It is a Sad Day

An Open Letter to Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justices

Gorsuch, Barrett, Kavanaugh, Alito and Thomas

It is a sad day for the United States. It is also a sad day for the Supreme Court. As the keepers of the highest court in the land you continue to betray your mandate, pander to hate groups and set back civil rights for LGBTQ+ Americans and all people of color.

You collectively form a power block in the court that you are using to undermine the principles of freedom and the right to self-determination. Your decisions are making it legal to deny healthcare based on “religious conviction,” increase institutional racism and deny fundamental rights of women to make decisions over their own bodies.

It is disgusting to me that several of you lied or dodged the question about Roe v. Wade and there are no consequences to you for your lies. Your mouths are filled with double speak and you fail to speak the truth and protect the rights of all people.

It is disgusting to me that your individual integrity is utterly absent in your duplicitous actions that make you beholden to the wealthy and powerful. It nauseates me to know we have elected a rapist to the highest Court in the land just because you shed a few tears and boo-hooed to the cameras. Most of us were not fooled by your Oscar worthy acting.

There is not enough space in this document to point out the individual moral failings of each of you, but there is enough evidence to underscore the voids in your individual moral consciences and see the way that plays out in your legal decisions. Again, it is disgusting and nauseating.   

Since you, Chief Justice Roberts assumed his position on the court there has been a distinct shift toward protecting businesses and corporations rather than listening to individuals who seek redress in the court. Siding with business and corporations to selectively deny rights of patrons, while protecting workers who fit your political agenda, is despicable.

Your alliance with Opus Dei clearly shows the fascist tendencies of the Court. You are becoming the handmaiden that hides behind the “rule of law” to push forward an agenda that is radically conservative and socially backward. You would do well to take to heart the words of Matthew Fox, “The Supreme Court itself has become a cesspool of religious ideology ignoring the pluralism of American culture in favor of a far right version of evangelical and Roman Catholic Christianity committed to anti-abortion fanaticism.” A cesspool is an accurate assessment of your presence on the Court.

You are squandering your credibility and have already squandered your integrity. You fail to remedy injustices of the past through your current decisions, such as affirmative action. You fail to understand the institutional, cultural and systematic racism that permeates our social order, and you add insult to injury by taking away one major thing that was trying to right a part of that wrong. You have thrown the baby out with the bath water. Affirmative Action was not perfect, but it held the possibility for repair and revision. Instead you eradicated any movement we have made toward equal access in higher education.

One thing you underestimate, however, is the moral commitment of the American people and the tenacity to do what is right. You may be accountable to no one and go off on tangents destroying our great country, but we will find ways to do what is right. The small group of hate filled, bigoted bullies you represent are no match for the vast majority of people in this country who are committed to the common good, justice and common sense. We will find ways to work around you, ignore you, and/or call you out for your deplorable actions as the highest Court in the land.

Do not underestimate the power of the American people. We will stand for what is just and right, and what benefits the common good, even if you continue to fail your high calling.

In Pursuit of Justice and the Common Good,

Rev. Patricia L. Liberty

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This letter was sent to each Justice named at the head of the document. You are free to copy and use this letter for your own correspondence with members of the high Court. Please give credit and include my blog address.