...on Facebook, primarily aimed at my many Mormon relatives and friends, about today's unforgiveably partisan SCOTUS ruling. Maybe it's worth your time to read, maybe not, but here it is.
Religious liberty is under serious threat in America, not from "godless liberals" but from the conservative majority of the Supreme Court of the United States, which today decided that discrimination based upon one's religion is indeed constitutional — despite the fact that the Constitution itself clearly states the exact opposite.
Today it's Muslims. Tomorrow it could easily be Jews, or Buddhists, or Catholics, or Mormons [note: or athiests, but I was writing for a specific audience]. The latter group ought to be APPALLED by this injustice, as they have been the victims of a wrongheaded and bigoted Supreme Court before — including one case which denied Mormons the most basic civil right of all: the right to vote.
The parallel with today's ruling against Muslims is striking, in this quote from the Washington Post from 2012:
"[T]he Supreme Court’s assertion of a “Christian” basis to constitutional law and federal punishment of all Mormons for the actions of a minority are hard to justify by modern standards."
Well, that was in 2012; the landscape in 2018 is very different. After today's ruling it is not entirely unreasonable to conclude that "modern standards" might easily justify such a regressive 19th-century decision by the court.
Unfortunately a majority of Mormons are in the thrall of — and owe a blind allegiance to — the Republican Party, which, whatever it may once have been, is now a cesspool of bigotry and corruption and moral cowardice, led by an ignorant, adulterous, and mendacious con man, propped up willingly by "conservative" legislators and jurists whose priority is partisan power and not the welfare of the nation. May they all burn in the hottest, deepest recesses of Hell.