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Alabama Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist's Show (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism.

Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker, who wrote the concurring opinion in last week’s explosive Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos have the same rights as living children, recently appeared on a show hosted by self-anointed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist.

Parker was the featured guest on “Someone You Should Know,” hosted by Johnny Enlow, a Christian nationalist influencer and devoted supporter of former President Donald Trump. Over the course of an 11-minute interview, Parker articulated a theocratic worldview at odds with a functioning, pluralistic society.

“God created government,” he told Enlow, adding that it’s “heartbreaking” that “we have let it go into the possession of others.”

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 6 months ago (13 children)

Hear me out.

Buy a massive freezer.
Adopt every single frozen embryo you can. There should be a bunch available in Alabama.
Move to Alabama.
Claim every single one for tax credit.
Bankrupt the state government.

If that doesn't work, keep going.

Register every fetus that's been frozen for at least 18 years to vote. They can't speak for themselves, so someone has to.
Elect sane people to office.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Kamoulox

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If they are children in Alabama then why aren't they working in a coal mine or slaughter house ?

Q.E.D.

and get jobs you lazy hippy fetuses

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because there's no coal in Alabama. You're thinking West Virginia. It's cotton fields in AL!

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If embryos are children, then every month a woman doesn't fertilize an embryo from puberty to menopause, she's killing a child.

I mean, that's correct, right? That's what this Judge is claiming. I say we roll with that narrative. Any unpregnant woman is killing a baby. LOCK HER UP! But of course the state will have to impregnate the jailed women. Otherwise they'll be an accessory to even more murders every month, so all women in prison will also need to be pregnant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Embryos are the stage of development after fertilization.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You need to go back to HS biology. An unfertilized egg is exactly that an egg.

You need both an egg and sperm to make an embryo.

Menstruation happens BECAUSE there isn’t an embryo.

I don’t agree with the ruling any more than the next guy but this take is just dumb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Comments like the one above, and upvotes on those comments, are shocking common in threads about this ruling. I wonder how many people in America don’t remember their grade school biology, or didn’t get taught this.

I also wonder how much this is playing into America’s abortion laws. If people don’t understand the grade school biology, how can they possibly make an informed decision at the ballot box?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Agreed. There's plenty to be upset about without also inventing things the way conservatives often do.

And getting things wrong just gives them the opportunity to dismiss everything you say based upon a single flaw they can latch upon: "Oh, clearly you haven't done enough research into the topic to be taken seriously."

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

WTAF is a theocrat like this even doing in our government in the first place? He apparently cannot separate his little book club's narratives from his role in a secular government and now we learn he is a conspiracy theorist?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is that a Y'all-Quaeda branch?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

7 Mountains Dominionism is literally Sharia law but Christianity instead of Islam.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

It is funny how similar they are. Only the name is different

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Just being extremely generous and assuming for the sake of argument that every crime that Trump has been proven to have committed was somehow a conspiratorial hit job perpetrated by some massive shadowy leftist cabal. I'll never understand how the "grab em by the pussy" guy is the Christian choice. How the guy who cultivated the image of ruthless businessman, and who fired people for the sake of entertainment is the Christian choice. The man who famously cited second Corinthians as "two Corinthians" to a room full of evangelical Christians is the Christian choice. How the guy who insults people so regularly and often that there is a whole wikipedia article dedicated to it is the Christian choice. And finally, how the Wharton grad, billionaire New York real estate tycoon somehow doesn't represent the "coastal elite" which is supposedly the enemy he is fighting against to restore "true Christian values".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'll never understand how Christianity has become ingrained with right wing politics. Modern day conservative churches are at odds with everything that Christ taught and stood for.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

They're just showing what wins when their politics conflict with their religion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Christian nationalism

You really have these things upside down in the New World.

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