Oh, and didn't the bible conveniently condone slavery, making it okay for righteous, god-fearing christians to own slaves? No more thinking required?
In 2013/2014 North Carolina had one rural legislator who proposed a bill to establish an official religion. The Republican Speaker of North Carolina’s House of Representatives declared the bill was dead on arrival and that the “Rowan County, North Carolina Defense of Religion Act of 2013” would not be getting a vote by the full House. This is nowhere near "North Carolina tried to declare an official state religion". Keep in mind that individual state crackpot legislators regularly introduce absurd bills in every state. Do I need to go through the absurd list of bills introduced in California over the past three decades. https://ideas.time.com/2013/04/08/can-u-s-states-have-official-religions/
Yeah, but let's not kid ourselves about which side of the political aisle the threat of religious oppression (or should I say, oppressive religion) stems from.
Actually it was two lawmakers but this is a larger judicial matter of nullification. And if you don’t think this coming, you have rose colored glasses on. Like I said, and I’m not pegging you as left or right, most right wingers don’t understand what a super majority Supreme Court means to their everyday rights and freedoms. Religious imposition is coming.
Dems are beginning to sweat and breath into the paper bag more than a little. I like that. REMEMBER KAVANAUGH!!!!
Abortion has been an issue back and forth between right and left for a long, long time. I'm not sure you can use that as an example that religion is suddenly threatening to overtake us. Gay rights not being established sooner? you can ask why it took so long to push suffrage movements worldwide. burning witches at the stake? I mean, ok we can go back to the beginning of the country, I suppose, but its not really relevant to today.
No one is arguing that the threat of religious oppression doesn't come from the right. We're just arguing that it is a real "threat". Shark attacks are a threat too, I guess. I just don't think they're going to keep me from going in the ocean.
Rush Limbaugh made the point... that no hearing on the appointee is required. That is, Trump can submit a name and the Senate can vote... and that's it. Confirmation! No way to "drag it out" if there's no hearing... unless a few Repubs don't go along with the party on this. Is this right??
Religious imposition is already here. From symbolic BS like tax payer maintained 10 commandment monuments on federal buildings, to anti Israeli sabotage prohibitions, to child bride permitting on wing nut states, to tax payers' money going to private theocratic education.