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.
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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.
Yours in service,
Alexandria
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