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ancianita

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31. EXACTLY. Take the ruling that allows excluding LGBTQ+ business from a wedding website offer.
Fri Jun 30, 2023, 06:50 PM
Jun 2023
That SCOTUS ruling privileges prejudice against the immutable characteristics of Americans under cover of contract law capitalism.

What if this ruling starts being applied by landlords refusing to rent to single women, or to Black Americans, or to Jewish people. What if it starts being applied by grocery stores refusing to sell to certain people? Will they all have to post signs beyond "no shirt, no shoes, no service?" How does that affect the public? Assuming you're a white christian heterosexual male, or white christian married woman, that's not your problem, so anyone who wins some patriarchal birth lottery doesn't have to care? This ruling opens the door for some pretty awful destabilizing of what were formerly diverse communities and "a more perfect union."

This SCOTUS, full of conservative justices who for years and years can't even file honest financial disclosure forms, is disqualified from defining which Americans can accept public contract offers.

In the public world of commerce, longstanding social prejudices against immutable human characteristics should never be legally acceptable under cover of religious beliefs.

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The republicans didn't steal those louslobbs Jun 2023 #1
Yes the conflict has been underway for a long time. Model35mech Jun 2023 #3
"Those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." roamer65 Jun 2023 #2
Yes! louslobbs Jun 2023 #5
Yes. And I have little doubt that Conservative intolerance and incivility Model35mech Jun 2023 #8
I hope you don't mind, but I'm slightlv Jun 2023 #17
Go for it. roamer65 Jun 2023 #18
Awesome statement yankee87 Jun 2023 #37
I have absolutely no respect for SCOTUS. Several of them are bozos and RKP5637 Jun 2023 #4
And the destruction of the administrative state is THE federalist/libertarian goal. Marcus IM Jun 2023 #6
Have some sympathy... rubbersole Jun 2023 #7
Well noted. (Your sarcasm). They'll say,"It's but a pittance." erronis Jun 2023 #25
Destablizing - exactly my sentiment. cilla4progress Jun 2023 #9
While Scalia was on the court, one of the justices, perhaps him Model35mech Jun 2023 #10
Yeah, that's the agenda right there... 2naSalit Jun 2023 #11
They proved it in their ruling for the hypothetical damage done to a woman who claimed her ancianita Jun 2023 #29
As long as the people are nearly equally divided and we stay at each other's throats, the powerful Chainfire Jun 2023 #12
What the CAN DO would not be what wisdom says they SHOULD DO Model35mech Jun 2023 #14
I think there will be many "confrontations" slightlv Jun 2023 #20
Nothing in any ruling has destabilized our country TexasDem69 Jun 2023 #13
It is part of the death by a thousand cuts. Chainfire Jun 2023 #15
That is of course the dream we once held on to Model35mech Jun 2023 #16
I suspect the same was said in Germany in 1933. roamer65 Jun 2023 #19
Yippers... trying to change things is just such hard work! slightlv Jun 2023 #21
... roamer65 Jun 2023 #22
I think may be one of the only people not to see slightlv Jul 2023 #39
It's not the text of today's rulings, it is the IMPLICATIONS of many rulings Model35mech Jun 2023 #23
In other words, it's being Republican. roamer65 Jun 2023 #24
No. It's their conservatism. Model35mech Jun 2023 #26
EXACTLY. Take the ruling that allows excluding LGBTQ+ business from a wedding website offer. ancianita Jun 2023 #31
good response Evolve Dammit Jun 2023 #32
Todays supreme court is an offshoot of the Republican Party kimbutgar Jun 2023 #27
Republican nominations influenced by the federalist society Model35mech Jun 2023 #33
So sadly true kimbutgar Jun 2023 #38
Yeah. Undermining the Constitution IS destabilizing. dchill Jun 2023 #28
Over the long term this SC is far more damaging to democracy than Trump. flashman13 Jun 2023 #30
When you get a bunch of old philosophers together . . . Aussie105 Jun 2023 #34
On the radio, I just heard a professor (UCLA, I think) say that this court rules from the LoisB Jun 2023 #35
The church has always been an institution of tyranny and dominance vlyons Jun 2023 #36
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