American Theocracy in the Making | Trains

 The Supreme Court was busy last week. First, they ruled against affirmative action based on the 14th amendment: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The court cited the equal protection part of the amendment as a reason to invalidate affirmative action, claiming it denied white people the same rights as non-white people.

But, they also ruled in favor of a website designer in Colorado who didn't want to make websites for gay people. It seems the 14th amendment did not apply here. The court has set up two classes of people. Religious people get to ignore laws that offend their religious sensibilities. Those of us who are not religious have to follow those laws. That seems wrong and hardly seems like equal protection to me.

While that is upsetting, I did get a picture of a Metra commuter train at the Geneva, Illinois Metra station on Saturday. 




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