Seth Abramson

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(📢) A new report on Ginni Thomas should be published at PROOF tonight. Stay tuned and subscribe below if you wish. This will be the third major report on Ginni Thomas at PROOF. https://t.co/npT4m0nrVU — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve spent over 15 years as a teacher. I can’t *imagine* putting my students in a position in which they felt compelled to practice my religion. The Court’s decision today is a slap in the face of every American who has acted in loco parentis for children and done so responsibly. — PolitiTweet.org

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In its decision today—the Kennedy case—the Supreme Court took the part of one of the most arrogant, entitled, spiteful Evangelicals in the United States, a man who in my opinion is the poster-child for not giving a *damn* about (a) children, or (b) the religious rights of others. — PolitiTweet.org

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I of course have no issue at all with the many Christian Evangelicals who practice their faith with the same generosity, modesty, and humility the rest of us practice ours. But there’s a subset of Evangelical practice that’s arrogant, entitled, and spiteful toward the rest of us. — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course it hardly matters either way—as the abuse of religious practice in government spaces will 99.9% of the time come from Christian Evangelicals, who deem themselves members of America’s Only Religion, and the Court knows it and indeed is counting on it in sinister fashion. — PolitiTweet.org

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And the Court will find a way to distinguish the case. There’ll *always* be a fact in the fact-pattern that the five christofascists on the Court today can use to deny *everyone* but Evangelical Christians the new counter-constitutional rights they just discovered for Christians. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fortunately, non-Evangelicals don’t have that sort of gall. So this will almost never happen. But it *will* happen somewhere. Fox News will cover it wall-to-wall as an outrage. Evangelicals will lose their minds. There’ll be death threats. The teacher will be fired and file suit. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pastafarians, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, pagans—Evangelicals have opened the door to their kids feeling compelled to pray (or even speak publicly against prayer) with all of them because their folks don’t get that separation of church and state *protects church from state*. — PolitiTweet.org

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Muslim prayer mats, Jewish tefillin, Wiccan pentagrams, every imaginable incense and icon from the major Eastern religions—these will come to litter the classrooms of Evangelical children whose parents are *babies* who can’t comprehend the long-term consequences of their actions. — PolitiTweet.org

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Somewhere a public school teacher will start praying audibly in class every day at a selected hour. The prayer will be a Satanic prayer to the Prince of Darkness. Evangelical Christian students will join in, feeling compelled. Their parents will howl. But THEY MADE IT HAPPEN. — PolitiTweet.org

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Somewhere in America, a public school teacher will start praying audibly in class every day at a selected hour. The prayer will be a pagan prayer to Odin and Thor. Evangelical Christian students will join in, feeling compelled. Their parents will howl. But THEY MADE IT HAPPEN. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) I’m assuming this is about either Mo Brooks or Ginni Thomas but I honestly don’t know. — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING NEWS: House January 6 Committee to Hold Surprise Hearing at 1PM Tomorrow; Topic Unknown But Some Anticipate Bombshell; This Feed Will Live-Tweet the Hearing Beginning at Noon Tuesday https://t.co/v7MpmOucBM — PolitiTweet.org

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@christianvela I candidly do not believe you when you say you have "heard this case," given that you are claiming this man randomly chose a "point" during this 40 hour/week job to pray "on his own." Your summary of the facts of this well-known case is absolutely ludicrous and feels fraudulent. — PolitiTweet.org

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@christianvela Incorrect. He sought to pray at the 50-yard line of an active government event, in front of a crowd, while acting in loco parentis for his players, who of *course* felt compelled to join—and did en masse. He was fired after refusing *every* accommodation. You misstate the facts. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: If you know this case, you know this decision is an abomination. This is a government employee demanding to pray audibly… — PolitiTweet.org

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@duckydumperson ? https://t.co/sWnIXBSPyW — PolitiTweet.org

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PS8/ And since this Evangelical coach—who decides which of his charges start and which ride the bench—*claims* there’s no coercion behind his praying and his students needn’t join him, the Satan-worshipers at the 50-yard line with him should try to *actively recruit* his players. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS7/ In a just world, every Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist, Wiccan, and Satan-worshipper (et. al.) who lives within 100 miles of the public high school this Evangelical coach prays at would join him at the 50-yard line weekly to say their own prayers at volume. Why shouldn’t they? — PolitiTweet.org

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PS6/ And that’s the point: we won’t *see* folks who aren’t Christians having the unmitigated gall of this Evangelical coach, because this country wouldn’t allow a Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, or Taoist to do what this christofascist court happily and willy-nilly lets all Christians do. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS5/ Of course the court *knows* it’ll never have to deal with this situation because a high school probably wouldn’t hire a Satanist for a football coach and few *non-Christians* would be willing to face the likely violence of doing what this Christian so *confidently* could do. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS4/ I hope *every Satanic temple in America* starts insisting on their “right” to pray audibly at the 50-yard line before and after public high school football games so we can all see clearly—when they are removed and sue—that this Court will *not* uphold their “right” to do so. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS3/ I’ve recently used the term “christofascist” here because that’s exactly what this Supreme Court majority is—lawyers pretending to be judges when they’re in fact religious zealots who want the whole country to share their values. Their holdings have *nothing* to do with law. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS2/ It’s certainly possible to imagine a situation in which a government entity wrongly prohibits an employee from praying silently on government property during the course of their government employment in a non-coercive way that disrupts no one. This was 100% *not* that case. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS/ Moreover, this bad actor was given every possible accommodation by the government but refused them all because he wanted to file this suit and—even more than that—wanted to evangelize to young men on the taxpayers’ dime. The Court had to *distort the record* to rule this way. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you know this case, you know this decision is an abomination. This is a government employee demanding to pray audibly on government land during a government event in a situation in which he knew young men for whom he was acting in loco parentis would feel coerced to join him. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Anyone who reads this feed knows how anti-violence I am. But watch the video below, read Giuliani saying the pat on his b… — PolitiTweet.org

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VIDEO/ I agree with the reader who analogized this “assault” on Rudy to the classic pratfall routine below: https://t.co/T5XVFij9pr — PolitiTweet.org

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@Datdude721 Depending upon the state, there absolutely can be batteries that don’t involve injury. In my state, a person can serve up to a year in jail merely for making unprivileged physical contact of any kind with someone they do not have permission to touch. It’s called “Simple Assault.” — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS5) Almost any violent act imaginable, I’d decry. But I was also a public defender for years, and every once in a while—it was not very common—an alleged victim would be acting purely out of spite, and not from sincere distress at anything that had happened. That is Rudy, here. — PolitiTweet.org