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  • Lords of Chaos on the Supreme Court

    It seems the Supreme Court Justices are lords of chaos.  Leaking the Supreme Court decision on Roe v Wade was like waving a red cape in front of a bull, or a MAGA cap in front of a progressive.  It has brought out the worst in progressives and put anything good we might have done on hold.  Of course, this follows the sudden and meaningless war in Ukraine.  This has been a disaster for the progressive conversation.

    The Roe v Wade leak is not just about abortion, just like the Ukraine War is not just about Ukraine.  They both serve to drag your attention away from climate change, voting rights, and anything else that needs your attention.  The lords of chaos want to stop you from having a coherent conversation.

    I saw a clip today in which pro-life agitators goaded pro-choice protesters into a frenzy.  How they relished taunting those women.  How they loved rubbing it in!  How they basked in their Supreme Court ‘victory’.  Then the pro-choice protesters screamed their slogans a little louder, and the pro-lifers drowned them out anyway.  What a glorious hate-fest!  And all because the lords of chaos on the Court leaked an opinion that hasn’t been decided yet.

    Sewing chaos and division has been the establishment’s favorite tactic since that first Trump rally was shut down by Sanders’s supporters in 2016.  They try to get both sides all riled up, or afraid, or confused, or all of the above. They know if they can make us fear and hate each other, we will be ineffective.

    The lords of chaos on the Supreme Court may very well undo Roe v Wade, and the harm for women will be real.  But if the leak brings lasting hatred and confusion and division, it will have served its main purpose.  As long as we’re fighting each other, we can’t fight them.

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  • Why Should I Care About Same-Sex Marriage?

    I’ve been wondering if the determination to control the message might explain the White House guest list for the Pope’s reception. ((Vatican pushes back over White House invite to Catholic Dissidents, Catholic New Agency, September 18, 2015. Available: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-pushes-back-over-white-house-invite-to-catholic-dissidents-51001/))

    I say this because I’m getting tired of the same-sex marriage issue taking over the conversation.  In fact, I’m tired of the LGBT issue, period.  I ended up writing this blog because of Wikipedia’s misogyny–women’s rights were my focus and with good reason–but instead of making headway on this problem women have been blindsided with legislation limiting reproductive rights, while in the same period the same-sex marriage initiative has been a great success.

    It’s not hard to make the case that fighting misogyny is more important to our society than same-sex marriage.  Half the U.S. population of 319 million is female while Americans identifying as gay or lesbian make up only 1.6 percent of the population, and those who consider themselves bisexual represent only .7 percent. Yet the LGBT issue vaults ahead, both in the media and in the courts.

    Many thought it was surprising that the Supreme Court approved this measure, but considering the character of these justices this should have made us suspicious about the potential uses of this issue.  What has happened here, besides the drowning out of women’s issues in the media, is that women have finally been made irrelevant.  Now men can marry and adopt children, while single women continue to lose their babies to adoption.  

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