The culture
warriors had better gird themselves, for we appear to be entering an era much
like the 1960s to the 1970s when the federal courts overturned sensible
Christian State and local laws for the sake of radical, diabolical social
agendas – laws that banned abortion, laws that allowed Christian prayer and
Bible reading in public schools.
The State
laws threatened now are those protecting minors from drag shows, and from
permanently mutilating, gender-changing surgeries and hormones. Several States have passed them into law, but
now the federal courts are swooping in to veto them.
Tennessee’s
law outlawing ‘adult cabaret performances’ in the presence of children has been
struck down by a federal district judge because
it violates the precious 1st amendment rights to freedom of speech/expression
of the upstanding drag queen citizens.
Arkansas and
Florida have had their laws banning trans surgeries and hormones for minors
overturned by federal courts, claiming
violations of the Equal Protection clause and the Due Process clause of the 14th
amendment.
The legal
reasoning is dubious, of course.
First, the
Bill of Rights of the federal constitution was
not applied to the States via the 14th amendment (the supposed incorporation
doctrine), making the Tennessee ruling a farce.
Second,
banning the self-chosen harm of children in this instance (trans surgeries and
drugs) does not violate their equal protection under the law any more than banning
their use of harmful drugs or drinking of alcohol or their being able to
terminate their young lives via assisted suicide.
Third, the
Due Process claim – that parents have the right to raise their children as they
deem fit, even if that includes allowing them to change their sex – is
selective, for it isn’t upheld in other instances by liberals/leftists, such as
allowing parents a choice in where their
children can be educated, or in the instance of requiring parents to be
notified before a minor
child could have an abortion.
All of these
rulings and their reasonings open the door to some frightening
developments: the first, to allowing
adults to have sexual relationships with minors; second, to expanding the
‘rights’ of children to engage in harmful activities, even the taking of their
own lives (as is being proposed in Canada
and which is legal in the
Netherlands and Belgium);
the third would limit a State’s ability to restrict harmful behavior using the insincere
pretext of ‘parental rights’.
Now is a
crucial time for the States passing these good and necessary laws. When Engel v Vitale, Abington v
Schempp, Roe v Wade, and the rest began to be handed down by the
federal Supreme Court, there should have been an absolute uproar from families,
churches, counties, States, etc. Regular
business should have ground to a quick halt by rightly incensed citizens, and
protests should have been undertaken until the rulings were cancelled by one
means or another . . .
The rest is
at https://thehayride.com/2023/06/garlington-get-ready-for-roe-redux/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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