Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the devout Catholic conservative who has long warned of animus against religion in America, says in a new book that he believes the court’s landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was “perhaps the decisive point in our nation’s turn against religious liberty.”
Alito, who dissented sharply in the 2015 case, made the claim at Catholic University of America three years after Obergefell v Hodges in a speech that was not open to the public or widely covered at the time. The remarks were published this month in “So Ordered,” a collection of Alito speeches that he says reflect his judicial philosophy and outlook on the country.
Someone should remind the bigot that so was interracial marriage.
Of course he ignores that marriage is a civil contract that exists outside of religion. Why would he let facts get in the way of his sexist position.
Why does the government even have to recognize marriages? It seems like govt overreach to be involved in a religious ceremony. Abolish marriage certificates and just set your partner as your emergency contact.
If they don’t like gay marriage don’t have one. It really is that simple.
Your religious beliefs shouldn’t affect what I can do.
These fuckers won’t ever be intellectually or morally honest. They must be discarded from public discourse. Codify everything, pack the “Supreme Court”, if we can’t dispense with it altogether.
This motherfucking scum of the earth is going to do his book tour, then retire after the midterms but before the new year and make way for Eileen Cannon to fill his spot.
This is my fear Dude.
If I forbid you from eating ketchup because my religion forbids ketchup, you would think I am insane and laugh me all the way to the fridge.
But somehow, we keep entertaining these morons.
To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.
This is such an Alito thing to say; taking a fact, that people were increasingly turned away from the church by anti-gay rhetoric, and then distorting the cause and reframing the result as a “Turn against religious liberty.”
Most Alito line ever, 10/10 no notes.
How is any human dumb enough to convince themselves that’s how liberty works?
Genuinely baffling
Liberty itself is propaganda and essentially meaning without laws for the wealthy.
These are the same people that believe riding a donkey into Jerusalem is enough to fulfill a prophecy about the messiah returning from a victorious military campaign.
Or that when Isaiah pointed to a pregnant young woman, to use the child she was carrying as a marker of time, that that young woman was a virgin, born 300 years later and was Marry.
Or any of ~300 other prophecies that peole claim Jesus fulfilled, but are lying about if you just read the original prophecy with anything resembling integrity.
“I have no liberties because two people of the same sex love each other! Waaah!” Shut the fuck up Alito.
Ok, so he doesn’t fucking understand what liberty is and rights are. Add him to the list
He’s using the Southern definition. The Southern notion of “liberty” is about ruling over others and owning them, etc.
That’s why when you see “don’t tread on me” dipshit talking about “freedom” and “liberty” it is so confusing. They are using common terms for something else entirely.
Don’t tread on me. Others…
Trust me, he’s been on the list. One of the founding members, in fact
only if this asshole considers a “liberty” to impose his will on others… which of course he does
Another candidate to be tied in the town square
Religious Freedom means you have the right to your religion, yourself.
Calling religious supremacism your “freedom”, … is called gaslighting.
Alito is at least being authentic in his gaslighting.
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Religious people do not understand the depth of accomodation we provide them as a society. We already go around tolerating an insane collective delusion in our personal interactions with them, and they’ve leveraged that good will into an attempt to force that delusion onto everyone else.
Personally I think that’s where the social contract ends. The second you attempt to legislate your religion, my duty to tolerate it in any form ends.
Xtians believe that they deserve special privileges. They don’t recognize that as such, they just think it’s the natural order of the universe. They expect their chosen lifestyle of their special book club to be put up on a pedestal and never even have the precepts questioned.
The minute any of that unwarranted privilege is eroded in even the tiniest way, they view that as “but mah rights are being trampled!”
Alito has a personal right to belittle, mock, and object to same-sex and same-gender marriage. Just as he also has a personal right to belittle, mock, and object to interracial, inter-reliigous, and childless marriage.
And we have the same personal right to belittle, mock, and object to his ideas as idiotic bigotry.
What Alito shouldn’t have is a right to use his personal animus to shape public policy. Except he does, because when the court recognized the constitutional right to abortion back when Alito was a 23-year old kid the whole US right wing gave up on the constitution and decided to try a judicial coup.
Alito’s entire professional life is pretending that he isnt a proxy for this coup. I’d almost feel sorry for him if his malfeasance hadn’t led to pregnant women dying of eminently preventable complications. (Not to mention W and Trump’s presidencies and all the death and destruction that might have been avoided if we had actually applied the rules.)
Calling religious supremacism your “freedom”, … is called gaslighting.
That has nothing to do with gaslighting, but it is stupid and wrong.
“a form of psychological manipulation where a person makes someone doubt their own memory, perception, or sanity”
Denying or re-envisioning history is most definitely a form of gaslighting.
“In dissent from that ruling,” he said in the 2018 address, “I expressed my worry that equating the expression of certain views with bigotry – or, if you like, with dignitary harm – would drive believers out of public life.”
Alito suggests that his prediction has come to pass.
“Quite suddenly, religious liberty has become controversial,” Alito said in a newly published 2022 speech to the Magnificat Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting Catholic culture and traditions.
So the lifetime appointee on the most powerful court, the majority of whom are religious believers who willingly impose their will on others, in a governmental and political environment controlled by religious believers in every branch of government, believes that the Obergefell decision “dr[o]ve believers out of public life.”
Big wiping-his-tears-with-hundred-dollar-bills energy here.
The cases he uses as examples involve businesses threatened with punishment for refusing to provide services for gay weddings and faith-based organizations harmed by government health or employment regulations without any religious exemption.
“What we see in these and other cases,” Alito says in the 2022 speech, “is a refusal to live in peace with those who violate the new moral code.” He says the dynamic will “virtually guarantee that the Supreme Court will continue to see a steady stream of religious-liberty cases.”
To be clear, the “new moral code” that is being “violated” is: Treat other human beings like equal human beings.
There is no deeper meaning here. He’s upset that he doesn’t view LGBTQ people as deserving the right to equally participate in society, and is therefore the one being oppressed.
Nobody is better at having a persecution complex/delusion than Christians. Hell their entire religion was founded on a persecution fetish story basically.
I wonder whether he thinks it’s OK for a business to refuse services to Catholic customers. Or is that suddenly discrimination again?
Religious indoctrination is one of the worst forms of child abuse.
Preventing same sex marriage is the restriction on religious liberty. Religious liberty includes the right to not be religious and to not be committed to following religious rules.
