US Christians clash with key supreme court conservative supporter

Faithful America, with boasts of 180,000 members, has been described by Newsweek as an organization of Christians supporting social justice causes, defend separation of Church and State, and oppose “Christian nationalism”.

The petition was created as a reaction of some leaked recordings where Alito made controversial comments about God’s place in US society.

“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a woman posing as a Catholic conservative during an exclusive gala, as quoted by The New York Times.

The US Supreme Justice admitted thinking that the differences between the left and the right were impossible to reconcile.

“There can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised,” Alito can be heard saying in the recording, per The New York Times.

However, for many listeners of the leaked audio file, which was freely circulating on social media, the most concerning part is Alito’s crusade for “godliness” in the United States.

In the recording, and cited by the New York Times, Alito can be heard agreeing that it’s important to keep fighting and return the United States to be “a place for godliness”.

This is hardly the only controversy the Supreme Court Justice has been facing in 2024. CNN reported that back in 2021, that a controversial flag was flying over Alito’s home in Alexandria, Virginia.

Picture: Protesters in front of Justice Alito's home in Virginia, on June 2022.

One of them was described by The Washington Post as an upside-down US flag, an international sign of distress that was adopted by Trump supporters to signify their rejection of the 2020 presidential election result, most notably during January 6.

According to The Washington Post, Martha-Ann Alito, the wife of the US Supreme Justice, took responsibility for flying the controversial flags as allegedly spat out their neighbors.

Pictured: Samuel and Martha-Anna Alito in 2006

That’s not the end of it, though. AP News writes that the Alitos also had as late as 2023 the “Appeal to Heaven” flag hoisted on their vacation home in New Jersey.

The revolutionary-era banner has been used by far-right movements favoring to highlight the Christian values of the Founding Fathers, and Christianity’s special place in US society, as AP News explains.

Needless to say, this has sparked a lot of conversation about Samuel Alito’s impartiality as a member of the US Supreme Court.

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