• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    While the Supreme Court rules against a Rastafarian for his religion in the same week.

    They’re really sending a message about which religion gets protection.

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      This one really pisses me off.

      The guy brought in a printout of the controlling fifth circuit opinion that was directly applicable to him, and the prison guards literally threw the court order in the trash before trashing his constitutional rights.

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        5 days ago

        Well, he chose the wrong religion to have any religious freedom.

        The Nat-C’s think that religious freedom just means choosing the “right” denomination of xtianity and definitely don’t believe in actual religious freedom which would require a separation of church and state, which they absolutely deny.

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        Yes, absolutely what the Seven Mountain Mandate Nat-C’s want. You have the “religious freedom” to “choose” between a narrow set of xtian sects.

        Everything else is suspect and anyone choosing something else is to be treated like second class citizens, if not outright persecuted.

        People in the “right” xtians sects are to be granted unwarranted privilege and and put on pedestals, as it was before.