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In reply to the discussion: This will offend some people, and for any offence I apologize. [View all]moniss
(6,462 posts)what the SC decision does is set up the ability for anybody in a business to discriminate against any protected group(race, sex, sexual orientation etc.) and claim it is OK because it is something they deeply believe. Put another way they are saying the Constitution prohibits discrimination against you unless somebody really believes you should be discriminated against. The absurdity of such a position would be ripe fodder for a Monty Python sketch.
But what they have set in motion is chaos for their previous rulings about protection for religious beliefs. You can be quite sure that if a business were to post a sign saying "No Baptists Allowed" there would be an immediate run to the courthouse and a 24/7 scream fest would take place on Faux News. But the justices would be faced with the prospect of saying one kind of deeply held belief based discrimination is OK while another is not. But there is no possible basis to make this argument. I know that won't stop them from arguing two contrary things at once but the chaos of doing that would immediately affect a huge amount of other supposedly settled case law. In other words they would be saying the equivalent of 2+2=4 except when it equals something else. Logic is a thing after all and not just words strung together. If it were just that string then any pretense that something was argued and reasoned simply evaporates. So you could apply that chaotic thinking to past cases and dice them how you like. There would be no certainty to anything when you use the "it's OK if you deeply believe it" rationale.
The clear reality is that this court is not going to change any time soon and the exposure of their money entanglements etc. isn't going to lead to a resignation or a successful impeachment. I wish it would but we need to act quickly and aggressively to throw this chaos back in their face. I would strongly encourage businesses to start posting signs excluding religions, Republicans etc. and refusing to do business/provide services for them. The resulting chaos is not something we created. Just exercising our newly expanded First Amendment rights giving us this ability to discriminate as long as we "deeply believe" it.
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