The Supreme Court is about to let religion ruin public education

As Kavanuagh’s comment demonstrated, the Republican-appointed justices seemed to feel that in America today, it is religious people who are the victims of discrimination and whose needs are ignored.
So the group who are tax exempt and have many of their religious holidays as nationally recognized paid holidays, as well as have had the last 47 presidentail elects be of their religion (not including in other positions of authority), are suddenly victims of discrimination?

If you didn’t vote Harris, you voted for this.
- Upvoting to counter the spineless cowards who enabled Nazi America.
  
  "B-b-but, muh Marxist dialectic materialism requires that I vote ideologically and totally disregard all dissident opinions"
- There have been no new Supreme Court nominees since the election, so even if Harris had won, it would not have changed this.
  
  Hey we don't know, maybe Harris would've expanded the Supreme Court!
  Ok maybe we know.
- Actually no. Refusing to vote for a genocidal candidate, regardless of which side of the aisle or gender they are, is always a good choice. We are not free until we are all free. I demand my politicians not just be the lesser of two evils. I hope you can too. Cuz the drive to vote for a democratic candidate cuz they are not as evil is what got us here in the first place.
  
  how’s that working out for you?
  sometimes being an adult means doing distasteful things… both candidates supported genocide… 1 of the candidates also wasn’t racist, economically literate, determined to exterminate the poor, and destroy what little democracy you had
  get the fuck over it… you have 2 bad choices and your lack of choice contributed to this
  
  Honestly at this point I consider those who peddle this narrative either bots or literally worse than those who are captured by the cult of MAGA — because they have "reasoned" that giving MAGA free reign makes them morally superior to those who voted for the Democrats. But I have to ask:
  Do you basically just... Not believe in harm reduction?
  Because the argument seems to hinge on the idea that you'd refuse to engage in behaviors that reduce TOTAL harm because there would still BE harm.
  I agree that none of us are truly free until we all are, but I fail to see how outright christofascism AND genocide are the preferable outcome for you here. How exactly does sending people to El Salvadorian work camps and secreting away protesters improve our foothold on this issue, exactly?
  If your idea is that, if gets bad enough, people will have enough anger to fuel your dreams of an uprising of some kind... At the end of the day you're STILL using human suffering as a bargaining chip while patting yourself on the back for being exactly the kind of non-resistance that MAGA relies on to gain power and momentum.
  Tl;Dr: I really fucking hope you're an account made for astroturfing and not a real person because "dogshit take" is too soft a descriptor for this line of thinking.
- No, I didn't vote for either. It was pretty easy to vote against Harris, while also voting against this. Maybe next time the Dems should run a candidate that at least pretends to care about what the voters want. That tends to help in elections.
  
  "Next time".
  Good luck with that. Chump.
  
  I would accept that in 2016. This time around you dipshits knew what the result of your apathy would be and did it anyway.
  
  Too young to vote huh?
  
  Maybe next time the Dems should run a candidate that at least pretends to care about what the voters want. That tends to help in elections.
  All of this I agree with. Unfortunately it won’t happen until all the neolibs are run out of the party.
  But trying to pretend like you didn’t directly elect a dictator by “abstaining” is not only absurd, but ethically reprehensible. Much of life is about choosing between lesser evils and lesser pains. Letting the worst options win because a perfect one doesn’t (and cannot) exist makes you a deliberate, willing accomplice.
- If you voted for Harris you voted for genocide. People who abstained did not.
  
  You bit hard into the propaganda campaign for this.
  You had two choices, bad or worse.
  You chose neither and allowed worse to win.
  Get down off your high horse, this does not make you morally superior, it makes you an idiot.
  
  If you didn't, then you got us genocide+™.
  
  Ah so you think you are innocent because you didn’t vote.
  No. That makes you complacent. You let Trump win by not voting which is the same as voting for Trump.
  People like you are why Trump is president.
  What a brain dead take. Not only do you STILL have genocide, you also have a president who is going to destroy this country. All because you couldn’t lift your lazy fat ass off the couch.
  
  You and those who took your route are virtue signaling morons. But at least you can look down your nose at the rest of us while our democracy crumbles and our rights are stripped away.
  
  If you pull the lever, the trolley will run over people.
  If you don’t pull the lever, it will run them over faster because its itinerary includes running over everyone else on the planet BUT as everyone is run over, one after another, you can show them your hands. They will marvel at how clean they are and you will say it’s because you had the courage to not touch the lever. Your unwavering sense of justice will inspire them and they will die happy, knowing they once spoke to such a hero.
  
  If you didn't vote for Harris, you accepted that allowing genocide and converting Gaza into a Trump resort was preferable to voting for slightly less genocide. The genocide has only gotten worse because Harris lost. Clownshow ethics.
  
  the genocide was also part of the tRump package, worse actually
  
  Harris stated multiple times that she wanted a cease fire and a two state solution. Polar opposite of Trumps “sweep them out and take over.”
  Every month from becoming the nominee until the election: cease fire, hostage release, two state solution.
  July: https://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/kamala-harris-says-two-state-solution-is-the-only-path-after-meeting-with-netanyahu-b2586161.html
  August: https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/politics/gaza-israel-harris-convention-speech/index.html
  September: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-harris-says-two-state-solution-end-of-israel-hamas-war-is-crucial
  October: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/harris-dodges-direct-question-on-palestinian-deaths-calls-for-2-state-solution-during-cnn-town-hall/3372480
  
  Looks like the genocide is going stronger than ever. Congratulations.

He continued: “You can’t treat religious people and religious institutions and religious speech as second-class in the United States… And when you have a program that’s open to all comers except religion… that seems like rank discrimination against religion.”
No, you stupid cunt. Religious institutions are special snowflakes that enjoy tax-exempt status and steal billions of dollars from this country by existing. Now you want to give them billions more on top of it. Fuck you Brett Kavanaugh you treasonous piece of shit.

I hope the Satanic temple will be opening a charter school in Oklahoma soon.
- Yeah, the idea isn't that church and state are matter/antimatter, but that the state shouldn't be used to direct people towards or away from any religion.
  If the government establishes fair criteria for "school eligible for federal funding" then there's no reason those schools must be secular or of any particular religion.
  Wait until some MAGAt groks that their tax dollars might go to a (((school))) or end up helping Muslims in some way.
  TBF, this regime doesn't actually support any form of real education.
- Honestly, they might save at least some of the youth doing it.
- It would be probably better than most of the other offerings in Oklahoma. Funnily enough, OKCPS had(has?) an illegal provision in its dress code that bans “satanic” imagery.

America really is falling through, huh? Might just be best to dissolve the union and leave behind the garbage.
- Conservatism is late stage cancer. You either lop it off or let it kill you
  
  Religion in general is a cancer on societal progress.
- It's accelerating very fast
  
  I think if we were sent a history book from the year 2200, we would see that history has determine the US was already effectively gone by this point. Most just don’t see it yet. What’s left for us to figure out is where we go from here. So far, I don’t like the chance it is a better country or world.

Religion is a belief. School curriculum is made based on facts and experiments over time. They should not be combined.
- Religion is made up fairytales that adults still believe in.
  Honesty a guy praying to Jebus is no different than a guy shooting hadoukens from his wrists.
  Yet one is called spiritual while the other is called childish.....

It’s funny that they clearly aren’t considering that religions other than theirs also exist. That’s the whole point of the Separation of Church and State. Your arbitrary religious views have no place in government or governance or public spaces… because others have other beliefs, many of which likely stand in stark contrast to yours, and the permutations are endless. Leaving your religious biases out of public life allows us all to coexist.
But lets ignore that and see what happens. Looking forward to The Satanic Temple having a presence in all public schools. Maybe muslims can get the Five Pillars and Buddhists can get the Noble Truths… and we’re just getting started.
- They're not ignoring it, they're fully aware, and it's the whole point. They want an official state religion to suppress all others. They've been perfectly willing and able to blatantly ignore facts, evidence, and existing law and jurisprudence to benefit one religion over all others.

“You can’t treat religious people and religious institutions and religious speech as second-class in the United States”
If you’re teaching spiritual things then you’re not a top-class program. Stick to facts.
- Facts are against their religion

Oh goody! We are one step closer to sharia law!
- This part is both mind blowing and hilarious. Not too long ago they were screeching that "they are trying to make everything sharia law!"
  Then they do this, with absolutely no sense of irony. The dumb runs so deep that its turning to magma.
  
  The same idiots cheering this on would gaslight me and try to tell me there is "no such thing as xtian Shariah Law" when I'd point out that the talibangelicals very much want xtian Shariah Law here and have been pushing for it for as long as I've been alive.
  I know better. Just because (of course) they don't call it Shariah Law doesn't mean it isn't the exact same fucking thing.
  The only reason they hate conservative Muslims so much is that game recognizes game, and let's face it, if you change up a bit of doctrine, Muslim extremists want almost the exact same things as xtian extremists, and the xtianists have FATWA ENVY like you would not believe. They are very pissed off that more of their flock are not murderous thugs, too.

Hellenism school: EVERYTHING IS GAY AND NOW LETS THINK AND PARTY
- Be gay
  Make art
  Do math
  
  Be gay do drugs hail Satan
  
  Stab Persians with really long sticks
- How far we've fallen.
  We kept the pedophilia and lost the fun bits. THANKS JESUS

Saint Luigi deliver us from these horrible "justices"

Letting Religion run things is how you get the dark ages again. They were called dark for a reason.
- They're called dark ages because there's not much record about it.
  
  Because only the church was allowed to write history.

How about we , the people, just don't fucking do what they say. Trump's an illegal president

Absolutely appalling. But I can always scream st my representatives louder. Though thats not working so guess what's next?
- Reach out faster than the speed of sound
- Revolt

Christofacisism

I wasnt going to have kids and the world keeps enforcing my decisions. If I had to deal with religion aimed at my kid I'd actually lose it 💀

They might as well wipe their ass with the constitution because they care fuck all about it.

As a European watching the news, sometimes I have to remind myself that lots of other countries also go to shit from time to time, it just doesn't get reported on as much. We get a massively disproportionate amount of reporting from the US as a result of how the English-speaking internet works.
In fact even writing this I just noticed the sidebar's description of the community I'm posting in, guess I should probably just block it (no offence).

I hope no one kills these people for their obvious crimes.
- My wife yells "purge night" a lot while watching the news.

Ain't no hate like christofacist love...

Idiocracy was right about the future, but it looks to be isolated to the US.
- you clearly didn’t see the results of the UK’s local elections today if you believe this.
  
  Don't worry. If Labour shifts even harder to the right the voters will come back.
  Right?

If they're going to allow religious schools get public funding then churches should pay into taxes.
Make it at least somewhat fair.

How long do you think it will take for Trump to declare himself as the head of the US religion, the same way Henry VIII did for the Church of England?
- Welp...
  Trump Posts AI-Generated Image of Himself Dressed as the Pope
  https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-pope-ai-image-1236385551/