Our Health is More Important Than Your Religion

In one of the LGBT+ groups I'm a member of on Facebook, someone shared this article.

I know. I'm pissed too.

Religious freedom? What complete bullshit. How is it freedom and equal protection under the law, like the Constitution says all Americans are supposed to have, like everyone in the world should have, if I and so many others like me might die because it's supposedly okay for members of a religion that a lot of us don't even agree with to neglect our medical needs in the name of their religious freedom?

 Was it 'religious freedom' when autistics and accused witches and homosexuals and heretics were burned or hanged or tortured for hundreds of years in the name of Christianity, and are likely still today? Was it religious freedom when Black lives were completely devalued, their bodies destroyed and beaten by brutal slavery, because White Christians felt that Blacks were somehow inferior to them? When an autistic boy died because a preacher knelt on his chest while trying to exorcise the 'demon' that had 'caused' his autism? When so many Muslims were murdered simply for staying true to their faith and the home that had been theirs for centuries, because Queen Isabel wanted her people to be Christian? When the Spanish invaded the Americas and obliterated so much Aztec, Inca, and Maya culture, and then enslaved the people of those civilizations? How about when the English and French pillaged the villages of Native Americans, raped and killed their people, and called them savage and worthless - after those same people had welcomed them and tried to be their friends? Is that the kind of bullshit religious freedom these oppressive bastards want? 

Look, I frankly don't give a shit what religion anyone is or even if they have one. What I give a shit about is the way they act. What I give a shit about is if people are getting hurt. If someone thinks their right to practice their religion is somehow more important than another person's safety or health or rights or life, I will fight back.

With my nature-based spirituality, neurodivergency, bisexuality, affinity for masculine clothes, desire for a chest binder, feminist values, dancing, and quick temper, a lot of the fundies reading this blog - though why they're even here, I have no idea - probably think I'm some kind of demon. They probably think everyone unlike them is a demon, out to destroy them and persecute them and take away their bullshit Christian freedom when really, we just want equality. That's prejudice on their part, and it's getting people killed. So we need to do something about it. The question is, what?