I see you saying there's no point getting vaxxed because you can still get and spread Delta.😡
1) If—instead of politicizing the lethal virus and suing to worship in church—you had stayed home, masked, and gotten vaxxed in the first place, we wouldn't have so many awful variants.
So yes, your selfish decision to subjugate our shared humanity to your comfort and convenience risked and still risks the health and safety of others.

Basically, by helping undermine public health measures, you helped create a virus more transmissible than Ebola. So well done.
2) Vaccines are not 100%. They're about lowering our risks. The more we all do that, the better we all are.

Vaccinated people will get and spread Delta, BUT AT NOWHERE NEAR THE RATES of unvaxxed people. And are infectious for a shorter time.
cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
3) You are better off getting vaccinated. The more people that get vaxxed, the better off we all are and the less likely we are to see even worse variants.

And if your vaccination has the chance to save one life or one person from getting a deadly disease, why wouldn't you?

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8 Aug
Hi,
Constitutional attorney here.

Your freedom is not unlimited. All of your rights are limited in some way: free speech, religious freedom, 2nd Amendment, privacy (even in your home).

Most obviously, your freedom isn't a license to harm or risk the lives and health of others.
Your "freedom" doesn't include the right to drive drunk.
Your 2nd Amendment "freedom" doesn't let you carry a gun on a plane.
Your freedom of speech doesn't include defamation.
Your home can be searched with a warrant.
Your religious freedom ends where others' rights begin.
These limits are the price we pay for living in a civilized society.

About the only unlimited right you have is freedom of thought. And while you're free to believe any bullshit floating around this interconnected hellscape, that doesn't give you a right to act on it.
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Some parasitic insects lay their eggs in other living things. The larvae hatch and eat the live host from the inside out, leaving an empty shell behind.

The Supreme Court is doing the same with the Voting Rights Act, state/church separation, and, coming soon, abortion rights.
SCOTUS is leaving behind the empty shells of the Voting Rights Act, the First Amendment, and reproductive rights, while not actually striking down any statutes or overturning any precedent. This one weird trick suggests incremental change, not massive legal rewrites.
It's dishonest, but also political. Directly striking down or overruling, for instance, the VRA would build more popular support to #ExpandTheCourt. So instead we get the Shelby County and Brnovich cases, which gut the VRA and leave us with an empty husk. ImageImageImageImage
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25 Mar
The Supreme Court is going to hand down the decision on whether the Catholic Chruch’s foster care services in Philadelphia can discriminate against LGBTQ people any day now (Fulton v. Philadelphia). With this court, I’m not optimistic. Here’s what I’ll be looking for…
First, Sotomayor’s dissent. Because she’ll get it right. Read that first. I have little hope that she'll be writing the majority opinion. The Supreme Court is broken, politically packed, hopelessly Christian nationalist.

If you don’t know the Fulton case, it’s pretty simple....
Philadelphia takes care of foster children. It contracts out some of those responsibilities. Catholic Social Services is a contractor but refused to vet LGBTQ couples as potential foster parents or visit their homes. Why? Because Jesus.
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I'm getting a lot of questions about the prayer before the #ImpeachmentTrial at the Senate. This #THREAD has your answers.

The prayer is given by Senate Chaplain Barry Black. Yes, the Senate has a chaplain. Yes, your tax dollars pay his salary. And the numbers are shocking: Screenshot of the senate chaplain saying the prayer. Text of the Senate Chaplain's prayer.
I wrote about this back in 2016. patheos.com/blogs/freethou…

From 2000-2015, Congress spent more than $10 million on prayers, the vast majority of which are to the Christian god (more than 96% of prayers in the House were Christian).
The Senate Rules give the chaplain ONE job: to pray.
govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SM…

Do chaplains do other things? Sure. But they're paid to pray. The claim that they accommodate the religious freedom of Members of Congress may have made sense when DC was an unpopulated swamp... Excerpts from the Senate rules showing the chaplains single Excerpts from the Senate rules showing the chaplains single Excerpts from the Senate rules showing the chaplains single
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16 Dec 20
The former PD captain claimed he was working for the "Liberty Center for God and Country." It's goal is to "restor[e] our nation’s Godly heritage."

In this country, #ChristianNationalism is at the root of so much division, immorality, and, now we're even leaning, violence.
Like the name, Liberty Center for God and Country's mission statement is a textbook example of #ChristianNationalism.
libertycgc.com/our-purpose/

But wait, there's more...
Steven Hotze is a #ChristianNationalist radio host/TX GOP bigwig. You'll remember him as the guy that asked Gov Abbott to issue "shoot to kill" for #BlackLivesMatter protesters this summer.

He's CEO of God&Country and penned the twaddle for its site. texastribune.org/2020/07/03/ste…
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Glad to see so many people waking up to threat #ChristianNationalism poses to our republic and our pluralistic democracy.

If you've just recognized this existential threat, welcome to the fight. It's not over because Trump is on his way out the door. There's a lot left to do.
If you want to learn more about #ChristianNationalism read up....

@kathsstewart's The Power Worshippers is a great look at the power players and monied interests that drive CN. She opened the back of the watch and showed us the interlocking gears.
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Check out @C_Stroop's writings on #ChristianNationalism. As an #exvangelical, she's got a valuable perspective and is especially erudite and observant when it comes to the authoritarianism inherent in CN.

Here's a good example of her writing: conversationalist.org/2019/11/14/if-…
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