[1]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress



There is a long history in this country of weaponizing and abusing
religion to justify bigotry.

White supremacists have done it.

Those who justified slavery did it.

Those who fought against integration did it.

And we’re seeing it today with the unprecedented attacks on the LGBTQ
community.

This month for Pride, we are launching a fundraiser to support the safety
of trans, nonbinary, and intersex people in the NYC shelter system.

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contribution today?



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Sometimes, I feel as though if Christ himself walked through the doors of
Congress, and said what he said thousands of years ago — that we should
love our neighbor and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger and
fight for the least of us, that it’s easier for a camel to go through the
eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of
Heaven — he would be maligned as a radical.

I know, and it is part of my faith, that all people are holy and all
people are sacred. There is nothing holy about rejecting medical care of
people, no matter who they are, on the grounds of what their identity is.
There is nothing holy about rejecting a child from a family. There is
nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

I am tired of the only time religious freedom is invoked is in the name of
bigotry and discrimination. It is not up to legislators to deny medical
care. It is up to us to feed the hungry, to clothe the poor, to protect
children, and to love all people as ourselves.

[ [link removed] ]This pride month, will you stand with our LGBT+ neighbors with a
$3 contribution today to the Bronx Defenders and Center
for Urban Pedagogy?



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Yours in service,

Alexandria

 

 


 

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