Politics The Supreme Court's week of big decisions

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  1. Hoopguru

    Hoopguru Well-Known Member

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    I agree, teachers shouldn't push anything but rather teach the curriculum.
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Agreed, teachers shouldn't push their beliefs on students. They should teach their students to think for themselves. Critical thinking is imperative to surviving in the real world. It's one, if not the most important of things to learn.
     
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    Thats exactly what my wife say's, an elementary teacher for close to 4o years.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Have you considered the possibility that your wife posts here under the name "Chris Craig"?

    barfo
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I doubt that her two worst enemies, are Chis and Craig.
     
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    Barrett recusing from gay rights case isn't the same as Sotomayor recusing from women's rights case. Barrett had actively campaigned, and belongs to organizations that actively campaign, for LGBTQ people to have no rights. Period.

    Of course hating gays is one of the reasons she was appointed.
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    If she is a short balding white dude then yes.
     
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    Bump. Big one today.
     
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    The Extreme Court has clearly already decided a case they are hearing involving a homophobe who is distraught over services she was not asked to provide that her business does not offer.

    A web designer who does pages for dogs and stuff but NOT life events is thinking maybe in future she might want to do web design for events and maybe a hypothetical gay couple would want a web page for their not yet existing wedding. And she is a Christian so of course she hates gays. It would violate her free speech by "forcing speech" since a web page would imply an endorsement of, oh the horror, equality.

    The Extremist have made it clear their minds were made up before the case was argued that anyone can deny goods/services to gays if Jesus.

    I am wondering if that also applies to denying service to Black people, mixed race couples, Jews, immigrants, Muslims? The Extreme Court has made it clear they want to erase not just the 21st century but the second half of the 20th as well. Will they take the opportunity to overturn the Civil Rights Act?
     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    I'll just start a business and disallow all Christians from service. I doubt they would mind, right?
     
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    " 5% of all sales will be donated in your name to the Church of Satan."
     
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    If the supremacist court votes in favor of the case, yeah people should start doing that.
     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    As Bobby Brown sagely proclaimed, "It's my prerogative."
     
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    The messed up thing is if someone did either of those, some christian would bring them to the supreme court saying it violates there religious rights and win.

    Their rights are protected, but everyone elses rights don't matter apparently.
     
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    The lawyers for the homophobe, so called Alliance Defending Freedom (variously referred to as Alliance Defending Fascism or Alliance Defending Freedom to Hate) are so persecuted. After arguing in favor of refusing service to gays, they went to a Virginia restaurant and couldn't get service.
    Exactly what they said their client had the right to do! And they were OUTRAGED!!!
     
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    But...but, their rights shouldn't be affected, only those they don't like right? That's how they want it anyway. That's what the supremacist court is doing.
     
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