sad news: Alabama five player was suspended just now…

sad news: Alabama five player was suspended just now…

In his sermon—er, his concurring opinion—he cited Genesis from the Alabama case that redefined frozen embryos as children, flipping the paradigm on in vitro fertilization.

He cited Petrus Van Mastricht, a Dutch theologian from the 17th century. Well, that old Van Mastricht. Because an elderly person may be closer to God, he cited a Bible from the sixteenth century and cited the Sixth Commandment, which forbids killing.

He cited John Calvin, Thomas Aquinas, and an old friend of Roy Moore from the Foundation for Moral Law in Montgomery. About the “wrath of God,” he wrote.

He asserted that all of this was declared public policy by the people of Alabama.

“It seems as though the people of Alabama applied the words of the prophet Jeremiah to every unborn child in this state: ‘I knew you before I formed you in the womb, and I sanctified you before you were born.'”

Was that not a sermon, as I stated? Without a doubt, that was a sermon.

The Alabama Supreme Court responded with a loud, if hesitant, “amen,” with the exception of Justice Greg Cook, who dissented.

Alabaman fertility procedures have been put on hold, raising optimism for the couples who are incredibly trying to conceive.

Without a doubt. It’s a theocracy in Alabama.

And its head clergyman is Tom Parker, a man who, in 2006, chastised his fellow judges for refusing to follow a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that prohibited the execution of individuals convicted of crimes committed while still minors.

Parker has long run his campaign on the idea that Alabama judges ought to be free to disregard decisions made by the US Supreme Court that they disagreed with. All the while denouncing “activist liberal judges” for positions he held, such as punishing his friend Roy Moore for being gay, and reacting with overtly moralistic action.

He has anointed himself as the divine interpreter of your rules, applying his own 17th-century perspective and the interpretation of old religious writings. Regardless of your inconvenient First Amendment right to have any belief at all or to accept your own religious truth, you are subject to his delusions, his understanding of God, and his inner imperative.

He is not by himself. When he was criticized for judicial activism over the death penalty controversy in 2006 by fellow GOP judges and now-congressman Gary Palmer, it was unthinkable that he would have so many amens and awomens on the court to support him.

Parker made an appearance on Johnny Enlow’s show on the day the court announced its embryo ruling last week. According to Media Matters, Parker is a QAnon conspiracy theorist who supports the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” a theological doctrine that exhorts fundamentalist Christians to reclaim the mountains of government, education, the media, religion, family, business, and entertainment.

God “is calling and equipping people to step back into these mountains right now,” according to Parker, who was all in.