In a blessed savage move, Politico exposed that the human time capsules of American wrongdoing in the Supreme Court voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. So it looks like the only real hidden agenda in politics is that of a bigot Supreme Court Justice.
Think again if you wrongfully assumed that a Democratic presidency meant the gays were safe. The information leaked from an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by the media company.
Long (sexist) story, short: If the preliminary vote materializes into law, a half-century guarantee of federal constitutional protection of abortion rights for women will cease to exist nationwide. Politico noted that justices can and sometimes change their votes as draft opinions circulate, and major decisions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until days before a decision is unveiled.
The end may seem near, but it’s still not too late. And let’s be clear — the war on abortion is a fight against gay rights, especially considering it also directly impacts queer women (and trans folks who’ve yet to achieve federal protection).
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Marriage equality created the illusion of securing a future founded on equal rights. The prejudice-breathing dragon that acts as the GOP is only beginning to scratch rights off their target list. If they succeed with abortion, what’s to stop them from reverting the rights of every group that’s not cis straight white Catholic male?
In other words, it’s time to act now or suffer *in gay* later.
If you are out here saying “marriage equality is next” please do keep in mind that at least one state has made care for trans youth a felony right now and is currently in court defending that law. There is no “next” – the horror is NOW.
— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) May 3, 2022
Let’s be clear: This is a draft opinion. It’s outrageous, it’s unprecedented, but it is not final.
Abortion is your right — and it is STILL LEGAL. https://t.co/s9R7w99n71— Planned Parenthood (@PPFA) May 3, 2022
Abortion access is an LGBTQ issue. pic.twitter.com/8XeOKuiQWL
— GLAAD (@glaad) September 3, 2021
🚨 Do not let anti-abortion activists gaslight you today. Their movement has never been nonviolent since Roe v. Wade was decided.
There have been murder, systemic violence, and so much more 🚨 https://t.co/Fno1NL50HL
— Zach Stafford (@ZachStafford) May 3, 2022
Timing supports this theory. The draft opinion is from February. What’s happened since? Dissents circulated laying out both the significant flaws in Alito’s reasoning and the opinion’s dangerous politicizing consequences.
Sheer speculation but what else is Twitter for right now https://t.co/fgzpE8fz4W
— Corey Stoughton (@CoreyStoughton) May 3, 2022
Mister P
They absolutely are out to chip away at everyone’s rights but their own.
We have to vote these repugnants out.
Register and vote.
metta
I still get the legal updates on the marriage equality case, and the religious right has been recently filing to ask the SCOTUS to review the case.
ZzBomb
These people won’t rest until they turn this country into a white, straight, cisgender, “christian” theocratic autocracy. Alito’s opinion is down right scary, subjecting people’s 14th Amendment protections to elected officials to regulate will set a dangerous precedent.
frapachino
Oh brother!
nmcowboy87
Sadly our country will end with even thouse kinds of people being made against the law. No on one even your own people will be able to like everyone. Just look at The Original Twilight Zone from the 60s they made an episode where a man wished to be alone and then he relized he could not be a lonely. He wished everyone to he him and realized how much he hated himself. In the end even it will be no freedom for anyone let’s all be illegal.
dario717
Never trust a republican to do anything good.
Cam
Trump stated he would appoint justices who would overturn “Those Awful Gay Rights decisions”.
So everyone who has Republican parents or relatives who defended voting for Republicans by saying “Oh, well the court would NEVER overturn Roe v Wade or Gay Marriage”, time to start pressuring them at the upcoming Memoria Day and 4th of July parties.
Mack
The American Taliban is taking control. Pretty soon we’ll be a “Faked Christian Iran”.
gregg2010
The question is not “if” but “when.” It will probably start in Texas as soon as R vs. W is overthrown, and the Texas AG will tell agencies they no longer have to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Challenges, then on to the Supreme Court. It doesn’t look good.
Eternal.Cowboy
It started in Texas awhile back. The AG is considering issuing an order that says only the SCOTUS ruling only applies to government entities and for private entities same sex marriage is still illegal per state law.
Brian
The leaked decision includes talk of Obergefell and Lawrence. Alito clearly wants to make marriage illegal again, and even more absurdly, he wants to criminalize gay sexual contact too. This is an extremely tiny minority at the fringe.
I also heard an interview with a Republican who said that we “need to seriously consider” who should be allowed to buy condoms. He suggested that condom sales be limited to heterosexual married couples who already have children. If you’re young and dating, you wouldn’t be able to buy condoms. If you’re a gay man — at any age, regardless of your relationship status — you’d be prohibited from buying condoms. These bigots are so completely insane.
MarionPaige
the Republican Party has been consistent in its quest to control the federal courts. Focusing on abortion rights, gay rights, civil rights simply shows an ignorance of the Republican objective.
nmcowboy87
When they cancel themselves what will they do no amount of money will be able to undo the laws they so quickly choose to back with out thinking how it would effect them. A foreign power will easly take control as no one will be available to fight them off from prison
Prax07
Can’t we just wall off (like in Escape from NY, not like Trump’s joke wall) and disown Texas and Florida? Give Texas to Mexico and offer Florida to Cuba. Lure all the repuglicans and conservatives to both states for a mega maga rally and block all of them from coming back onto valid US soil.
jt1990
Now you want to “wall off” something. When us Deplorables tried that with Mexico, we caught hell for it! As for Florida, we have practically given Miami away to Cuban and Hispanic thugs already. If anything, Republican states need to make things less appealing before we become overpopulated by blue state migrants!
nmcowboy87
I think everone that’s not happy with Texas or Florida should leave after destroying the local economy by making all homes, businesses, infrastructure and land uninhabitable. Then when make it mandatory for all republican to live in one of those states with a North Korean style de militarized zone so they could not leave and have to fight one another to survive it be like Mad Max and tge rest of us just keep on going.
basils_Herald
Queer rights are actually already under assault in this latest attack on abortion. First, trans people also get abortions and this is another problem in trans healthcare. Second, Obergefell v. Hodges precedent is based on Roe v. Wade precedent. Third, simply by revisiting precedent that was already re-affirmed by the SCOTUS in 1992 and has ~70% support amongst American voters today is a departure from the very notion of precedent itself. Roe v. Wade informs more to aspects of LGBTQ rights than Obergefell v. Hodges (not to downplay how big a deal O v. H is too!).
jt1990
I’m supposed to be a good Republican, but I may have to reconsider my stance on Roe vs. Wade. I’m tired of kids. Seems like I can’t shop for groceries or date a hot single mom without some screeching kid tagging along. I’m beginning to think abortions are not such a bad thing after all!
Heywood Jablowme
“I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now!” – Homer Simpson (and jt1990?)
jt, check out the book “Freakonomics” (2006) where they attribute the dramatic drop in crime after about 1990 to Roe v. Wade. Unwanted kids often grow up to be criminals, go figure!
nmcowboy87
I feel our country is in need of new leaders for Liberty and Justice for all not just those that can pay for the right. It’s about the base and financial backers to the point the founders would be ashamed to see what is. I am sad to live in this country but it seems like the rest of the world is going in the same direction just in a different way. I hope some comes along soon that will honestly make America Great Aagain and not just be full of hot air like the Republicans and Donald Trump
Kangol2
Just keep in mind that these radical SCOTUS justices were appointed by RepubliQans:
George H.W. Bush put Clarence Thomas on the court;
George W. Bush put Samuel Alito and John Roberts on the court;
Don the Treasonous Con put Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett on the court.
Now, keep in mind that the GQP has lost 7 of the last 8 US presidential elections. A majority of Americans have voted against that party in each election since 1992, save in 2004. A minority, which includes far too many gay people, have been voting for these extremist RepubliQans. I don’t think even a push to strip again gay equality and rights will wake them up, but it certainly should wake the rest of us and get us out there voting. It’s like that moment in 2019, after Don the Con had slipped into office, and a Black woman had to remind the White women protesting at the Women’s March against Don the Con that a majority of White women voted for Don the Con, despite his horrible track record, down to admitting he violently assaulted women. What on earth were they thinking?
BaltoSteve
Think on this, they failed with their coup on 01/06. Now, with the midterms coming up, this information gets leaked and they get to the opportunity to paint Democratic protesters as unlawful and inciting riots. Which then allows them to paint Democratic leaders as being soft on crime. Let’s face it, to win elections, both parties have to court the independents. Now that party can point to a win in their platform, and have shining examples for their stump talking points. Two things they can use to indicate to independents they are capable of pushing their agenda, even when they are the “minority.”
Polaro
If the republicans do not face a resounding defeat this November, and I mean record book drubbing, they will rachet up their attacks. Can democrats get that riled up over abortion? While most Americans believe women should have access to abortion services, most Americans do not like abortion. Will they be smart enough to understand the underlying risks? You’ve got to be kidding. Democrats have already turned on Biden, for no good reason. Democrats can’t be trusted to focus, remain steadfast in support of our leaders, or be depended on to actually bother to vote. Gay marriage is probably dead next. We’ll never get job protections. Trans people will not get health care rights. But, hey, you have alternative pronouns that you know piss people off, which is the only reason to demand people respect them.
IvanPH
I am glad that even the woke crowd agrees that people who get pregnant are called WOMEN and not “birthing people”.
monty clift
Sad that your main “concern” here is words. Nobody cares if you’re offended. Snowflake.
johncp56
We all saw this coming when the last scum bag in the office, and mitch to bitch, pushed? three judges through!!, fact?no?; and blocked Obama`s choice,! fact ? no?!! scummy scummy GOP greasy scum, we are all in trouble !!! women!! grab those old white ass hats by the balls and pull for all of us