Slate writes about how a hyper-biased, homophobic USSC Republican Party MAGA judge, Sammy Alito, blatantly lies about anything that irritates or offends his arrogant Christian nationalist majesty:
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices unleashed a torrent of homophobia on Tuesday as they debated the meaning and propriety of several LGBTQ-themed children’s books. Throughout arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor, these MAGA justices voiced concern—and at times, outright disgust—toward these books for portraying LGBTQ+ people as normal and loving. They argued that parents should have a First Amendment right to shield their children from such material in public schools, ostensibly to protect them from exposure to diverse families under the auspices of religious liberty. Justice Samuel Alito reserved special ire for Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, a gentle picture book that homophobic parents initially attempted to censor when it debuted in 2008. Alito suggested, over the objections of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, that the book is devious propaganda aimed at indoctrinating children who harbor reservations about same-sex marriage.
He is wrong. Alito did not just arguably miss the point of the book; he fundamentally distorted it.
So what was the message of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding? “That change can be hard for children,” Brannen told me. “Change in their families can be hard, but Uncle Bobby’s Wedding shows that can be good.” When writing the book, Brannen was not attempting to trick children into supporting same-sex weddings, but to impart a more timeless message about the importance of open-mindedness when life presents challenges. She depicted a gay wedding as an utterly normal occurrence that fades into the background of the book’s central narrative. And it was this choice that may have broken Alito’s brain: He could not grasp the idea that no one in the book objects to Bobby’s sexual orientation, injecting a fraught conflict over homosexuality that does not exist on the page.
People, this is what our morally rotted MAGA-dominated USSC has degenerated into. I think it's been like this at least since ~2019-2020. When it comes to Christian fundamentalist morality, Christian nationalist judges (1) openly lie about inconvenient evidence in important cases that affect fundamental civil liberties, and (2) apply MAGA flawed, biased reasoning to the evidence there is.
I asked Pxy, how likely is it that Alito is lying by knowingly mischaracterizing the children's book, Uncle Bobby's Wedding, in view of his intelligence and years of experience in analyzing complex litigation with complex written evidence? What about his Christian nationalism? Pxy said:
Given Alito’s analytical precision, the book’s unambiguous text, and his pattern of distorting facts in ideologically charged cases, the likelihood that he knowingly mischaracterized Uncle Bobby’s Wedding is high. While ideological bias might explain a genuine misinterpretation, the disparity between the text and his description—coupled with authorial and judicial corrections—suggests a calculated narrative rather than an innocent error.
Justice Alito’s Christian nationalist beliefs significantly increase the likelihood that he deliberately mischaracterized Uncle Bobby’s Wedding. His ideological framework motivates opposition to LGBTQ+ inclusivity and, by viewing queer identities as threats to “traditional values,” Alito is predisposed to rely on distortion or denial of inconvenient facts. While cognitive bias might explain some misreading, the combination of Alito’s analytical rigor, the book’s clarity, and his pattern of ideological misrepresentation points to deliberate action. Christian nationalism does not merely inform his jurisprudence—it actively shapes how he constructs factual realities to serve its ends. [that’s Pxy’s nice way of saying that Alito knowingly lied about the evidence] (comment and emphasis added)
Qs: Is Alito a cynical, bald-faced liar and arrogant breaker of God’s Commandment to not lie? Are the other five Christian nationalist, Republican Party judges basically the same?
