Heavy Handed Christianity Rebuffed by Courts

Right wing religious group win more court cases than they should, in my view. But secular efforts are at times successful too. After all, prayer in public schools by teachers is prohibited and gay are permitted to marry.

Right wingers are forever taking Planned Parenthood to task for allegations of wrongdoing. Though some charge somewhere along the line may have had validity, I can't remember any. The allegations I know of have all been tossed out by courts and public opinion.

The same cannot be said of the crooked parties called "pro life" that picket clinics and or try to indoctrinate the public. Recently one of them was found to owe the State of Texas $15 million for money received but work not delivered.

Recently, religious groups have been going to court for the right to spread coronavirus in their churches. They seem unaware the virus will spread elsewhere after it spreads in church. A California court has ruled the Governor can shut down church worship as a part of its emergency powers.

Decades ago when an abortion clinic first opened in Fargo, so called right to life activists set of "clinics" and put "abortion" in the advertisements. They also used names similar to the name of the actual abortion clinic. The goal, of course, was to lure young women into their business and shame them into carrying pregnancies to birth. It took more than one effort until courts put a stop to this nasty practice.

I've discussed here several times the efforts of churches, especially the entire Catholic denomination, to cover up sexual abuse and later to do maneuvers with money to avoid detection and payment for sexual crimes. To a large degree courts have forced the Catholic hierarchy to own up to its crimes.