The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy | Robert Reich
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Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism

Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism

In a case centering on wrongful-death claims for frozen embryos that were accidentally destroyed at a fertility clinic, the Alabama supreme court ruled last Friday that frozen embryos are “children” under state law.

As a result, several Alabama in-vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics are ceasing services, afraid to store or destroy any embryos.

The underlying issue is whether government can interfere in the most intimate aspects of people’s lives – not only barring people from obtaining IVF services but also forbidding them from entering into gay marriage, utilizing contraception, having out-of-wedlock births, ending their pregnancies, changing their genders, checking out whatever books they want from the library, and worshipping God in whatever way they wish (or not worshipping at all).

All these private freedoms are under increasing assault from Republican legislators and judges who want to impose their own morality on everyone else. Republicans are increasingly at war with America’s basic separation of church and state.

  • teamevil@lemmy.world
    84·
    9 months ago

    Can someone please explain how this is any different from a county imposing Sharia law‽ Pretty sure the right is vehemently against that occuring. Why are their morals different, in the end it’s trying to control through religion.

    • rdyoung@lemmy.world
      55·
      9 months ago

      It’s exactly the same. But because it’s their god it’s somehow different, but it’s not.

    • SuperDuper@lemmy.world
      53·
      9 months ago

      Well you see, Sharia Law is imposed by brown people, so God hates it. Jesus was white, American, and a registered Republican, so God loves the brand of extremist Christian theocracy the GOP will bring upon us.

      /s

  • squiblet@kbin.social
    38·
    9 months ago

    When was the last time people were in doubt about that? Conservatives have been trying to pass laws that affect everyone based on their confused religious moralism for decades. Things like “blue laws” (banning sales of alcohol on Sunday) are connected to Christians trying to impose their religious ideas on people. Or the idea that someone’s testimony or oath can’t be believed if not sworn on a bible.

    • HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social
      15·
      9 months ago

      Did you ever see that one politician who swore up and down that America is a Christian nation because you swear into office on the Bible? Complete deer in headlights look when the interviewer explained that the Bible was an option, not a requirement.

  • audiomodder
    34·
    9 months ago

    There was a speaker at CPAC who just said that they’re trying to make the US a Christian nation by force, even if it means abandoning democracy.

  • RotatingParts@lemmy.mlEnglish
    34·
    9 months ago

    The people that want a theocracy want it based on their religion and their interpretation of that religion. This way they can present what they want as what god wants and that gives them complete control over you since you have to obey god.

  • Arbic@feddit.de
    20·
    9 months ago

    In a concurring opinion in last week’s Alabama supreme court decision, Alabama’s chief justice, Tom Parker, invoked the prophet Jeremiah, Genesis and the writings of 16th- and 17th-century theologians. “Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God,” he wrote. “Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.”

    Before joining the court, Parker was a close aide and ally of Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama supreme court who was twice removed from the job – first for dismissing a federal court order to remove an enormous granite monument of the Ten Commandments he had installed in the state judicial building, and then for ordering state judges to defy the US supreme court’s decision affirming gay marriage.

    Excuse me wtf

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        9 months ago

        Dogmatic ideology holding contradictory positions is a feature, not a bug. Break down whatever instincts for logic might exist, and people will believe anything.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    9 months ago

    Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism

    frozen embryos

    chilling example

    Nice.

  • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net
    16·
    9 months ago

    American Taliban, or a fascist theocracy. They believe that inequality based on some mythological identity is not just acceptable but morally correct.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    They’re using religion as their path to dictatorship. Really only Catholics were in open opposition to abortion until conservatives made it an evangelical talking point. They found a way to control women and then found the audience to market it to. Now they caught that car and have to find another target for their pack of dogs.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 months ago

    Republicans also want to bring back 19th century Company Towns. Then, they will fill them with obedient workers, who they can pay as little as they want and abuse as much as they like.

    This is why they overturned Roe vs Wade and they’re going after contraception next. They need citizen’s to breed.