ME: We knew this was coming. Conservative Christianity is an now an excuse to break the law and deny people their human rights. Thank you Republican Party. Back when Ronald Reagan was president I referred to Republican Party as the New World Hezbollah, the American Party of God.
I was predicting the future more than describing the current reality at that time. And I was right.
S: Uh oh. Shades of Hitler. Many of Germany’s 30,000 Roma (Gypsies) were eventually sterilized and prohibited, along with Blacks, from intermarrying with Germans. About 500 children of mixed African-German backgrounds were also sterilized. New laws combined traditional prejudices with the racism of the Nazis.
ME: We must remember that from the very beginning many have pointed out it’s not make America great again, it’s make America white again.
S: True, true, true.
S: Another consequence of Hitler’s ruthless dictatorship in the 1930s was the arrest of political opponents and trade unionists and others whom the Nazis labeled “undesirables” and “enemies of the state.” The mere denunciation of a man as “homosexual” could result in arrest, trial, and conviction. Jehovah’s Witnesses, who numbered at least 25,000 in Germany, were banned as an organization as early as April 1933, because the beliefs of this religious group prohibited them from swearing any oath to the state or serving in the German military.
ME: Auschwitz was started as a camp for political prisoners, including journalists, who, of course, were enemies of the people.
S: Could it happen here?
ME: Not by that incompetent dolt, Trump.
Just as back in the days of Ronald Reagan I was seeing where the Republican Party was headed and was deeply worried about it, I can see that as Reagan laid the groundwork for what’s happening today, what Trump is doing today is laying the groundwork for what could very well be the turning of the United States into a fascist-theocratic dictatorship. Back then I was saying the danger was of these fundamentalists turning America into a Third World country, just as they did to China, just as they did to the great Islamic empire. These once technological and cultural leaders of the world degenerated once they turned inward and began believing in their own superiority and purity and the fundamentalist beliefs of their religions. Science is not at war with religion, with the exception of a few fundamentalist evangelical atheists. Neither is religion at war with science, except for a few fundamentalist evangelical Christians.
In spite of the minority status,they are a very powerful group in the United States. Courts are being packed all across the country up to the Supreme Court with ultra conservative judges who believe in their theology. Elections are being rigged in favor of the ultra conservative and religious fanatics. And behind it all, of course, are the ultra wealthy. Those who wish to turn us into Mexico — a tiny ruling class of the Dons and all the rest of us their peons, barely more than an other herd of cattle or sheep for them to exploit.
I knew then that I was regarded back then by many as being foolish and extreme in making this prediction, but time has borne me out.
There are times you really don’t want to be right. Even when you are certain that you are.
Another case, this one originally resolved in favor of justice and a decent society, overturned in favor of prejudice on appeal.
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> ..."we, in essence, run the risk of resurrecting the Jim Crow laws of the Old South." <
Exactly. The Christian fanatics determination to re-create their “right“ to discriminate against other religions and even other Christian sects must not be allowed. If their religious beliefs forbid them from taking certain actions at work, then it is their religious beliefs, not the laws of the land, which are denying them the ability to take certain jobs or operate certain businesses. I repeat, it is their own religion that sets these restrictions. The law simply says all must be treated equally.