06-27-2022, 06:29 PM
(06-27-2022, 05:23 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: My thoughts.
It is a pretty unpopular decision among the populace. Only a minority are standing up to cheer about it. For the rest, it is just a condition based upon religion that is being forced on them. Alienation and insulation are ultimately not very good most religions, particularly when it appears that the group has sacrificed their purported ethics to arrange the situation.
The question is, "How will voters respond in the fall?". Offhand, I would think it would be a toss-up. But if the court continues with its uber-conservative agenda, I can't help but think there would be a sizeable backlash, even impacting areas the GOP thinks of as "safe".
As frightening as the intentions of the Court's conservative majority and the Evangelical right appear to be in terms of things like abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage, it's not limited to those types of issues.
There is also a very real desire by the Evangelical right to erode the line between church and state, and with the Court's recent decisions in Carson v. Makin and Kennedy v. Bremerton, it seems the Court's conservative majority is in agreement.
These are all things voters will have to consider. They must decide how much they value and want to retain the implicit right to privacy, the freedom to enjoy bodily autonomy, the ability to legally marry anyone you want, the continued separation of church and state, etc.
