I've long thought "pro-life" was virtue-signaling, long before the phrase existed. This is a fantastic explanation of why. If unborn babies are the only group you strongly feel the government should protect, that should be a red flag. (And it sure seems like this describes the majority of pro-lifers I've known).
Along with the fact that until about 1975-1980 evangelicals were like everyone else in accepting (as a lesser evil) the need for abortion in some circumstances. WTF is their memory so awful that they cannot remember that this is a relatively new political stance in the USA? Moral Majority my ass, it was all just a way to solidify their base on messaging and make money.
In the Old Testament, property was more important than abortion. It was even prescribed to use an abortifacient to induce a miscarriage if you suspected your wife had been sleeping around on you. (If you hadn't had sex with her and she has a miscarriage, she's put to death; otherwise, it's like, "Okay, guess she was faithful -- sorry honey.") Numbers 5:11-28.
[hilariously I just found a high-falutin' exegesis justifying that even if it is exactly what it seems to be, babies died all the time in the OT because of their parents' sins so it's just routine with God -- e.g., Bathsheba's baby, dying because of David's sin -- and in this case it is still the woman's fault for lying about the pregnancy, rather than the priest or husband being at fault for the unborn child's death. Like, wow...]
John Roberts and Mitch McConnell complaining about the leak being a betrayal is kind of funny.
"Damn whistleblowers! How dare someone break their sacred vow to permit perfidy to fester in the darkness of ignorance and tell everyone ahead of time, rather than blame the judges for lying under oath about their actual beliefs!"
I mean, frankly, no one should be surprised. Of course they were all lying. Otherwise they knew they wouldn't get on the Court. Everyone except for Susan Collins knew this, apparently, and so now here we are.
It's not an impartial court, and I'm not learned enough to know how far back I'd have to go to find one that wasn't crooked in some way. Although I do think obviously that there was a time when you could get nominees approved by a majority of both parties and the process wasn't so partisan. We shouldn't be surprised that the nominees are tainted if we can't even get them onto the court aside from a squeaker and they are obviously being opaque during their confirmation process.
Fuck McConnell too. No matter which way you look at things, he stole a seat (either Gorsuch or Barrett) and is directly responsible for what is happening. It would be nice to believe a god figure would right these wrongs at least in eternity but... nope.