r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 10h ago

Supreme Court rebuffs Trump administration restrictions on medical care for transgender inmates

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-inmates-trump-0b46a5cc302e1c8bcd292d32533e9a35?utm_source=app&utm_medium=android_share&utm_campaign=copy_link
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u/TintedApostle 8h ago

Want to know why Trump and MAGA supporters are focused on Trans issues so much? One just need to read the answer to Question 1 of Malleus Maleficarum from 1486. This was the guide used to identify witches and sorcerers...

"Whoever believes that any creature can be changed for the better or the worse, or transformed into another kind or likeness, except by the Creator of all things, is worse than a pagan and a heretic."

These are religious extremists. This is what they believe. Centuries of science do not matter.

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u/thepianoman456 7h ago

That may be true, but I think it’s simpler than that. Fascists need a boogeyman to sell their horrible policies, and they basically just pick one from a hat.

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u/TintedApostle 7h ago

Fascists play on beliefs, fears and hate of what ever group they need.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 5h ago

It is their base who believes in the Malleus Maleficarum of1486. The trump administration need not believe in it themselves in order to exploit the beliefs of their base.

Trump himself most certainly does not believe in anything religious. He about as irreligious and one can be. Everything he has ever said about religion was intended to manipulate the religious.

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u/TintedApostle 5h ago

Absolutely.... Thomas Paine covered this...

“Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”

― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason