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1You know what has been pissing me off lately. Radical Conservative Christian Extremists  claiming that Anti Discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ+ Americans is a “violation” to the First Amendment. They are claiming that LGBTQ+ protections “violate” so called “Religious Freedom”. News Flash. Anti Discrimination Laws that include sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression do NOT violate the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. You know what does violate the first amendment? Government passing laws which allows a business owner, a doctor, a real estate agent, a county clerk etc. to discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression because of someone’s so called “religious beliefs”. So lets go over the First Amendment shall we. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably assemble, and petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” so let’s talk about the first part of the First Amendment “  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” This does NOT mean that there is religious exemption when it comes to civil liberties. What this means is that The Government can NOT pass laws that favor religion nor can Government pass laws that prohibit religion.  Translation SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE! Let’s also talked about what our Founding Fathers have said about the Separation of Church and State. George Washington wrote a letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia in May of 1789. Washington stated... “If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.” So in translation if George Washington were alive today he be saying we are a Secular Democracy and not a Theocracy. Here’s another quote by a Founding Father that will piss off  Radical Conservative Christian Extremists. This quote comes from Founding Father John Adams when he signed The Treaty of Tripoli in 1797 and it’s pretty obvious what he is saying in this quote that I shouldn’t need to translate it. Founding Father Adams said “The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” Yeah News flash AMERICA IS NOT FOUNDED ON CHRISTIAN VALUES. Lets now go back in time to before the European White Man stole this land from the Native Americans. Native American Culture has always viewed LGBTQ+ people to being sacred people. In fact they had a special name for them known as Two Spirit. LGBTQ+ people in Native American Culture for centuries have been considered as Holy People. Yet what do the Extreme Right Wing radical Conservative Christians call them? Perverts and an abomination to God. Yet Native American Culture has always viewed LGBTQ+ people as sacred people. Now lets fast forward to what Founding Father Benjamin Franklin said about Religion in his letter to  Richard Price on October 9th, 1780. Franklin stated in the letter that  “When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obligated to call for help of the civil power, it’s a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.” this translation should be a no brainier. And if you want to use the Bible to justify discriminating against LGBTQ+ people than you really need to remember what Galatians 3:28 states “There is Neither Jew Nor Greek, There is Neither Slave Nor Free, There is No Male Nor Female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” Translation God loves everyone and created everyone in the Lord’s image meaning Yes LGBTQ+ people ARE created by God whether you like it or not. If you are only paying attention to the Old Testament then guess what. I guess you might as well quit attending Lobster Night at the country club because eating shellfish is an abomination according to Leviticus 11:9-12, you might as well be naked because many of the clothing you wear are mixed fabrics and Leviticus 19:19 says that mixing fabrics is an abomination. You might want to take your child off the Football team at school because Leviticus 11:7-8 states that touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Lets also not forget you farmers out there. Remember to NOT plant two different crops side by side because Leviticus 19:19 along with the mixed fabrics states that planting two different crops side by side can be punished. Look this post is NOT an attack on religion. I’m a person of Faith myself. I find it ridiculous that Right Wing Conservative Christian Extremists are making a false claim that LGBTQ+ Anti Discrimination protections are a “violation” to religious freedom when in all due reality religious freedom is NOT even being attacked when it comes to Christianity in America. The ones being attacked in America are Religions that are NOT apart of the Christian Faith (Muslims getting many of the attacks), LGBTQ+ People, Immigrants, People of Color, People living in Poverty, The Middle Class, Unions, College Students, Single Parents, and Women. White Cisgender Heterosexual Male Christians are NOT the ones being oppressed in the United States of America.  If you are a Christian and you want to live in a Country with religious law than move to a place like Egypt which is a Middle Eastern Country where 8.9 million of the population are Christians  or even Syria where as of 2011 1,700,000-2,300,000 of the population are Christian.

Y’all are fuckin’ retarded.

If you think of conservative and liberal as manners of thought, rather than positions on a political spectrum, this starts to make sense.  People who are essentially conservative in their manner of thinking, have latched on to ideas that have come out of liberal thought - and become deeply, angrily, conservative about them...

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