Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard a case of a proselytizing football coach that could unravel decades of church/state jurisprudence and open the door to public school employees effectively pressuring children to adopt their religion, whether or not that’s their stated goal.
(That, by the way, would be an outcome far more serious that the “groomer” lies spread by conservatives about LGBTQ+ teachers and their allies.)
I remember the big uproar because JFK was Catholic...and now we have a SCOTUS that is heavily Catholic...smfh
There is nothing supreme about this Catholic heavy court!
Yeah, I hear it is 7 out of 9 are catholic.
Wow, this looks really bad! There are at least 6 reasons why the Supreme Court should never have agreed to hear the case. 1. The plaintiff lost in every lower court that heard the case; 2. The plaintiff's actions clearly violated the separation of church and state; he was on duty and showing off when he went onto the field to pray; 3. His actions were coercive to the players under his supervision; 4. While he was grandstanding, he was not supervising his players; 5. The District did not fire him; he was placed on paid leave, and when his contact expired, he did not apply to renew it; 6. The plaintiff moved out of the state, making him intelligible to bring a suit in that state.
If the SCOTUS rules in this plaintiff's favor, that would not only be a huge blow to the constitutional separation of church and state, but also an indication that they will also overturn Roe v. Wade (which is, at bottom, also a case involving the encroachment of religion on secular territory). Theocracy here we come! And with DJT likely to steal the 2024 election if he is not safely behind bars, make that an autocratic theocracy. Or would that be theocratic autocracy?
Well stated.
However you want to call it, it's bad fucking news.
To me, this is just another sign of religions waning numbers. We will see more and more of this desperation in coming months / years.