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The Supreme Court is Meeting Today [1]
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Date: 2025-05-01
The Supreme Court is meeting today. Today they’re discussing religion in charter schools from a case in Oklahoma. At stake is whether or not the state should be required to fund a religious charter school.
One of the justices managed to bleat out that the law doesn’t permit religion to be taught in charter schools but allows teaching that being LGBTQ is a “perfectly legitimate lifestyle”. I don’t know, Sam Alito, maybe because it’s a perfectly legitimate lifestyle perhaps? Do I really need to go down the list of LGBTQ people, famous people, worthwhile people, people who’ve made major contributions to civilization, the one you’re trying to tear down? Some of them were even lawyers, like Roy Cohn, a protégé of your lord and master. Not that Roy Cohn was worthwhile but I’m not saying his lifestyle was illegitimate, you are.
Brett Kavanaugh, proof positive that absolutely anyone can be a Supreme Court Justice, managed to beer-belch out that having rules in place that says that charter schools can’t be religious is “rank discrimination against religion”. Brett Kavanaugh, Ladies and Gentlemen, he’ll be here much longer than we’d like.
Let’s pay a visit to the Supreme Court outhouse, they do have one as they are originalists, and regard for a moment what they’re currently using for toilet paper. This piece says “Congress shall pass no law establishing a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Hmm, the state paying for a religious charter school seems plainly in violation of this line. It looks like the state Oklahoma constitution says something just like it.
One of the arguments for allowing this is that the parents of students will have secular alternatives to the religious instruction in other schools. Left outside of this argument completely are the long-suffering Oklahoma taxpayers who will nevertheless be forced to pay for religious instruction, instruction they may or may not believe in, if this goes through. The founders thought this would be tyranny. The Supreme Court seems to think this is just a day ending in “y”. You’d think that an originalist would listen to what the founders would have to say but they’re not really originalists, they’re really agendaists.
I’m not in Congress but if I were I would propose a law. The premise of the law would be that if the Supreme Court really thinks that our modern society should be governed and our laws interpreted to reflect the world as it existed in the eighteenth century then the Supreme Court building should reflect that. There should be no electricity, no gas, no plumbing, no phone service, no screens on the windows, no tablets, cellphones, or computers. There should be no heating at all save for fireplaces. The work should be done by candlelight and the minutes of the court should be taken down by hand and all work done with quill pen. There really should be a Supreme Court outhouse and they can know the summer joys of finding a hornet’s nest in there. The justices should go to and fro on horseback and there should be a hitching post out front. Let’s make the Supreme Court building as retrograde as their ideas.
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