When I was 26(now 70), I left the Catholic Church and converted to another religion. In essence, it was because of sex. I was not willing to give it up. Nor accept its sole purpose was for procreation. The position of the Catholic church was that I had attended preCanna conferences and married in a high nuptial mass and there was nothing to undo it. Therefore, no matter what my husband may do in abandoning me and my child, my marriage vows would remain for me intact until death.
All five of the justices responsible for these decisions against women are acting from the enshrinement of Catholic beliefs. For them to do otherwise would risk their Catholic standing and would become a sin requiring confession and absolution resting on promising to sin no more.
I thought leaving the Catholic church would give me the power to make up my own mind about the validity of church law and my conscience--something the Catholic church denies its followers.
The Catholic church once convened a conference to debate if women were really human or not.
St. Augustine enshrined that a women's place in church was to cover her head and remain silent in church. He also sanctified beating women with a stick no bigger than the thumb. There is no nun within any hierarchy in the Church who is not subject to the lowest male priest.
The Catholic church allows no woman to have any part in any major theological decision.
I recently returned to the Catholic church in January of this year to hear a very emphatic preaching against Roe versus Wade. I considered getting up and leaving midway but did not want to make a scene. I never heard this kind of thing while I was young.
When two thirds of the Supreme Court is Catholic and the other one third is Jewish both of which represent small populations of the country, USA we have a problem.
Were any of these Catholic justices asked to disavow their religious beliefs? If not, why not? explicitly, to deny Catholic doctrine is a sin if you are a practicing Catholic.
What really scares me for women is that most female saints held as role models of the Catholic church are almost always virgins and some are saints merely for preserving their virginity choosing death over life while being raped. This was a standard for law enforcement for a very long time. Its loss is still lamented and it is what makes rape victims considered as participants in their own rapes. My premarital counseling taught that a married woman had no right to refuse and there was no such thing as marital rape.
I opted out of the Catholic Church by converting and walking away. It caused a great deal of pain and distress in my entire family. Some took the position that leaving the Catholic church made me an unfit mother. But, I have never regretted it and it changed and maybe saved my life. I began to question everything--something also not allowed in the Catholic church which explicitly states today that sin is questioning authority.
However, at my age I cannot opt out of my country run by some of the most hypocritical men who view themselves as the Cardinals of Court bringing back Justice as they were taught it. In the Catholic church, church law trumps every thing.
I want to know can you impeach a Justice for imposing his religion on what is supposed to be secular law? To me this is far more serious than Fortas accepting gifts.