Thanks to the Supreme Court, attacks on LGBTQ rights are rising

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Sarah Posner is the author of 'Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind.'

A new report from the advocacy group American Atheists lays out yet another way in which America is rapidly becoming a nation of haves and have nots: the residents of blue states who have rights, and the residents of red states where Republican lawmakers, propelled by a right-wing Supreme Court and Christian nationalist interest groups, are taking a sledgehammer to those rights.

But the current Supreme Court, shaped by the Federalist Society, former President Donald Trump and Republican senators, has bestowed gifts on Christian right activists and Republican state lawmakers, rather than antagonizing them. After the court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion in Dobbs v.

 

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