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What Alabama’s IVF ruling reveals about the ascendant Christian nationalist movement (www.theguardian.com)

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Supporters of the idea that the US should be a Christian country have a foothold in politics – and are growing bolder

In the Alabama state supreme court case that dubbed embryos “extrauterine children” and imperiled the future of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the state, the first reference to the Bible arrives on page 33.

“The principle itself – that human life is fundamentally distinct from other forms of life and cannot be taken intentionally without justification – has deep roots that reach back to the creation of man ‘in the image of God’,” the Alabama supreme court justice Tom Parker wrote in an opinion that concurred with the majority. Attributing the idea to the Book of Genesis, Parker’s opinion continued to cite the Bible as well as such venerable Christian theologians as John Calvin and Thomas Aquinas.

For experts, Parker’s words were a stunningly open embrace of Christian nationalism, or the idea that the United States should be an explicitly Christian country and its laws should reflect that.

“He framed it entirely assuming that the state of Alabama is a theocracy, and that that is a legitimate way of evaluating laws and policies,” said Julie Ingersoll, a University of North Florida professor who studies religion and culture. “It looks like he decided to just dismiss the history of first amendment religious freedom jurisprudence at the federal level, and assume that it just doesn’t apply to Alabama.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like:

My grandfather forfeited his German citizenship so his family could escape the holocaust

Is a pretty strong case for you to be granted citizenship.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Maybe. It was 1936 that he renounced his citizenship, so that may or may not be considered. However, my great-grandmother did own an apartment building with business spaces below it in East Berlin which was confiscated by the Nazis and my grandfather and father spent about a decade trying to get it back after the Berlin Wall fell (they finally did but had to sell it for a very low price because there were price caps due to the poverty in East Berlin) so that might be considered?