Probably. The dumbest part of it is that the same argument Roberts is clearly trying to build could have been made when the precedent was set…i.e., that TV and mass printing, etc., had made “technological access” to porn skyrocket. It clearly did not win the day, so any adjustments they make to the strict scrutiny standard on that basis is literally nothing but kkkristofascism.
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Religion, corruption, theft, oil. Sounds like those Protestants trying to get land grants from the king of Spain by saying they were Catholic, then immediately turning around to rebel against Mexico, then within 10 years rebel against America.
To my mind, Protestantism elevated an inferior class of people, bitter after sitting in the mud of Europe until the day the King became Pope and armed them against their social superiors.
Arm the disaffected, rewrite the foundational documents, kill the educated in the name of the richest man in the land. Sounds like the Reformation to me. Of course, that only happened in Northern Europe.
British food vs Italian food. German poetry vs French poetry. Plain to see there is a drop off in the quality of life and mind of the Northern European.
Perhaps connected to the widespread slaughter of their foundational populations. In a thousand years a class of people had been unable through intelligence or wit or service or effort, to find a place in their society.
They got one with the sword, then abandoned their hierarchy at the first opportunity, came to America and soon adopted the status of Kings themselves, dissolving into hatred and violence against their traditional enemy, the Catholic, and the African slave, who could be treated with the contempt their own people had been treated with all those long sea miles before.
If you count the criminal subpopulations of our country, evey one has suffered institutional prejudice by the Protestant-owned and controlled US government. Italians? Check. Blacks? Check. The Irish? Check.
US Catholics are unrecognizable to Catholics worldwide. They had to keep their mouths shut until it was time to agree with the powers that have always been. Today, as always.
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Wow, you’re nursing a very old grudge.
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I think there a few holes in your historical narrative that negatively affect your conclusions. You might want to ponder the adage that begins “Those who live in glass houses…
The Protestant Reformation began with Martin Luther objecting to the (Catholic, duh) Pope’s practice of selling for money “Get out of Purgatory free” “indulgences, to finance among other things the construction of the magnificent St. Peter’s Basilica at Vatican City.
Don’t forget a great crime heralded the events leading tge Emperor Constantine declaring Catholicism true, branding a very diverse array of other Christian sects and their writings, gleaned from oral traditions of Jesus in many separate communities, heresy and ordered them and their writings be exterminated. It was a remarkably successful effort.
It was only with the chance discovery in 1945 by a young Egyptian peasant of the Nag Hammadi library what the breadth and depth of early Christianity encompassed.
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Religion, corruption, theft, oil. Sounds like those Protestants trying to get land grants from the king of Spain by saying they were Catholic, then immediately turning around to rebel against Mexico, then within 10 years rebel against America…Ahhh… some Texas History ! A required subject for every Texas student for decades. Almost always in the 7th grade. When I went thru it they were telling a very different story; brave settlers fighting off enslavement by a cruel & despotic Emperor, Remember The Alamo etc etc. I hope they’ve updated the curriculum but wouldn’t guarantee it. But even if they did they may be leaving out the Oath of Fealty that every Texican settler signed to receive their land grant. And then promptly rebeled against… We were a tricky lot !
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GOP: “Not really interested in protecting children from creepy GOP members of Congress”
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This just in …
Rethugliklan members of the US Senate’s Armed Services Committee and Secretary Of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth today jointly thanked the Federal Bureau of Investigation for “the most exhaustive background check since Brett Kavanugh’s.”
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I have been told this. My concern is on the very obvious surface. What King would allow a religion that did not serve him? The Protestant sects are a product of power, and they all made the King divine. I think we can say that’s pretty fucking obvious, no links required.
I had a character on here tell me all about the Hugenots, and didn’t reply when I asked him why France as a Catholic country should have allowed a religion that abhorred it.
For over a thousand years there was only one religion in the West. That has imprinted itself on the predisposition of all Western people. Yet there is a marked difference between those peoples.
It is fair to say that Protestant culture - now, let’s face it, right wing culture - is mostly second rate. That speaks pretty well to a continuity of society that was not ‘reformed’.
The Reformation only happened in Protestant countries, but somehow an American and English approach to history is that it was a great revolution for the people over the church. Yeah, just in Germany, England, Holland, etc.
Religion has been lip service in this country since the begining. It approved of slavery, and now approves of fucking the environment to death. The rest is just pedophile scandals and Jets 4 Jesus.
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This applies to regional empires as well. It has happened at least twice in Japanese history as well, possibly three times. China, India, Roman, Persia, etc.
Barking.
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Porn gets “new eras” but abortion still has to conform to 1235’s Henry de Bracton?
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Sorry, I should have adopted wholesale your interpretation of history through books rather than just wondering why every violent mob in modern history has constituent members largely from the same racial and religious subpopulation. Connected in any way with our present situation politically? No?!
You don’t care, you have a wall of tripe to shelter behind, and an unthought historical lie to live by. Maybe if you had been raised in a sectarian country it would be more obvious. Maybe you’re so smug that can’t see the truth of mankind’s monkey nature and its idiotic and bloody origins amd devices.
Not sure who is more stupid, the one who blindly believes what they are told, or the one that blindly believes everything they are told is a lie. Either way, our country just got taken over by a religious group that was founded on the belief that black people have been told by God they can have their children sold from them, and must work in chains without pay.
That’s the level, bud. If you don’t see the connection, good luck. You’re about to be drowned in the result.
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The way I’ve thought about it ever since Roberts brought up the ‘calling balls and strikes’ business when he was seeking confirmation, is that SCOTUS doesn’t call balls and strikes. That’s what the lower courts do. The cases that get to SCOTUS are those where the shape and dimensions of the strike zone are being debated.
So yeah, the 5th Circuit should call balls and strikes in accordance with the strike zone as already defined by present and past SCOTUS decisions, which means it should apply strict scrutiny here. And if plaintiffs want to appeal to the Supreme Court to change the definition of the strike zone, that’s their business. But first the Supremes should send it back down for the 5th to rule properly.