Gay marriage, same-sex adoption under threat in USA

As the Supreme Court on Friday declared the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested the court should also reconsider past rulings establishing rights to contraception, same-sex relationships and gay marriage, as well.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/As-Supreme-Court-overturns-abortion-rights-could-17263329.php?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social_organic&utmcampaign=twittermoment

I don’t really have words.

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I haven’t clicked yet… but is your Supreme Court just announcing a list of who doesn’t get rights anymore? I hope we accept a bunch of refugees

Wow he’s an awful human, isn’t he?

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Luckily, none of these decisions have been made. But the following other supreme courts cases have been decided on the same premise (right to privacy) that was just overturned:

  • interracial marriage
  • same-sex marriage
  • right to consensual sex in the privacy of your own home
  • same-sex adoption
  • contraceptive access under employer health insurance
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For the sake of my own sanity I’m going to mute this thread, scream into the void, and I don’t know go throw rocks as hard as I can into other rocks.

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Basically, these people would be happy if The Handmaid’s Tale were reality. And it’s getting closer every day.

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Contraception at all. Thomas specifically mentions Griswold v Connecticut which legalized contraception.

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coolcoolcoolcool

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So much rage right now.

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Holding you all close and just… yeah. I don’t have words either.

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I would like to strangle Mitch McConnell. They’re all fuckers, but I hold him most accountable for his immoral Supreme Court shenanigans that gave us this current Handmaid’s Tale wet dream court.

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“Fuck Mitch McConnell” was by far the most popular chant at tonight’s protest.

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“Fuck SCOTUS” here. Which I do understand, but Ruth was on SCOTUS, so I didn’t participate in that one.

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Meh, fuck the current SCOTUS though, right?

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Man your chants were better than ours. Ours were not doing it for me

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(That’s our governor. Fuck him sideways.)

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Sidebar, but I find it incredibly suspicious that Congress is suddenly able to pass a bipartisan bill on gun control, after twenty-eight years of entrenchment, at the same moment Roe was overturned. It smacks of light conspiracy.

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It seems like Clarence Thomas wants to take away people’s rights. I wonder how he would like to be considered as 3/5 of a person if we want to go down that road. I never imagined that all of this could happen. Ugh!!

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