It's time to discuss religion, because it's no longer knocking on our door: Sam Alito just sent it into the house with a no-knock warrant and stun grenades that threaten to catch the place on fire. Democrats are generally disinclined to discuss religion, much less debate it.

They like to point out that Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin were famously atheist, Jefferson and dozens of other high-profile people in the Founding generation were deists (a close cousin to atheists and certainly not Christians), and that in two different places the Constitution explicitly rejects religion interfering with government or vice-versa.

But it's time to discuss religion whether we like it or not, because it's no longer knocking on our door: Sam Alito just sent it into the house with a no-knock warrant and stun grenades that threaten to catch the place on fire.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Abortion: Why is the Court Using Religious Belief to Alter what Should be Secular Law?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "zygote" by Embryology.

Article: "Body Autonomy Is Protected By The Constitution" by Elle Beau.

Article: "Year of passage of first anti-abortion law".

Article: "When the 'Biblical View' for Evangelicals Was That Life Begins at Birth" by Jonathan Dudley.

Case: "Burwell v. Hobby Lobby".

Article: "The Supreme Court Broke Its Own Rules to Radically Redefine Religious Liberty" by Mark Joseph Stern.

Case: "Tandon v Newsom".

Article: "Not a Masterpiece: The Supreme Court's Decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission" by Erwin Chemerinsky.

Article: "Contraception and Abortion" by Christianity Today.

Case: "Skinner v. State Of Oklahoma".

Article: "The beginning of human life" by Joseph G. Schenker.

Article: "Hungary Adopts Child Sex Abuse Law That Also Targets L.G.B.T. Community" by Benjamin Novak.

Case: "Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo".

Article: "The Supreme Court's religion-driven mission sets off a firestorm" by Jennifer Rubin.

Article: "Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows" by Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward.

Bible: "Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." - "Genesis 2:7".

Case: "Roe v Wade".

Article: "Quickening" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Periods for Pence' campaign goes viral, urges women to call Gov. Pence's office and discuss their menstrual cycles".

Article: "Cinco de Mayo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Poll: Half of voters support maintaining Roe v. Wade" by Steven Shepard.

Article: "Supreme Court says Boston should have allowed Christian flag on city property" by Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Satanic Temple Asks Boston To Fly Flag After Court Ruling" by Philip Marcelo.

Article: "Satanists want statue next to 10 Commandments" by Daniel Burke.

Article: "Mitt Romney Begrudgingly Admits the Trump Train Can't Be Stopped in 2024: 'Very Likely' He'll Be the Nominee" by Joe DePaolo.

Article: "'DeSantis sent the Gestapo': Fired Florida Covid data scientist films home being raided by police" by Graeme Massie.

Article: "Sharia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Remembering Samuel Alito's Infamous SOTU "Not True"" by The Black Sphere.

Article: "Killing of Patrick Lyoya", 2022 by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Jewish law really says about abortion" by Ephraim Sherman.

Article: "Trump's Racist "Rigged Election" Attack Is as Old as America" by Harvey Wasserman, Bob Fitrakis.

Article: "Federal Reserve lifts interest rates by 0.5 percent in bid to slow inflation" by Rob Wile.

Article: "Paul Krugman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Robert Reich" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin Have Reportedly Secured Billions from Saudi Government" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "1967 Oil Embargo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iranian Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "1979 oil crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Everything is halted': Shanghai shutdowns are worsening shortages" by Abha Bhattarai.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia.

Site: World Trade Organization (WTO).

Article: "Paul Volcker's battle against inflation pushed interest rates up to 20%" by Amy Scott.

Article: "Here's what experts say is causing the United States' recent spike in violence" by Josh Meyers.

Book: "The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger" by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.

Book: The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity, and Improve Everyone's Well-Being by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.

Article: "Why Inequality Matters" by My Fair London in association with The Equality Trust.

Site: "The Equality Trust".

Article: "Wheat Can't Catch a Break Right Now" by Robinson Meyer.

Article: "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Might Challenge SCOTUS Ruling Requiring States To Educate All Children" by Murjani Rawls.

Article: "Religious Women Have the Most Abortions" by Amee Vanderpool.

Article: "Jerry Falwell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Evangelicalism" (evangelical Protestantism) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hippocratic Oath" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alabama gubernatorial election, 2022" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Go Back to Health Class: Anti-abortion laws are written by people with little knowledge of the reproductive process" by Susan Milligan.

Article: "Girls Menstruating Earlier" by WebMD.

Article: "What drives earlier menstruation in girls?" by Cameron Scott.

Article: "Supreme Court chief justice directs marshal to investigate leak, calls out 'egregious breach of ... trust'" by Ronn Blitzer.

Site: The Brigid Alliance.

Article: "Abortion Care Fund" by Planned Parenthood South Texas.

Article: "Foster kids starved, beaten and molested, reports show. Few caregivers are punished." by Suzanne Hirt, Michael Braga, Pat Beall.

Hour Three: 'Pure propaganda': inside Starbucks' anti-union tactics
- Will Westlake, Barista / Member National Organizing Committee - Starbucks Workers United in Buffalo, NY
- Maggie Carter, Barista & organizer in Knoxville, TN

Article: "'Pure propaganda': inside Starbucks' anti-union tactics" by Nick Bowlin.

Article: "Starbucks workers at Buffalo store vote to unionize" by Chris Isidore.

Article: "Starbucks fires Memphis workers seeking unionization" by Shawna Chen.

Article: "Buffalo Starbucks employees strike over new benefits not being extended to unionized stores" by WROC-TV.

Article: "'I'm really excited': Union certified for Knoxville Starbucks after vote was challenged" by Silas Sloan.

Article: "Union Busting Firm and Starbucks Unite To Fight Union Push" by Our Generation.

Article: "Map: Where Are Starbucks Workers Unionizing?" by More Perfect Union.

Article: "Bush V. Gore Isn't Precedent, But It Keeps Getting Cited" by Ian MacDougall.

Article: "U.S. Officials Warn of New Nightmare as Putin Hits Peak Desperation" by Shannon Vavra, Scott Bixby.

Article: "Ukraine war: US wants to see a weakened Russia" by Matt Murphy.

Article: "Lloyd Austin: In Terms Of Military Capability, Russia Is Weaker After Ukraine War Than When They Started" by Tim Hains.

Article: "Biden admin pushes back on NYT's killer Ukraine story" by Alexander Ward And Quint Forgey.

Documentary: Suffer The Children - a film by Trevor Glass.

Article: "Infertility" by WHO.

TV: "Bewitched".

Article: "Putin to undergo cancer surgery, transfer power to ex-FSB chief: report" by Snejana Farberov and Evan Simko-Bednarski.

Article: "Official & big: Putin humiliated the director of the SVR, placed 2 FSB generals under house arrest" by Yorkie Mom.

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