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Caliman73

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2. He has every right as a citizen to raise his kids how he wants...
Tue Dec 13, 2022, 02:03 PM
Dec 2022

I think it is backwards and ineffective but that is my opinion.

What the GOVERNMENT does not have the right to do, is impose particular religious or religiously inspired moralism on people who do not share those ideas.

No one has argued seriously, that humans are autonomous blobs of silly putty unconstrained by nature or biology. In fact, we are highly motivated by nature and biology and have created social constructs in part to help deal with some of those naturalistic drivers.

Marriage, gender, sexuality (while this has basis in biology), identity, etc... are concepts and labels that we have agreed upon and constructed as part of our existence in society.

People have bodily autonomy and if people who can become pregnant do not want to carry the fetus to the point of viability and birth, then they have the bodily autonomy to make that decision. His only argument is based on his religious beliefs and as I sad up top, he doesn't get to (or shouldn't get to) impose his religion on the rest of us.

I know this goes without saying because he is a Trump appointee, but this man is not very intelligent sounding.

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