Submitter: This is Samuel Alito discussing homosexual marriage and religious liberty.
"In dissent from that ruling," he said in the 2018 address, "I expressed my worry that equating the expression of certain views with bigotry -- or, if you like, with dignitary harm -- would drive believers out of public life."
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The “certain views” he’s talking about are the general idea that it’s right and fair for Christian Fundamentalists to have cultural, legal, and religious supremacy in the US. Because either you’re affirming them or oppressing them, no middle ground, I guess. Same-sex marriage being legalized was a turning point in the sense that fundies started to truly realize no one cares what they want.
"equating the expression of certain views with bigotry -- or, if you like, with dignitary harm -- would drive believers out of public life."
Believers or beliefs?
If your religious beliefs require you to actively and publicly attack the dignity of others it isn’t the “others” that need to be driven from public life as they have been to please your religious “freedom” to deny them safety, privacy, or agency in their own homes. You don’t get to claim “fear” that publicly attack people and attempting to drive them out of the public eye by force of law and threat of easily accepted and excused violence with “drive you out of public life” when the consequences have only been that people call you assholes. And you have often had the power to punish them for voicing this. This sick cult of yours seeks to devour the world starting with everyone who claims Christianity is their religion. The blood on your hands grows thicker and the madness in your eyes darker. And this disease of yours is infecting the world. The muttered oaths of murder and retribution you used to have to hide in your basement to speak are public for every ear but you claim victimhood when the world recoils from your loudly announced plans to force the world into your image at the end of a sword. You’ve used the pen quite well to make that sword “legal” to a justice system that’s forsaken its every principle.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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