Litigious Americans for Money, and Name Recognition
Washington, D.C. Religious Group Brings ‘Novel’ Litigation Seeking Clout
White saviors in the U.S. are noxious and most of them are monotheists itching for your money if not your children’s minds and bodies, especially if those monotheists are Christians.
This is why in part you have a single-issue group in Washington, D.C. devoted to peddling the notion that U.S. religious liberty or freedom is a balm for the nation’s ugliness — like rightwing laws outlawing abortion care.
The group, founded in the 1940s or something awful like that, continues to exist because of white saviors and monotheists residing on the coasts and pumping the group with enough cash. So-called Americans United for Separation of Church and State is a semi-wealthy “nonprofit” founded by religious people to protect religious freedom in the U.S.
The group is litigious — look at its website; its legal team is monstrous and old. Two of the attorneys, both white, have worked for the group a combined 45 years. The group’s lead financial officer, a small, bald, musty white guy with a foul demeanor and breath, has been lodged at the outfit for 50 years.
The group also loses a lot.
Indeed, the group’s most recent federal litigation wound up giving the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court the chance to rule in favor of white Christian prayer at public high school football games. But for an organization of thirsty monotheists maybe that was the outcome it sought.
Now the monotheist nitwits are at it again.
This time they are arguing in the Missouri state court system that the state’s ban on abortion care violates the Missouri Constitution’s numerous sections “protecting” religious liberty or freedom.
All state constitutions mirror the musty U.S. Constitution and include wordy, inept phrases about the importance of religious liberty in the state or the country in the case of the crusty federal thing. When the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Roe v. Wade, the right-wing justices led by Justice Sam Alito did so by wiping out privacy rights precedent, the beloved First Amendment and its religious clauses were not mentioned.
So the abortion care movement is left with acting in the states to secure abortion care or in the case of Missouri and Wisconsin fight off old-state bans on abortion care.
The legal lodged by the pro-religious Americans United is another loser lawsuit meant to boost the organization’s name and bring in cash to support its tired legal efforts.
American United is a large outfit too, so it employs an unctuous “religious freedom” outreach person, who made trips to St. Louis along with a nitwit AU lawyer to coax area religious groups into joining them in bringing the suspect litigation.
And the efforts succeeded as the Missouri Independent reports, Americans United convinced a gaggle of religious leaders, Christian and Jewish, to be the face of its shiny new loser litigation.
AU must love the Independent’s photo too — this is the time for the group to raise the boatloads of cash it needs — to keep bringing knee-slapper litigation like this.
The reason the litigation will chalk up another loss for AU’s old legal team is because state court judges are as political as the ones occupying SCOTUS. Like 35 or so other states, Missouri voters choose the “judges” and “justices” who sit on their courts.
Now the AU legal team, so old that most of the attorneys drink whiskey while writing their complaints, do not care about the makeup of courts. They’re drunk and under great pressure from a money-hungry president/CEO and a fat development department to produce action for headlines — to grab clout.
It does not matter in this case whether Missouri lawmakers discussed religion and inserted God into the preamble of the ban outlawing abortion in the state (except in cases of medical emergency, i.e., life of the mother is endangered).
This case will be easy for conservative judges that dominate the Missouri bench. Legislative history with a bit puffery or nod to God, a conservative judge will find innumerable ways to enjoy and then trash Americans United’s “novel” litigation.
Hell, if Americans United gets lucky and grabs a victory in the early going from a lone “progressive” judge it might make enough to cover a quarter of its costly, suspect legal endeavor, and in turn give the white saviors another day to gloat, navel-gaze, and send out emails seeking cash from its monied white saviors in New York City and San Francisco.
