"I have no liberties because two people of the same sex love each other! Waaah!" Shut the fuck up Alito.

Is he stupid, or what? Freedom of religion is that you can believe what you want, not that you are free to demand others to follow the rules of your faith.

Religious Freedom means you have the right to your religion, yourself.

Calling religious supremacism your "freedom", .. is called gaslighting.

Alito is at least being authentic in his gaslighting.

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Someone should remind the bigot that so was interracial marriage.

Of course he ignores that marriage is a civil contract that exists outside of religion. Why would he let facts get in the way of his sexist position.

How is any human dumb enough to convince themselves that's how liberty works?

Genuinely baffling

To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.

only if this asshole considers a "liberty" to impose his will on others... which of course he does

Another candidate to be tied in the town square

Religious indoctrination is one of the worst forms of child abuse.

"In dissent from that ruling," he said in the 2018 address, "I expressed my worry that equating the expression of certain views with bigotry -- or, if you like, with dignitary harm -- would drive believers out of public life."

Alito suggests that his prediction has come to pass.

"Quite suddenly, religious liberty has become controversial," Alito said in a newly published 2022 speech to the Magnificat Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting Catholic culture and traditions.

So the lifetime appointee on the most powerful court, the majority of whom are religious believers who willingly impose their will on others, in a governmental and political environment controlled by religious believers in every branch of government, believes that the Obergefell decision "dr[o]ve believers out of public life."

Big wiping-his-tears-with-hundred-dollar-bills energy here.

The cases he uses as examples involve businesses threatened with punishment for refusing to provide services for gay weddings and faith-based organizations harmed by government health or employment regulations without any religious exemption.

"What we see in these and other cases," Alito says in the 2022 speech, "is a refusal to live in peace with those who violate the new moral code." He says the dynamic will "virtually guarantee that the Supreme Court will continue to see a steady stream of religious-liberty cases."

To be clear, the "new moral code" that is being "violated" is: Treat other human beings like equal human beings.

There is no deeper meaning here. He's upset that he doesn't view LGBTQ people as deserving the right to equally participate in society, and is therefore the one being oppressed.

If they don’t like gay marriage don’t have one. It really is that simple.

Your religious beliefs shouldn’t affect what I can do.

Why does the government even have to recognize marriages? It seems like govt overreach to be involved in a religious ceremony. Abolish marriage certificates and just set your partner as your emergency contact.

He's such an insufferable whiny bitch.

If I forbid you from eating ketchup because my religion forbids ketchup, you would think I am insane and laugh me all the way to the fridge.

But somehow, we keep entertaining these morons.

Against religious oppression. Loss of or difficulty to find the freedom to oppress others is what Alito is mourning. Your religion doesn’t ask you to stop others from sinning, it commands you to preach the message of Jesus (and perhaps the old testament if your particular flavor of Christianity is a fire and brimstone variety), and to tell others to repent or ask forgiveness and become religious - there’s a difference between the choice to become saved, and forcing it on others by direct and active oppression, which isn’t a choice. Jesus didn’t say to force religion on people, he very specifically said that’s not the way to make his father happy or support his cause.

That being said, fuck modern organized religions for the most part, I find almost all of them to be born of and run by conmen.

These fuckers won’t ever be intellectually or morally honest. They must be discarded from public discourse. Codify everything, pack the “Supreme Court”, if we can’t dispense with it altogether.

Preventing same sex marriage is the restriction on religious liberty. Religious liberty includes the right to not be religious and to not be committed to following religious rules.

I feel like my religious liberty isn't respected. My religion considers capitalism to be a sin in line with theft. When you don't give to the poor, you sin. Go on, Alito. Rule for my liberty.

Are the people who are forcing religious folks to marry someone they don't want to in the room with us right now?

This guy is infringing on my "liberty" to have him stfu

This depends entirely on the notion that "religious freedom" is the freedom to impose your religion on others.

"perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against his religious liberty."

FTFY

And they will abolish it nationally like they did abortion.

Fight, leave, or buy a gas mask.

Alito doesn't want religious liberty, he wants religious tyranny. The U.S. is not a theocracy, at least not yet, and it is horrifying this clergyman is in the highest level of power.

Wikipedia:

Religious abuse is abuse administered through religion, including harassment, humiliation, spiritual abuse, or religious violence. Religious abuse may also include the misuse of religion for selfish, secular, or ideological ends, such as the abuse of a clerical position.

This is such an Alito thing to say; taking a fact, that people were increasingly turned away from the church by anti-gay rhetoric, and then distorting the cause and reframing the result as a "Turn against religious liberty."

Most Alito line ever, 10/10 no notes.

What a weirdo.

This motherfucking scum of the earth is going to do his book tour, then retire after the midterms but before the new year and make way for Eileen Cannon to fill his spot.

This is my fear Dude.