The Supreme Court is taking the side of an extreme, declining minority of religious fundamentalists who want to use state power to preserve the centrality they once enjoyed in public society, argued Americans United for Separation of Church and State CEO Rachel Laser on MSNBC Friday.
This came after the court issued a ruling in 303 Creative v. Elenis, exempting a Colorado website designer from an anti-LGBTQ discrimination law that she hadn't even been accused of breaking in the first place.
"The court is on the other side of 80 percent of Americans that want gun safety, the kinds of things they struck down earlier in the year," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "65 to 70 percent of Americans think choice is a better way to exist as a country. Marriage equality, 71 percent of all Americans think that should be the law of the land. Clearly under assault. You go down the line. And the Supreme Court doesn't even represent the whole of the Republican Party ... the United States Supreme Court today is more extreme than the most extreme version of the Republican Party that's existed in my lifetime. They will give speeches. They will complain about attacks on their legitimacy. Their legitimacy's under attack because they stand with about 20 percent of all Americans."
"I think that's important to point out," agreed Laser. "We are amidst changing demographics in the country, right? There has been a 40 percent decline in one generation in America in white Christians, for example. I think the ultraconservative bloc of the Supreme Court is siding with these white Christian nationalists who are raging against the dying of their privilege. That absolutely explains some of what is happening right now."
In order to fight back, continued Laser, people need to vote in every single election, as well as "recommitting as a nation to keep church and state separate, because we are fighting white, Christian nationalism. The belief that america was made for white Christians and the antidote to that, the cure, is to keep church and state separate."
"It is not anti-religion. It is pro-everyone's religious freedom," added Laser. "What it protects is all of our right to live as ourselves, free from anyone else's religious doctrine and to believe as we choose. It protects freedom without favor and equality without exception. And it is one of those issues, church/state separation, that binds us all against all these ways we're being attacked and marginalized. So it is another issue to bring forward."
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