{"id":13156,"date":"2014-07-03T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13156"},"modified":"2014-07-03T00:05:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:05:53","slug":"hobby-lobby-and-sharia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/03\/hobby-lobby-and-sharia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby Lobby and Sharia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Injustice Alito, aka Scalito, promised that Hobby Lobby<\/em> is a very narrow ruling that applies only to that one situation.  I think he is lying and in comments I made yesterday, here and elsewhere, I questioned the Republican Reich\u2019s Reaction when a closely held company, owned by Muslims, refuses benefits to Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian employees, because of the owners had a sincere belief in Sharia.  Great minds fall in the same ditch, because I\u2019m not the only one, who thought of it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0703hobby\"…The Roberts and Scalia court is operating under an assumption that Christianity is the United States’ semi-official religion and that it should be legislated and protected in a way that other faiths are not<\/a>. This is, of course, a misreading of the Constitution–despite what the deranged members of the Fox News Christian Evangelical Dominionist American public would like to believe.<\/p>\n

Unintended consequences may lay bare the hypocrisy of the Right-wing and its agents on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

How would conservatives and their agents respond if a company with Islamic beliefs (however defined) decided to impose its religious values on white, Christian, American employees<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Sharia hysteria would spread in such a way as to make the present day-to-day Islamophobia of the Right-wing echo chamber appear benign and muted by comparison<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What if a Black cultural nationalist organization such as the Nation of Islam or the Black Israelites claimed that they possessed a "religious freedom" to actively discriminate against white people in the workplace or elsewhere?<\/p>\n

The White Right would explode with claims of "reverse discrimination" and "black racism".<\/p>\n

The end game of the Supreme Courts’ surrender to the theocrats and religious plutocrats could be the complete dismantlement of the liberal consensus politics of the post World War 2 era.<\/p>\n

Consider the following questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is there a "religious freedom" to practice housing discrimination if you are a member of a white supremacist "Christian" organization that leases or sells property? Does "religious freedom" for corporate entities trump anti-discrimination laws governing gender, sexuality, disability status, or race?<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Photo credit: dosomething.org<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

This is a small segment taken from the middle of a an extensive article.  I urge you to click through for a most interesting read.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow illustrated this point well in two segments. In the first, she and Dahlia Lithwick explain why this makes no sense as a narrow ruling.<\/font><\/p>\n