Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the ruling legalizing marriage equality nationwide marked “perhaps the decisive point” in America’s turn “against religious liberty.”
In his new book So Ordered, Alito focuses on Obergefell v. Hodges. The 5-4 decision was a landmark in civil rights, establishing a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry nationwide. But Alito, who dissented from the 2015 ruling, portrays it as a turning point against religious freedom.
Alito points to disputes involving LGBTQ+ rights as evidence that “support for religious liberty has cratered.” He cites cases involving businesses seeking religious exemptions from requirements governing services for same-sex couples or employee health coverage, including those that refuse to provide wedding services to gay couples or seek to limit health care for employees based on religious beliefs.
If your religion requires you to hate and condemn and persecute others for their mere existence, for circumstances far from their control, for the who they love, what they look like, and where they came from, you worship evil, and no I will not support your right to harm others because it’s your “Faith.” And for those who think that’s persecution, good. Because bad ideas deserve to be persecuted. You don’t have to hold those beliefs. That’s a choice. If you value hate more than you love your neighbours, then you’ve made a choice. Make better choices.
And stop calling yourself a Christian. I may not believe in any mythology, but there’s nothing more disgusting than watching people twist old myths into an excuse for cruelty, and I don’t care if it’s Christian Extremists, Islamic Extremists, or Heathen Extremists pretending to worship Odin. Cosplaying a zealot is not exercising “Religious liberty”, you’re just a sadist whatever your rationalization is.