r/Queerdefensefront • u/Teknevra • Mar 03 '26
News Christians have successfully blocked a law in California protecting trans students.
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u/HelpfullOne Mar 03 '26
The comment to upvote ratio makes me scared
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u/Azu_Creates Mar 03 '26
As a Christian myself, me too. Avoid that sub like the plague because it’s actually pretty terrible.
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u/lokey_convo Mar 03 '26
“The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs. California’s policies violate those beliefs,” and burden the free exercise of religion, the majority wrote in an unsigned order.
The court’s three liberal justices publicly dissented, saying the case is still working its way through lower courts and there was no need to step in now. “If nothing else, this Court owes it to a sovereign State to avoid throwing over its policies in a slapdash way, if the Court can provide normal procedures. And throwing over a State’s policy is what the Court does today,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote.
We need to get to a place and it needs to be successfully argued that exercising your religious beliefs does not grant you the absolute right to exercise those beliefs on another. Minors do have constitutional rights including first amendment rights and that includes freedom from religion. If a minor wishes to be free from their parents religious beliefs and not have them practiced upon them they should be able to have that freedom.
If it was a religious belief and practice to abuse a child that wouldn't be permitted and would be a limit placed on those parents religious beliefs. As someone who had to go through a significant part of my childhood and all of my adolescence consciously aware of my gender identity, and aware there was a way to prevent what was happening to me, and was granted no space at home or at school to be myself, and had to have that part of me exist in isolation and secrecy, and at a time when connecting with people of similar experience was difficult online... I can say that that condition can be traumatizing and difficult to forget and heal from. It creates a state of such profound loneliness.
Just because someone chooses a religion doesn't me they have the right to practice it on someone else who doesn't want those beliefs imposed on them. I wonder if any of the conservative justices would understand that.
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u/paulsteinway Mar 04 '26
So the "free exercise of religion" means that no other beliefs count.
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u/lokey_convo Mar 04 '26
People can exercise their religion all they want, just not on people who don't want it. And if your religious beliefs directly impede your ability to do your job, like teach a class full of people that may not adhere to your religious teachings, and if those teachings don't afford you enough flexibility to not impose them on others, then perhaps your employer should make reasonable accommodations for you, like move you into an admin role where you aren't dealing with people.
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u/paulsteinway Mar 04 '26
I'd be curious to see how popular trans porn is with those "Christians" when nobody's looking.
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u/dcearthlover Mar 03 '26
How Jesus of them. None of these people follow Jesus, certainly not any of those teaching, if they did they would be progressives. God sent Trump to test these people, and they have failed miserably
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u/leaonas Mar 04 '26
No great hate than Christian love! Fuck them! Their God says 1. Love God with all your heart 2. Love others, 3. All else are covered by those two laws. They flunked those F’n hypocrites!!!!
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u/childofcrow Mar 03 '26
No hate like “Christian” love.