General Discussion

...that African Americans, women, Latinos, LBGTQ, and any other person denied basic rights as a matter of course in our checkered history had made (inadequate as it was, we were nevertheless making tangible progress).

And when it comes to trans people, by allowing Medicaid to deny coverage for hormone replacement therapy -- therapy post-surgery trans people require to survive -- they are are intentionally sentencing people to death.

The Un-American, Un-Christian, White Nationalists, Christian Nationalist agenda must be denounced with perfect clarity. Too many Pro-Democracy leaders are still tip toeing around, fearing that in denouncing Christian Nationalism they somehow will alienate all people of faith.

Get a grip. Make a distinction.

We embrace the Christian faith, just as we embrace and welcome all peoples of all faiths at the table of fellowship.

However, we utterly denounce Un-American attempts to pass laws that enforce adherence to religious beliefs that are not shared.

It is pretty f-ing simple. That sort of obsession with controlling others isn't just Un-American, it is Un-Christian. The opposite of faith in not doubt, it is control. When you stop living your beliefs as an example to others, and start trying to control others instead, you have crossed over into a faithless perversion of your religion. You have given up the most basic tenet shared by almost every faith: The Golden F-Ing Rule.