Texas Gov. Abbott has no idea what "religious liberty" is. Religious liberty is not being tied to a stake and being burned because your dogma differs from the man with the torch. Religious liberty is being able to choose which god you think will destroy the world if you allow other people to choose their own mores, customs and rituals. Religious liberty is NOT persecuting those others due to your own fears. Religious liberties are NOT something you practice yourself but deny to others. Religious liberties are not trumped by civil rights that are granted by the Constitution of the United States and are duly interpreted by (presently) nine appointed Justices that are confirmed by the elected Congress of the United States.
Gov. Greg Abbott is a Twit among other more legalese defined criminal types, for example Sedition-ist. He has come out openly to say that he will order other Americans to defy the Federal government and the Constitution.
The echo machine is already trying to besmirch the Supreme Court by labeling them "Imperialist".
Right-wing Conservatives liken their distaste for same-sex marriage to such things as the Holocaust, the reign of Joseph Stalin, and Hitler. They love playing the victim. They think that if they are flailing someone with a stick and that person strikes back it is an attack of their faith. For the government to tall them that beating people with stick is not allowed, THAT is an attack on their religious liberties since they have been beating people with sticks for centuries.
Now today when the Supreme Court says that no state in the Union may abridge the rights of any two adults to be married and benefit from all the rights and responsibilities that any two other adults may
enjoy, THAT is an attack on their traditional hatreds of people who don't believe as they do. Marriage has always been a duality in Western civilization. There is a religious and spiritual facet and there is a legal facet.
The legal facets of marriage confer rights of inheritance, parental rights, property rights, surviving spouse Social Security rights, pension rights, and health insurance and life insurance beneficiary rights. These are all the rights that Gov. Abbott would deny to the at least one-half of every same-sex marriage couple. Now THAT would be denying equal protection under the law.
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