Clarence Thomas wants to end marriage equality. He has two different strategies to do it.

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In a separate opinion that received far less attention than Dobbs, Clarence Thomas laid out another way gut same-sex marriage: allowing government officials to refuse to recognize Americans' rights if they claim those rights conflict with their religion.

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Clarence Thomas wants to end marriage equality. He has two different strategies to do it.
He just made progress on both fronts.
12:30 PM · Jul 14, 2022

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/clarence-thomas-marriage-equality-dobbs-roe/

When the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion last month, Justice Clarence Thomas made clear that he wasn’t planning to stop there. In a concurring opinion, Thomas called on the high court to revoke the rights to marriage equality, intimate sexual relationships, and contraception, as well. The landmark rulings establishing these rights, Thomas wrote, are “demonstrably erroneous.”

Thomas’ argument, which none of his colleagues joined, set off alarm bells among legal scholars and advocates for LGBTQ and reproductive rights. But then—in a separate opinion three days later that received far less attention—he laid out an alternate route to gut same-sex marriage and other personal freedoms: allowing government officials to simply refuse to recognize Americans’ constitutional rights if they claim those rights conflict with their own religious values.

“It would drive a truck size hole” in the right to marry the person you love.
As the court has moved swiftly to enact its conservative agenda on everything from abortion to religion to guns to climate change, Thomas’ own reputation has shifted with it. Once considered the court’s outlier, he is now viewed as its right-wing trailblazer. Now firmly in the majority, he’s turning his arch-conservative worldview into the nation’s reality. If there’s anything this past term has taught us, it’s to take seriously the possibility that Thomas and his conservative colleagues will not hesitate to make radical changes to American life.

Thomas has laid out two paths to achieve his social agenda. One, as the public quickly took note of, is to boldly overturn the cases that recognized the constitutional right to same-sex marriage and struck down bans on sodomy and contraception. This would allow state legislatures to prohibit these things outright. Thomas’ other strategy is more subtle, but it, too, would erode some of the rights we take for granted today, particularly marriage equality. Importantly, Thomas is not making an either/or proposition here; it’s clear that he wants to pursue both paths.

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[ultralite001]

1. Ah, the disappointment...

My tiny screen only showed:

"Clarence Thomas wants to end marriage"...

Guess Ginni is safe for now...

That is alll...

[roamer65]

2. What a punchable face.

[Coventina]

3. Well, he's in for a nasty surprise! The White Nationalists he's enabling will say his marriage

is against THEIR religion!

[NickB79]

8. Thought the same thing immediately

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Yep

[Tickle]

4. He said this? nt

[Nevilledog]

5. In his opinions.

[Rstrstx]

6. I'm confused about the second option

It sounds like he’s endorsing what that lady in Kentucky(?) did, what was her name Kimberley Davis? If that’s the case couldn’t someone just go to another marriage clerk or priest? Or is it more far-reaching than that?

[RicROC]

7. Justice Uncle Thomas is like a cicada bug.

He's been buried for 30 years and all of a sudden he rises out of the dirt.

Maybe he has some medical condition and knows his tenure is short.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

14. Cicada bugs have more use than Coke Can Clarence

What specifically, I don't know. I can't think of uses for most bugs (ewww)... But even a cockroach is more useful than Coke Can Clarence.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. He wants to do to 1A what they did to 2A: cherry-pick parts of it.

[Eugene]

10. What if those religious beliefs say separate the races and ban interracial marriage?

Some interpret Christian teachings to keep the races pure.

[Sky Jewels]

11. I'd rather fight in a civil war

than let these six motherfuckers continue to destroy our Constitution and our country.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

13. How about we end your all-too-long stay on the Court, Coke Can Clarence?

Another disgusting piece of shit passing as a human being who sought power solely to inflict pain and misery upon others. A fucking thug who would be far happier if we could send him back to 1930's Germany or 1970's Cambodia. And yet we are stuck with this sneering, evil, corrupt, fascist, bigoted walking piece of scum until he dies, retires or gets his ass impeached.

Fuck Coke Can Clarence. He can take his strategies to codify bigotry and shove them into a Coke can, which he can then shove up his ass.

I notice he's smirking in that picture. Must've been right after he helped destroy Roe or did something else evil. The man has no heart or soul, and like Drumpf, only "smiles" when he's hurting others.

The only thing needing "revoked" is your stay on the court, Chester the Molester.