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Alabama Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist's Show

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Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism.

Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker, who wrote the concurring opinion in last week’s explosive Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos have the same rights as living children, recently appeared on a show hosted by self-anointed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist.

Parker was the featured guest on “Someone You Should Know,” hosted by Johnny Enlow, a Christian nationalist influencer and devoted supporter of former President Donald Trump. Over the course of an 11-minute interview, Parker articulated a theocratic worldview at odds with a functioning, pluralistic society.

“God created government,” he told Enlow, adding that it’s “heartbreaking” that “we have let it go into the possession of others.”

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Hear me out.
Buy a massive freezer.
Adopt every single frozen embryo you can. There should be a bunch available in Alabama.
Move to Alabama.
Claim every single one for tax credit.
Bankrupt the state government.
If that doesn't work, keep going.
Register every fetus that's been frozen for at least 18 years to vote. They can't speak for themselves, so someone has to.
Elect sane people to office.
- When your freezer conks out and all of your “children” are dead, then you are now liable.
  This is why people doing IVF are so terrified. They could be held liable if their embryos become non-viable.
  
  You can also draw a straight line between "embryos are children" and "all embryos must be implanted."
  
  It's an act of God that the power went out.
  
  I’d definitely get redundant generators and batteries to protect my income-I MEAN, my family.
  
  Can embryos inherit property? Could they be an end around on inheritance tax? The mobile children of the donors could be guardians of the inheriting embryo?
- How much is a frozen fetus going for these days?
  
  Ima need about tree-fitty.
Partisan judges are automatically unqualified.
- Wrong
  We need partisan leftist judges to crack down on cops, slumlords, union busting, discrimination, and other vile expressions of rightist ideology.
  
  To me, the things you mentioned lean more towards basic human rights. I don’t think it would be fair to call a judge partisan if he or she rules to preserve those. But I’m just a dude on the internet. Happy Friday friend!
- Who defines what makes you partisan?
  
  Well, the judge saying God created government is a strong clue.
  
  Merriam-Webster.
  
  Well, if someone's chosen lifestyle compels them to start quoting things like "the" bible on the job and endorsing xtian nationalism, even if they have such a powerful role in a secular government, then it's cut and dry, isn't it?
  
  This man is unable to make decisions based on the evidence put before him in a case. He instead refers to religious doctrine.
I'd be claiming a shitload of dependants on my state taxes.
- 1 ovulation a month.
  12 months a year.
  Some basic math shows that my wife and I have well over 100 children according to Alabama, a good chunk from before I even met her.
  Most couples with at least one female in it will have similar or higher numbers.
  And all this just in time for tax season. It’s gonna be like Christmas for women, and hell for state tax officials.
  
  They’d have to be fertilized embryos, not just eggs, so not quite. But pretty damn close.
WTAF is a theocrat like this even doing in our government in the first place? He apparently cannot separate his little book club's narratives from his role in a secular government and now we learn he is a conspiracy theorist?
- What book club?
  I don’t think he,…reads
  
  A lot of members of that little book club don't even read the book they claim is sacred to them. One doesn't have to be a reader to be a member of that book club.
If they are children in Alabama then why aren't they working in a coal mine or slaughter house ?
Q.E.D.
and get jobs you lazy hippy fetuses
- Because there's no coal in Alabama. You're thinking West Virginia. It's cotton fields in AL!
  /s
  
  The embryos yearn for the cotton fields.
Just being extremely generous and assuming for the sake of argument that every crime that Trump has been proven to have committed was somehow a conspiratorial hit job perpetrated by some massive shadowy leftist cabal. I'll never understand how the "grab em by the pussy" guy is the Christian choice. How the guy who cultivated the image of ruthless businessman, and who fired people for the sake of entertainment is the Christian choice. The man who famously cited second Corinthians as "two Corinthians" to a room full of evangelical Christians is the Christian choice. How the guy who insults people so regularly and often that there is a whole wikipedia article dedicated to it is the Christian choice. And finally, how the Wharton grad, billionaire New York real estate tycoon somehow doesn't represent the "coastal elite" which is supposedly the enemy he is fighting against to restore "true Christian values".
- Honestly, I'll never understand how Christianity has become ingrained with right wing politics. Modern day conservative churches are at odds with everything that Christ taught and stood for.
  
  Christianity as a governing body has pretty much always been oppressive and against anything progressive.
  Then you take your puritans, who were so far off the horizon of extremities that even established Christian governments in Europe were all like, "dude, you guys are cray-cray," dump them on the shores of an entirely new continent populated by brown people who don't speak Jesus, sprinkle in a bunch of beer and guns, add some African slaves, and you've got the foundation of the land of the free
- They're just showing what wins when their politics conflict with their religion.
One need only look at the state to realize it's a shit show. Nothing in the Bible belt is worth saving.
- Lotta good people you're throwing out with the bathwater there, but fuck 'em, I guess. You're stoking the flames whose destruction you condemn.
  
  Super-liberal here who moved to Alabama because the jobs were too good and the cost of living is great; I'm going to do my best to vote these fuckers out and try to get more liberals moving into the state. The conservatives are doing their fucking best to disincentivize liberals to move here, but GA is a good example that liberals can flip a state.
  
  I don't know where you're seeing "good people" in the South. I live in Tennessee and I have to endure hearing people every goddamn day talking about destroying the country just to get back at the "left."
  It's the only place I've ever seen "Trump Stores." And these people are ravenous about a second civil war. I just refuse to engage in trying to save people who don't want to be saved. Fuck the lot of them.
- I agree. Please send nukes south. Amen.
Is that a Y'all-Quaeda branch?
- 7 Mountains Dominionism is literally Sharia law but Christianity instead of Islam.
  
  It is funny how similar they are. Only the name is different
  
  So Sharia wants to perpetuate the apocalypse, too?
  
  I've started referring to MTG as "Sharia Twain."
Christian nationalism
You really have these things upside down in the New World.
Wow that guy looks evil
- He looks like the guy that gets bitten but tries to hide it in zombie movies.
Kamoulox
If embryos are children, then every month a woman doesn't fertilize an embryo from puberty to menopause, she's killing a child.
I mean, that's correct, right? That's what this Judge is claiming. I say we roll with that narrative. Any unpregnant woman is killing a baby. LOCK HER UP! But of course the state will have to impregnate the jailed women. Otherwise they'll be an accessory to even more murders every month, so all women in prison will also need to be pregnant.
- You need to go back to HS biology. An unfertilized egg is exactly that an egg.
  You need both an egg and sperm to make an embryo.
  Menstruation happens BECAUSE there isn’t an embryo.
  I don’t agree with the ruling any more than the next guy but this take is just dumb.
  
  Comments like the one above, and upvotes on those comments, are shocking common in threads about this ruling. I wonder how many people in America don’t remember their grade school biology, or didn’t get taught this.
  I also wonder how much this is playing into America’s abortion laws. If people don’t understand the grade school biology, how can they possibly make an informed decision at the ballot box?
  
  They seem to understand that a embryo is a fertilized egg, I think they are just pointing out the next logical step would be to arrest any woman who doesn't get her eggs fertilized and any man who spills his sperm on the ground because that's children being murdered..
  
  Agreed. There's plenty to be upset about without also inventing things the way conservatives often do.
  And getting things wrong just gives them the opportunity to dismiss everything you say based upon a single flaw they can latch upon: "Oh, clearly you haven't done enough research into the topic to be taken seriously."
- Embryos are the stage of development after fertilization.

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