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As Kavanuagh’s comment demonstrated, the Republican-appointed justices seemed to feel that in America today, it is religious people who are the victims of discrimination and whose needs are ignored.
So the group who are tax exempt and have many of their religious holidays as nationally recognized paid holidays, as well as have had the last 47 presidentail elects be of their religion (not including in other positions of authority), are suddenly victims of discrimination?
If you didn’t vote Harris, you voted for this.
Upvoting to counter the spineless cowards who enabled Nazi America.
"B-b-but, muh Marxist dialectic materialism requires that I vote ideologically and totally disregard all dissident opinions"
There have been no new Supreme Court nominees since the election, so even if Harris had won, it would not have changed this.
Hey we don't know, maybe Harris would've expanded the Supreme Court!
Ok maybe we know.
Religion is a belief. School curriculum is made based on facts and experiments over time. They should not be combined.
Religion is made up fairytales that adults still believe in.
Honesty a guy praying to Jebus is no different than a guy shooting hadoukens from his wrists.
Yet one is called spiritual while the other is called childish.....
It’s funny that they clearly aren’t considering that religions other than theirs also exist. That’s the whole point of the Separation of Church and State. Your arbitrary religious views have no place in government or governance or public spaces… because others have other beliefs, many of which likely stand in stark contrast to yours, and the permutations are endless. Leaving your religious biases out of public life allows us all to coexist.
But lets ignore that and see what happens. Looking forward to The Satanic Temple having a presence in all public schools. Maybe muslims can get the Five Pillars and Buddhists can get the Noble Truths… and we’re just getting started.
They're not ignoring it, they're fully aware, and it's the whole point. They want an official state religion to suppress all others. They've been perfectly willing and able to blatantly ignore facts, evidence, and existing law and jurisprudence to benefit one religion over all others.
I hope the Satanic temple will be opening a charter school in Oklahoma soon.
Yeah, the idea isn't that church and state are matter/antimatter, but that the state shouldn't be used to direct people towards or away from any religion.
If the government establishes fair criteria for "school eligible for federal funding" then there's no reason those schools must be secular or of any particular religion.
Wait until some MAGAt groks that their tax dollars might go to a (((school))) or end up helping Muslims in some way.
TBF, this regime doesn't actually support any form of real education.
He continued: “You can’t treat religious people and religious institutions and religious speech as second-class in the United States… And when you have a program that’s open to all comers except religion… that seems like rank discrimination against religion.”
No, you stupid cunt. Religious institutions are special snowflakes that enjoy tax-exempt status and steal billions of dollars from this country by existing. Now you want to give them billions more on top of it. Fuck you Brett Kavanaugh you treasonous piece of shit.
Letting Religion run things is how you get the dark ages again. They were called dark for a reason.
They're called dark ages because there's not much record about it.
America really is falling through, huh? Might just be best to dissolve the union and leave behind the garbage.
Conservatism is late stage cancer. You either lop it off or let it kill you
Oh goody! We are one step closer to sharia law!
This part is both mind blowing and hilarious. Not too long ago they were screeching that "they are trying to make everything sharia law!"
Then they do this, with absolutely no sense of irony. The dumb runs so deep that its turning to magma.
Christofacisism
As a European watching the news, sometimes I have to remind myself that lots of other countries also go to shit from time to time, it just doesn't get reported on as much. We get a massively disproportionate amount of reporting from the US as a result of how the English-speaking internet works.
In fact even writing this I just noticed the sidebar's description of the community I'm posting in, guess I should probably just block it (no offence).
If they're going to allow religious schools get public funding then churches should pay into taxes.
Make it at least somewhat fair.
“You can’t treat religious people and religious institutions and religious speech as second-class in the United States”
If you’re teaching spiritual things then you’re not a top-class program. Stick to facts.
How long do you think it will take for Trump to declare himself as the head of the US religion, the same way Henry VIII did for the Church of England?
Ain't no hate like christofacist love...
Saint Luigi deliver us from these horrible "justices"
I wasnt going to have kids and the world keeps enforcing my decisions. If I had to deal with religion aimed at my kid I'd actually lose it 💀