They called themselves Puritans because they wanted to purify the Christian Church from the anathema of the Catholics. The bright robes, the high ceilings, all swindler's tricks to mulct the masses. John Adams observed it was not just amazing that the Protestant rebellion succeeded: he marveled that it even started. Now all the Catholic Supreme Court appointees to our Supreme Court—they no longer deserve the name “Justice”—have enacted Catholic dogma as the Supreme law of the land.
Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia and Kennedy. All Catholics. Despite their oath to uphold the Constitution, which clearly requires everyone be treated equally and nowhere says Catholic dogma controls United States law, they have used the First Amendment to create special exceptions for Catholic dogma in the Hobby Lobby case: they used current Catholic dogma as to when life is created. In the Book of Numbers, the Bible says people don't count as people until they are a month old.
A sixth Catholic, Sonia Sotomayor, kept her oath. She did not place her religious beliefs above Democratically enacted laws.
Further, the five Catholic appointees tramped on long standing rules which prohibit employers from foisting their religion on employees. They set aside more than 150 years of United States state's law embodied in among other places the Field’s Code, they empowered other Catholics—as well as who share those superstitions—to tell employees how to behave.
Rational people have long understood that the superstitious—call it religion if you want to be polite but superstitious they are—are selfish, gullible and easily manipulated. Their teachers teach them to fear from an early age: who is more pliable than a coward in fear?
Back in 1980's, Gary North wrote a book The Failure of the Baptist Culture. In it, various authors explained how they wanted to create a theocracy here in America. Because people object to a theocracy, they’d call it by another name. They'd use the so called libertarians like the Pauls. Once they gained power, then they would start putting in place their version of the laws of Leviticus. Even the Jews stopped using most of those more than 2000 years ago.
North and his friends also explained that they did not actually believe in a right to life—no such thing exists in the Bible they explained, only the fact that all men die—but they would use the right to life issue to manipulate others. They would use the First Amendment’s freedom of religion as a legal ruse to create special treatment for themselves and other theocrats. Then they would proceed to create the theocracy they so crave.
What scum the RATS are. When they took their oath of office, they swore to uphold our Constitution. They’ve repeatedly denied the rights of other religions to have special treatment, scoffing at the beliefs of others. But the five Catholic jurists upheld their own Catholic superstitions, proving themselves liars, oathbreakers and gullible, manipulated just as easily as Gary North predicted.
In the Catholic publication Crisis, the underlying assumption is that they are the true chosen of GOD and claim that unless they can discriminate against others, then their religious freedom is being compromised. I cannot see the crisis here. If they had upheld the compromise offered by the Obama administration, then any Hobby Lobby employee who shared the owner's superstitious beliefs need only NOT use the contraceptives.
This author was baptized Catholic and went to their churches through the age of six. I’m a weird one. I could never take it seriously: does an almighty God really wants his priests to dress in fancy clothes and lord over a group of people? When I met the Priest, he patted my head and told me he’d teach me how to behave. Who put him in charge was my five year old thought. He's the Priest, I was told. Later, he was sacked for molesting members of his congregation. But for the intervention of my half Jewish grandmother, one victim might have been me.
The superstitious Christians will not be content with just this ruling. It's only a start. I read the underlying petition. It has scant evidence. All you have to do is claim a “deeply held belief” in superstitious dogma consistent with the Catholic dogma and you now get special treatment. We have Scalia, who brags about fabricating case citations, scaliaing his opinions with lies couched in invective bombast; Thomas who brags about how he doesn’t bother reading briefs from people with views which oppose his own. If they are not taking bribes, these men should be: they've made the very rich richer by trillions. They will be feted and cheered by the groups who have benefited from
The Catholic Church has done many good things. But these men by betraying their oaths have enacted into law all the worst elements of that Church: this false moral authority over everyone else; the claim that unless they can discriminate against others they themselves are being oppressed. F' em.
Most of the people who founded this country opposed the Catholic Church. Even the Carrolls, the Catholic founding fathers, rejected a land where Catholic dogma was law. A war is on. Just as in the days of Martin Luther and William Tyndale, they have the money and the power. We have to find a way to fight and seems to be with the ballot and messages. They've got the money.
UPDATE: A group of kos members downgraded this diary (first ever for me) and then hid the tip jar LOL. Seemed like a concerted attack as many of the adverse commentators had connections. Maybe not. People that chimed in got flamed. Lots of insults in the comments. I'm not a superstitious man and some of the insults kind of explain why I wrote this diary. I did go back and tone down the language. In hindsight, I think that was a good idea. I made it clear Sonia Sotomayor is also Catholic and she did not feel it important to enshrine Catholic dogma as law of the land. as well as made it more clear that my comments are directed at the jurists who wrote the opinion, not all Catholics. From personal experience, I sort of am one from family history and the early days of my life, its my opinion that Catholics are just as fallible as any other group of people. Its ideas within the group I mainly object to. For those who decry the decision but think Hobby Lobby was "limited" here is one explanation why not.
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