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Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism
In a case centering on wrongful-death claims for frozen embryos that were accidentally destroyed at a fertility clinic, the Alabama supreme court ruled last Friday that frozen embryos are “children” under state law.
As a result, several Alabama in-vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics are ceasing services, afraid to store or destroy any embryos.
The underlying issue is whether government can interfere in the most intimate aspects of people’s lives – not only barring people from obtaining IVF services but also forbidding them from entering into gay marriage, utilizing contraception, having out-of-wedlock births, ending their pregnancies, changing their genders, checking out whatever books they want from the library, and worshipping God in whatever way they wish (or not worshipping at all).
All these private freedoms are under increasing assault from Republican legislators and judges who want to impose their own morality on everyone else. Republicans are increasingly at war with America’s basic separation of church and state.
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Can someone please explain how this is any different from a county imposing Sharia law‽ Pretty sure the right is vehemently against that occuring. Why are their morals different, in the end it’s trying to control through religion.
It’s exactly the same. But because it’s their god it’s somehow different, but it’s not.
Its the same God, though, isn’t it? Just their book?
From my understanding of the various religions and offshoots, yes, it is in theory the same God. They also feature the same saints and holy figures across the 3 big ones though in the Quran Jesus is a saint or similar but not our savior or the son of God and God in the same package, etc.
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Any of these Christians at any rate.
Have you seen the south Park multiparter about the atheist otters?
Abrahamic religions 101:
Judaism religion v1.0 Christianity religion v2.0 Islam religion v3.0
Well you see, Sharia Law is imposed by brown people, so God hates it. Jesus was white, American, and a registered Republican, so God loves the brand of extremist Christian theocracy the GOP will bring upon us.
/s
Don’t forget 2A and supply side
Nice that people are starting to notice, I suppose.
Better late to the party than a no show I suppose.
When was the last time people were in doubt about that? Conservatives have been trying to pass laws that affect everyone based on their confused religious moralism for decades. Things like “blue laws” (banning sales of alcohol on Sunday) are connected to Christians trying to impose their religious ideas on people. Or the idea that someone’s testimony or oath can’t be believed if not sworn on a bible.
Did you ever see that one politician who swore up and down that America is a Christian nation because you swear into office on the Bible? Complete deer in headlights look when the interviewer explained that the Bible was an option, not a requirement.
Media keeps telling me how moderate Haley is.
And always trying to rationalize it as not religious. Fucking maddening.
The people that want a theocracy want it based on their religion and their interpretation of that religion. This way they can present what they want as what god wants and that gives them complete control over you since you have to obey god.
Hail Satan!
They should be careful what they wish for. There are estimated to be at least 200 Christian Denominations in the USA and 45,000 globally. If they ever succeeded in making this nation a theocracy, it would be a bloodbath in under a week as each denomination tries to make all the others adhere to their own interpretations.
And look how these purported Christians interpret to their advantage in their day to day lives. I know real Christians. They’re among my closest friends and family.
This isn’t Christian theocracy. It’s demonic theocracy.
There was a speaker at CPAC who just said that they’re trying to make the US a Christian nation by force, even if it means abandoning democracy.
Everything someone talks a about a Christian nations, all I can think of is Emo Philips’ joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNX_XiuA78
Can I get a link to this video?
Talibangelicals
In a concurring opinion in last week’s Alabama supreme court decision, Alabama’s chief justice, Tom Parker, invoked the prophet Jeremiah, Genesis and the writings of 16th- and 17th-century theologians. “Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God,” he wrote. “Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.”
Before joining the court, Parker was a close aide and ally of Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama supreme court who was twice removed from the job – first for dismissing a federal court order to remove an enormous granite monument of the Ten Commandments he had installed in the state judicial building, and then for ordering state judges to defy the US supreme court’s decision affirming gay marriage.
Excuse me wtf
How do they square that with supporting the death penalty?
Dogmatic ideology holding contradictory positions is a feature, not a bug. Break down whatever instincts for logic might exist, and people will believe anything.
Nah, no one could’ve seen it coming. There’s nothing we can do it, it’s caught everyone completely off guard.
Wow, those 3 other people are horrible. “Permissiveness”?
Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism
frozen embryos
chilling example
Nice.
They don’t just want a theocracy; they’re well on their way to making it happen.
They want a dictatorship. They are just using theocracy as a stepping stone.
American Taliban, or a fascist theocracy. They believe that inequality based on some mythological identity is not just acceptable but morally correct.
The Republican party
wants to turnis actively turning America.into a theocracyThey’re using religion as their path to dictatorship. Really only Catholics were in open opposition to abortion until conservatives made it an evangelical talking point. They found a way to control women and then found the audience to market it to. Now they caught that car and have to find another target for their pack of dogs.
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And let them keep enslaving innocent people?
Should’ve done something with the south alright, but it’s not letting them go.
When Sherman got to the ocean we should have just pointed him in another direction and let him bounce around the South for a while. Like one big Confederate-cleansing Roomba.
Fun fact, after the famous March to the Sea, Sherman headed back north, cutting an equally destructive path through South Carolina.
Shouldn’t have let the confederate leadership go on living after the war. Arguments can be made for average soldiers since many were drafted against their wills and/or propagandized into their beliefs, but an example needed to be made of the leaders and it wasn’t.
“Oh, you want to break away from the country in order to keep slavery going? Well please stand in front of that brick wall over there. Runner-up trophies will be distributed imminently and in an orderly fashion. Here’s your blindfold because we’d like it to be a surprise. Would you like a cigarette while you wait?”
Now now let’s be nice. You might get banned for violence for saying maybe we should punch Nazis even though they constantly ask for the literal death of others!
Rename it “lower north”
Duh
