Here’s the introduction to a piece that, to us, suggests the US Supreme Court is heading towards the theocratic thinking of the so called arch-enemy Iran..
Andrew Keen writes..
I don’t normally publicly speculate on the size of the genitalia of Supreme Court Justices. But then these aren’t normal times and Supreme Court Justices like Samuel Alito aren’t, so-to-speak, normal members.
Earlier this week, Dahlia Lithwick, host of the Slate law podcast Amicus and author of the upcoming Lady Justice; Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, appeared on Keen On. She was outlining the way in which Samuel Alito and his fellow conservative male Supreme Court justices seem intent on banning not just abortion and contraception, but also the enjoyment of sex itself.
The Supreme Court, Lithwick warned, wants to make eroticism not just illegal but undemocratic. Only the privileged will have the freedom to not just enjoying, but even imagining good sex. It’s the actualization of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian Handmaid’s Tale which she so chillingly outlined on Keen On last year.
“I don’t want to be crude,” I remarked to Lithwick about Alito and his fellow kill-joy Justices. “But maybe they just have very small penises.”
Crude? Moi? But in these unusual times, I’m afraid I couldn’t hold my tongue. So apologies to Justice Samuel Alito if he happens to read this. No doubt he’s equally well-endowed as the other conservatives on the court. Forget the Freudian distraction of penis size. My real measurement concern with him is quantifying not just the size of his brain and his heart, but also that most elusive of Christian jewels, his soul.
As Dahlia Lithwick reminds us in her prescient Lady Justice, we are in a “battle to save America.” And, with Supreme Court decisions like Dobbs, these battlelines are clearly drawn. One is the Atwoodian America of a Handmaid’s Tale where there is no longer any division between church and state and where the Supreme Court has been transformed into the operating committee of Vatican II. The other is an America where priests and lawyers are banned from snooping in our bedrooms, controlling our bodies and interfering in how we choose to have fun.
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