Posts Made By: David Cotterell

Oddity:  The Supreme Court ends a constitutional right to obtain an abortion , saying it should be left to the States to decide, right after it just imposed a constitutional right to concealed carry of firearms, saying it cannot be left to the States to decide.

Dave

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

In which state can citizens get a reward for snitching?

  Texas

Dave

Texas S B 8 is still in effect.  "The Texas Heartbeat Act has been subjected to numerous lawsuits in state and federal court, but the statute has thus far withstood each of these court challenges and remains in effect."   - Wikipedia (article last updated in June 2022)

From a different article...March 2022  here

"Molly Duane, an attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is challenging the law, says providers also are "extremely and understandably fearful" of providing abortions even in medical emergencies because of the law's design, which allows individuals to enforce it through civil suits.

"A physician who made that determination in the moment would be doing so knowing that if someone second-guessed their judgment, [anyone] could file a lawsuit saying that you violated SB 8," she says.


and another article, April 2022 from the Guardian says, "SB 8 is not directly enforced by government officials, but includes an unprecedented private enforcement provision that allows any individual – including anti-abortion vigilantes with no connection to the patient – to sue abortion providers or anyone who “aids or abet” care. Those who bring successful suits can win at least $10,000 in damages. The scheme – meant to evade judicial review – has thus far allowed the law to remain in effect, despite previous legal challenges."

A judge named Pitman struck the law down on Oct 6 2021. The Fifth Circuit, then blocked Judge Pitman’s order  a few days later and left S.B. 8 in effect pending a December hearing. The Supreme Court's December ...."decision did not make any statement on the constitutionality of SB8, allowing the law to remain in enforcement"

So, Texas S B 8 is still in effect.  Including the snitch lawsuit methodology. If it had been struck down in any real or meaningful way there would have been headlines everywhere.  But, alas, crickets.

Dave

Same sex Marriage, Being Gay, Birth Control - only a matter of time....

Also, i promise not to use the 'Gilead' metaphor any more.  'Gilead' is from a fictional novel written by a Canadian.  It is not real.

Theocracy, on the other hand,  is entirely real and growing every day in the USA. 

Dave

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

One of the more moronic postings on this website to date.

You just keep getting more and more hysterical and absurd.

As an avowed atheist, as you have stated on this board, you should worry about the day YOU will be denied service due to your not being a Christian.   It's not a very big step from, "We won't make a wedding cake for your gay wedding." to "We won't sell wood to a Godless heathen Atheist like Richard Davis" once the laws are adapted..

For details of the Theocratic Republican dream have a look at the Texas Republican Convention Policy Statement..

Here in all its Godness...

Dave

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

You wrote this:

"As an avowed atheist, as you have stated on this board, you should worry about the day YOU will be denied service due to your not being a Christian".


I can only respond to your idiocy above by saying that there are not words in the English language strong enough to describe what an abjectly moronic and ridiculous utterance that is coming from you.

After reading your previous statement, I thought to myself "his mindset can't get any more hysterical and idiotic", but yet once again you proved me wrong.

Sir I must tell you, you're an absolute idiot.  

Coming from you, I can only take that as a compliment.  Thanks, Rich!  

SCOTUS overturns Matthew 6: 5-8

Tick tock......

Also,

Coaches and 35 players, parents and others in a kneeling huddle at the end of a high school football game, praying to Jesus is totally not coercive to the one kid who does not want to participate in the prayer but does want to continue as starting middle linebacker. 

Sure.

Next steps, the Lord's Prayer on the PA system at the beginning of the school day that every kid has to hear. The 10 commandments hanging on the cafeteria wall that every kid has to look at.  The 'invocation' at the school board or town council meeting.  I know these are the next steps because they have already been attempted numerous times at public schools and in courtrooms and town council meetings all over the USA over the past few decades.  The separation of Church and State laws have shut these attempts down every time.  Until now.  Because Church and State aren't nearly as separate as they were a week ago.  The religion pushers are going to try this stuff all over again, emboldened by the SCOTUS' recent decisions.....

Tick tock.  Baby steps.  Playing the long game since Falwell and Graham in the 1970's....  Theocracy is coming to a USA near you.
 
Will you continue to drink the poison and insist it's lemonade?

Dave

Prayer in public isn't the issue at all. As you say, Richard, it doesn't bother me. 

But

Prayer and any other trappings of Judeo-Christan religion being displayed/performed/encouraged/mandated at a publicly funded school or as part of any public administration or government entity smacks heavily of a state-approved religion which your founders expressly tried to avoid. 

Dave