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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 09:20 AM Jul 2016

Supreme Court may be converting on religion

Richard Wolf, USA TODAY 9:36 a.m. EDT July 30, 2016

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's defense of religious freedom may be on the decline.

Still reeling from the death of its most devout justice, Antonin Scalia, the high court has put preventing discrimination above protecting religion in a series of cases over the past year, from same-sex marriage to abortion and contraception.

It took an obscure order issued on the last day of the recent term for Justice Samuel Alito to drive home the point. By refusing to consider a family-owned pharmacy's objection to a Washington state regulation forcing it to stock and sell emergency contraceptives, he warned, the court was sending an "ominous sign."

"If this is a sign of how religious liberty claims will be treated in the years ahead, those who value religious freedom have cause for great concern." Alito said.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/30/supreme-court-religious-liberty-freedom-abortion-contraception/86819172/

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Supreme Court may be converting on religion (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2016 OP
I wish they would limit the freedom of religious sects that Baitball Blogger Jul 2016 #1
Call religious imposition: Everyone already has the freedom lindysalsagal Jul 2016 #2
Religious Imposition. Delmette Aug 2016 #8
You, Justice Alito, are the "ominous sign" on the Court. mountain grammy Jul 2016 #3
I have never seen the word "devout" more inexcusably abused. eppur_se_muova Jul 2016 #4
Precisely gratuitous Jul 2016 #5
God taking Scalia was the sign AwakeAtLast Aug 2016 #6
Americans have religious freedom, the right wants religious tyranny Democat Aug 2016 #7

Baitball Blogger

(46,757 posts)
1. I wish they would limit the freedom of religious sects that
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 09:32 AM
Jul 2016

feel like they can come to your house to solicit religion. Around here, anything that forces an autocratic viewpoint on a person has been tainted with ulterior purpose.

lindysalsagal

(20,730 posts)
2. Call religious imposition: Everyone already has the freedom
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 09:47 AM
Jul 2016

If you don't want to treat or serve people of different religions, QUIT YOUR JOB!

mountain grammy

(26,648 posts)
3. You, Justice Alito, are the "ominous sign" on the Court.
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 09:55 AM
Jul 2016

You and your 2 buddies. Your brand of "religious freedom" is anything but.

eppur_se_muova

(36,289 posts)
4. I have never seen the word "devout" more inexcusably abused.
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 07:50 PM
Jul 2016

Forcing others to live according to your own religious beliefs, when they have, through the democratic process, passed laws that clearly say they wish to do otherwise, is not devotion, but dictatorship.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. Precisely
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 09:15 PM
Jul 2016

I don't know what the writer meant by calling Scalia "devout," but I rarely recognized much of my childhood Catechism in his public utterances. Listening to Scalia hold forth on his allegedly religious beliefs and principles would have made Jesus want to drink gin right out of the cat's dish.

Democat

(11,617 posts)
7. Americans have religious freedom, the right wants religious tyranny
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 08:41 AM
Aug 2016

No one is being stopped from practicing their religion in America unless it breaks existing laws.

The right wing wants the US government to impose Christianity on all Americans. They want to use the power of the government to impose their personal religion on all citizens.

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