Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the devout Catholic conservative who has long warned of animus against religion in America, says in a new book that he believes the court’s landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was “perhaps the decisive point in our nation’s turn against religious liberty.”
Alito, who dissented sharply in the 2015 case, made the claim at Catholic University of America three years after Obergefell v Hodges in a speech that was not open to the public or widely covered at the time. The remarks were published this month in “So Ordered,” a collection of Alito speeches that he says reflect his judicial philosophy and outlook on the country.
Xtians believe that they deserve special privileges. They don’t recognize that as such, they just think it’s the natural order of the universe. They expect their chosen lifestyle of their special book club to be put up on a pedestal and never even have the precepts questioned.
The minute any of that unwarranted privilege is eroded in even the tiniest way, they view that as “but mah rights are being trampled!”