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In reply to the discussion: Justices agree to hear major Mississippi abortion case [View all]Aldemelod
(29 posts)Amy Coney Barrett is not merely a religious conservative, she is a profoundly antiabortion Catholic. She is the capstone of a prolonged Republican institutional effort to install rigidly antiabortion Catholics as a majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. There might no longer be any meaningful church-state separation among the SCOTUS conservative majority on key social issues unless one or more of the justices decides the oath to the office and the Constitution takes legal precedence over personal religious beliefs.
Barrett comes from a dispensationalist apocalyptic background and might be convinced that God divinely intervened to remove RBG and anoint Barrett to replace her. Believing you are your peculiar God's favorite to champion your peculiar religious beliefs over the majority who don't share them is dangerously destructive and antidemocratic.