Published by Slate earlier today. Have received hate mail from transphobes and homophobes. Clearly, I’m doing something right. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/supreme-court-rules-constitutional-right-theocracy.html
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@heidilifeldman This is such a headache for schools that what they'll end up doing is sending home a syllabus of what's going to be taught & when. Then if parents want to opt their child out that day - fine no education for that kid, that day.
What will be tricky is how to write tests & assignments that can't assume a student has done any given part of the work.
@heidilifeldman Well done! 👍👍👍 Obviously Sam Alito & his Confederalist Society accomplices were all too willing to ride along Mahmoud's & the other plaintiffs' mentored intolerant revisionist point of attack.
Interesting in this fundamentalist dispute about humanism, tolerance v. intolerance, although the case does not only involve Muslim but also (presumably) Christian plaintiffs:
"...
There’s a long history of gender nonconformity, queer love, and diverse gender expression in the Islamic world. In fact, for much of Islamic history, there was a great deal of tolerance for diverse expressions of gender and homoeroticism.
..."
https://religiondispatches.org/muslims-joining-anti-trans-protests-might-be-surprised-by-the-history-of-lgbtq-acceptance-in-islam/
#LGBTQ#HumanRights#IndiscriminatelyHuman#ToleranceVIntolerance#LeosSCOTUSSix#Illiberalism#Intolerance#Revisionism#Reactionism#Revanchism#MahmoudVTaylor
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Thank you for writing it, and for pointing out that the conservative #scotus majority has really taken off the mask, showing its anti-pluralistic anti-democratic agenda.
Trying to achieve epistemic lock-in by blocking exposure to outside ideas is the behavior of a cult.
#uspol
@heidilifeldman They’re “free” to get the hell out.
@heidilifeldman Planning to launch lawsuits demanding the same exemptions & privileges when schools show people eating meat or not eating meat, using machines of any kind, working on the weekend (Friday, Saturday, or Sunday), having children in any way, receiving blood transfusions, using the word "God" in any capacity, or discussing insecticides, pest control, or using mouse traps, insect baits, or flypaper in any circumstances.
@heidilifeldman i absolutely HATE AND LOATHE that sociopath Alito
@heidilifeldman There was apparently a student in my tenth-grade biology class who belonged to a Christian sect that truly and sincerely believed that men have one less rib than women, because Eve was made from Adam's rib. The teacher went into this long laborious explanation in which he noted that the father of another student was a combat veteran who had lost a leg, but that the student herself had two legs, because, see, acquired traits are not inherited, and the same goes for Adam and the rib, so it's ok to believe that men and women have the same number of ribs and still believe that God took one of Adam's to make Eve out of. Post-Mahmoud, I gather that any biology teacher who's going to say that men have 12 ribs needs to provide advance notice so parents who believe otherwise can protect their precious babies from hearing such blasphemy.
@heidilifeldman Clearly! You have great enemies!
@heidilifeldman @mattblaze
It seems like there are at least two strategies to fight back:
1. Object that multiplication tables violate your religion. Force the courts to accept that nonsense, or directly admit they are favoring one group.
It seems like there are at least two strategies to fight back:
1. Object that multiplication tables violate your religion. Force the courts to accept that nonsense, or directly admit they are favoring one group.
2. Just make blanket disclosures. "Every day this month we will be discussing families in school, some of which may include same-sex relationships. These discussions will happen throughout the day. The opt-out area is in the gym, where the janitor will supervise quiet reading." Repeat next month.
Are either of those not-stupid?
@heidilifeldman @mattblaze
Why do we live in the world’s worst timeline?
This shit is crazier than hitchhikers guide the galaxy
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