Early this afternoon approximately fifty individuals gathered in 90 degree heat along Broadway (Highway 50) in Sedalia, Missouri to demonstrate in support of reproductive rights.
They were greeted with supportive car horn honking, hostile stares, and at least one extended middle finger.
There are a number of such demonstrations scheduled across Missouri over the next few days.
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Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Another reminder — the January 6 committee is a joke and nothing more than a smoke screen for Joe Biden’s failures. 12:13 PM · Jun 28, 2022
Eric Schmitt (r) should have waited an hour and a half. Not that it would have made any difference to him.
Just another member of the cult.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
…Joseph Kennedy lost his job as a high school football coach because he knelt at midfield after games to offer a quiet prayer of thanks. Mr. Kennedy prayed during a period when school employees were free to speak with a friend, call for a reservation at a restaurant, check email, or attend to other personal matters. He offered his prayers quietly while his students were otherwise occupied. Still, the Bremerton School District disciplined him anyway…
In Justice Sotomayor’s dissent:
…Photograph of J. Kennedy standing in group of kneeling players…
A footnote in the dissent:
…The Court recounts that Kennedy was “willing to say his ‘prayer while the players were walking to the locker room’ or ‘bus,’ and then catch up with his team.” Ante, at 4 (quoting App. 280–282); see also ante, at 5. Kennedy made the quoted remarks, however, only during his deposition in the underlying litigation, stating in response to a question that such timing would have been “physically possible” and “possibly” have been acceptable to him, but that he had never “discuss[ed] with the District whether that was a possibility for [him] to do” and had “no idea” whether his lawyers raised it with the District. App. 280….
America as a Fascist theocracy in the 21st Century. Who would have thought?
Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
The Supreme Court sent a strong message today that religious freedom will not be imperiled in America.
No one should have to choose between their job and practicing their faith. #SCOTUS
[….] 10:42 AM · Jun 27, 2022
Some of the responses:
1/ Really? No one should have to choose between their job and practicing their faith.
If I firmly believe before the day begins, everyone must pray to my God so that our work is good and safe. And, people who don’t pray my way are not good people and must be fired.
2/ What should people do: if they are told this mandatory prayer is not in the interest of the company and if they insist on such a prayer they are fired, be fired for their beliefs or not follow their beliefs?
3/ In this country so far, you do not have the religious freedom to shove your beliefs down anyone’s throat and if people resist your beliefs, they should not be fired or harassed.
Sarcasm.
Correction: The Supreme Court sent a strong message today that we Christian theocrats have the religious freedom to shove our beliefs onto everyone in public places.
But he didn’t have to choose Vick, that’s the whole point. “The district said that some students felt pressured into taking part and that it offered alternative, less public places to pray after games.” Kennedy choose to defy that. Freedom comes with responsibility, period!
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If I do something and my boss doesn’t like it, he tells me to stop and I do it anyway, I’m fired, that’s how it works. You GQPs made all these “at will” states and yet gripe when someone exercises it. Plus they offered accommodations, he chose to sue for 15-minutes of fame.
Fixed it:
“The Supreme Court sent a strong message today that Christian proselytizing will not be imperiled in America.”
You are a Christofascist. This isn’t your church. This is our country.
Serious question. Would you support a Muslim coach praying? Or someone else who isn’t Christian? I’ll wait.
Only yesterday she spoke our in favor of (another) Supreme Court decision that enforces Christian religious doctrine over the entire country. But you already know the answer to that.
Faith is not part of our government. Faith, civics and politics are separate entities. Can’t believe you don’t know that.
If a white man can kneel and pray in public (and be protected by a SCOTUS who CLEARLY does not represent a majority of US citizens), then so can those of us who kneel in protest. #ColinKaepernick
Pressuring students to pray with you is not religious freedom.
Kids shouldn’t be forced to pray by an authoritarian figure who decides play time
No is being denied their rights if they cant pray on a school football field – that is why we have church lady
We have entered an era of Christo fascism in this country.
Long before now.
So a white man can kneel and demonstrate what he believes in, but a black man can’t? Hypocrite. #ColinKaepernick
The problem with your position is that YOUR expression of religious freedom results in someone else’s coercion to comply (at worst) and possible shaming/bullying of non-Christian students (at best). It may be YOUR idea of freedom, but it stomps on other people’s rights.
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.”
Performative faith.
Uh, you voiced support for DJT’s proposed Muslim ban, Vic.
