

Mockalito and the rest of the Subversive 6 are unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2022 #26