The Appeal to Heaven flag isn't just tied to Jan 6.
It's a Christian nationalist symbol.
Christian nationalists believe that the law of the land is not the Constitution, but instead the law of God as they interpret it.
Do you see the problem with Alito flying this flag?
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That's a fair old mangling of history. A considerable, if not a majority, of the population was Catholic still, see the reign of Mary. The Civil War was not a religious war but about authority bound to religious traditions.
The Civil War, the Commonwealth and the Restoration did away with the Divine Right of Kings and instituted the constitutional monarchy long before the War of Independence.
The 13 States was a continuation of 1381 & the Commonwealth.
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This 2020 piece talks about how JFK overcame some Protestants' anti-Catholic fears that he would follow the Pope & that helped him win election in 1960, but afterwards conservatives, Protestant & Catholic, joined forces against liberalism.
"The conservative boogeyman proved malleable; it was Catholics in 1960 but Muslims a generation later, each apparition conjured by a zeitgeist of anti-liberalism & Christian nationalism."
The Talibangelicals are certainly no better. I find all organized religions a curse on civilization itself, from the Zionists to the Islamic jihadists to the Xians of every stripe. I have especial vitriol for the Catholics because they are very vocal against women's medical care and women's rights in general and meddle directly in US politics. Reagan even gave 1000 old men at the Vatican an embassy, as if they were a country! About the only religion I tolerate is Buddhism.
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There’s no problem! As an originalist, his job is the interpret Bib…ah…Constitution according to the writer’s intent.
The Consti…Bible never mentions the word “abortion”.
The Bible precedes the Constitution, which then must surely be derived from the Bible.
Ipso facto, we don’t talk about abortion, no, no, no.
@rbreich That this, like every other completely unacceptable thing in US politics in the last 60 years will amount to nothing?
The fascists own Congress, SCOTUS, most of the state governments and a majority of the school boards.
We're 6 months from the end of America.
Judges should not ventilate political nor private opinions per definition.
@rbreich Or the Speaker of the House, who apparently flies it outside his office...
https://newrepublic.com/post/176861/mike-johnson-flying-christian-nationalist-flag-outside-office
@rbreich Folks, remember that after every movement of non-conforming to any system. There are counter movements. True, in going from conforming movements, there are non-conforming ones.
The Constitution was the means of government to prevent these movements from causing insurrection and strive. It's better to talk obligingly than to just obliged blindly. Are we a thinking culture?
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