RBG passed

[Frederick Foresight]

There is no end. Medical research, child safety laws, marriage, workplace conditions, on and on. It wasn’t too long ago North Carolina tried to declare an official state religion. It’s going to get as out of control as guns.

Oh, and didn't the bible conveniently condone slavery, making it okay for righteous, god-fearing christians to own slaves? No more thinking required?

 

[gwb-trading]

There is no end. Medical research, child safety laws, marriage, workplace conditions, on and on. It wasn’t too long ago North Carolina tried to declare an official state religion. It’s going to get as out of control as guns.

In 2013/2014 North Carolina had one rural legislator who proposed a bill to establish an official religion. The Republican Speaker of North Carolina’s House of Representatives declared the bill was dead on arrival and that the “Rowan County, North Carolina Defense of Religion Act of 2013” would not be getting a vote by the full House.

This is nowhere near "North Carolina tried to declare an official state religion".

Keep in mind that individual state crackpot legislators regularly introduce absurd bills in every state. Do I need to go through the absurd list of bills introduced in California over the past three decades.

https://ideas.time.com/2013/04/08/can-u-s-states-have-official-religions/

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Keep in mind that individual state crackpot legislators regularly introduce absurd bills in every state. Do I need to go through the absurd list of bills introduced in California over the past three decades.

Yeah, but let's not kid ourselves about which side of the political aisle the threat of religious oppression (or should I say, oppressive religion) stems from.

 

[UsualName]

In 2013/2014 North Carolina had one rural legislator who proposed a bill to establish an official religion. The Republican Speaker of North Carolina’s House of Representatives declared the bill was dead on arrival and that the “Rowan County, North Carolina Defense of Religion Act of 2013” would not be getting a vote by the full House.

This is nowhere near "North Carolina tried to declare an official state religion".

Keep in mind that individual state crackpot legislators regularly introduce absurd bills in every state. Do I need to go through the absurd list of bills introduced in California over the past three decades.

https://ideas.time.com/2013/04/08/can-u-s-states-have-official-religions/

Actually it was two lawmakers but this is a larger judicial matter of nullification. And if you don’t think this coming, you have rose colored glasses on.

Like I said, and I’m not pegging you as left or right, most right wingers don’t understand what a super majority Supreme Court means to their everyday rights and freedoms. Religious imposition is coming.

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

Like I said, and I’m not pegging you as left or right, most right wingers don’t understand what a super majority Supreme Court means to their everyday rights and freedoms. Religious imposition is coming.

Dems are beginning to sweat and breath into the paper bag more than a little.

I like that.

REMEMBER KAVANAUGH!!!!

 

[Tsing Tao]

Abortion rights? Because the deeply religious believe that a person forms at conception. Remember gay rights? What kept that from being established sooner? Remember witches burned at the stake? Heretics? The list goes on.

And, more recently, what about the local politicians who wanted their courts to display the ten commandments? Where does it end? When does it end?

Abortion has been an issue back and forth between right and left for a long, long time. I'm not sure you can use that as an example that religion is suddenly threatening to overtake us. Gay rights not being established sooner? you can ask why it took so long to push suffrage movements worldwide. burning witches at the stake? I mean, ok we can go back to the beginning of the country, I suppose, but its not really relevant to today.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Yeah, but let's not kid ourselves about which side of the political aisle the threat of religious oppression (or should I say, oppressive religion) stems from.

No one is arguing that the threat of religious oppression doesn't come from the right. We're just arguing that it is a real "threat". Shark attacks are a threat too, I guess. I just don't think they're going to keep me from going in the ocean.

 

[traderob]

 

[Scataphagos]

At some point the ugly words "recess appointment" will come up and all the pundits will churn the legal implications of that. Give it a while but it is coming, especially if Trump wins and they try to punish him by not filling the position or excessively dragging it out.

Maybe during Christmas recess or something.

Full disclosure, I am not up on all the legal ins and outs of recess appointments. Neither are the pundits, but I can smell it in the air, and even if it does not happen it will get its 15 minutes of scary talk at some point

It is more likely to be talked about- as I said- if Trump wins but they won't confirm anyone. I suppose he could also make a recess appointment as a lame duck too, the full senate has to vote within a year or the end of the session or whatever so he could only mess things up for a while if the pubs do not fully control the senate. Otherwise, it would be undone.

Rush Limbaugh made the point... that no hearing on the appointee is required. That is, Trump can submit a name and the Senate can vote... and that's it. Confirmation!

No way to "drag it out" if there's no hearing... unless a few Repubs don't go along with the party on this.

Is this right??

 

[Cuddles]

Actually it was two lawmakers but this is a larger judicial matter of nullification. And if you don’t think this coming, you have rose colored glasses on.

Like I said, and I’m not pegging you as left or right, most right wingers don’t understand what a super majority Supreme Court means to their everyday rights and freedoms. Religious imposition is coming.

Religious imposition is already here. From symbolic BS like tax payer maintained 10 commandment monuments on federal buildings, to anti Israeli sabotage prohibitions, to child bride permitting on wing nut states, to tax payers' money going to private theocratic education.