The Supreme Court Is Colliding With a Less-Religious America

[Krusso]

Very interesting article to us. Any comments?

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/12/how-supreme-court-champions-religious-liberty/617284/

 

Edited December 10, 2020 by Shawnster

[Friends just call me Ross]

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But this legal offensive to elevate “religious liberty” over other civic goals is coming even as the share of Americans who ascribe to no religious faith is steadily rising, and as white Christians have fallen to a minority share of the population.

 

That contrast increases the likelihood of a GOP-appointed Court majority sympathetic to the most conservative religious denominations colliding with the priorities of a society growing both more secular and more religiously diverse, especially among younger generations.

 

While most conservative analysts have cheered the Court’s moves in this area, centrist and liberal critics see the ingredients for a political explosion as the Court backs religious-liberty exemptions to laws on employee rights, health care, education, and equal treatment for the LGBTQ community.

 

“What we are seeing today is this effort to turn religious freedom into religious privilege,” Rachel Laser, the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, told me. Religious institutions and individuals are being given “the right to wield religious freedom as a sword to harm others, and frankly to dial back social progress in light of our changing demographics and progress toward greater equality.”

Oh...there's going to be an explosion all right.  

 

Very interesting article.  Thanks for sharing.