The Founding Fathers were a group of progressive liberals who saw a better way, they wrote a Constitution and a Bill of Rights that guaranteed everyone the right to worship as they pleased – they had seen what having a “National Religion” could do to a country and the insane amount of bloodshed in the countries they had come from and they did not want that for us.

They wrote protections into those founding documents guaranteeing that we would never have a theocracy, there wouldn’t be an official national religion. It’s called Separation of Church and State. It’s intended purpose was to ensure that future politicians could not pass laws based on the Bible or any other religious text or set of beliefs.

In the above statement you say, “It’s imperative for us to prayerfully consider who we should vote for, and voting for those people who uphold the constitution, who stand for the sanctity of human life in all places…” there is a glaring error in your thinking and philosophy. The Do No Harm Bill is absolutely, 100% Constitutional and the right-wing Christians are bearing false witness when they push this false narrative that liberal or progressive leaders are somehow un American and ‘shredding the Constitution’ when in actuality the exact opposite is true.

Nowhere in any Founding document does it state that adherents of one faith may violate the rights and freedoms of another person in the name of their God. And that’s what you are trying to do. I have seen proponents of your ideology – far-right Evangelical Christians post on social media about a Muslim flight attendant that they said ‘Should find another job if she objected to serving alcohol’. So, you are not advocating that everyone should be able to refuse to do their job based on their deeply held beliefs. NO, you are advocating that Christians should be given a blank check to do whatever they want, to who ever they want. In Islam, these types of laws are called Sharia Law.

We Americans will never allow Sharia Law to be implemented in this country and we will fight with every fiber of our being to ensure that you will not be able to strip us of our Constitutional rights in your push to force us all to live under Biblical Law either. I am neither Muslim or Christian – I would never, in my wildest dreams, try to force those around me to follow my beliefs, let alone force them to live under my interpretation of faith. As for sanctity of life, you conveniently forget that there are Bible passages that advocate FOR abortion. Your Bible also states the life begins at birth when God gives the child birth.

So you are not only trying to force all Americans to live as Christians – you are twisting the words of your own God and your own religious text of beliefs to build a false narrative and misrepresent your own God’s words. It’s blasphemous and absolutely unconstitutional. Until every Christian begins to live by your laws – all of them, not just the ones you cherry-pick – you have no right to inflict your beliefs on others.

In fact once you Christians decide what you all actually believe in, it’s the epitome of entitlement to try to enact laws that even other Christians abhor. I would say that any legislation that even vaguely seems to be based on “Christian Moral Values” you should make sure that EVER single Christian supports it before you try to force non-Christians into compliance – perhaps take your own advice. If you only want to serve Christians – then do not open a public business. Work out your homes and serve only those from your parish.

It seems to me that I learned that love, acceptance and tolerance for our fellow man is one of the most important lessons Jesus taught us, but the supreme level of hypocrisy that I saw between what Christians say and how they actually live is why I found a faith that honors basic truths and stopped identifying as a Christian. I’m not alone either, polls show that many people are leaving the church for much the same reasons.

Don’t like homosexuals? Don’t become one.
Don’t like abortions? Don’t have one.

Your religious freedom pertains to yourself and the choices you make for yourself. It does not pertain to how Caesar spends his money or whether or not Caesar approves of gay marriage or who he says can use the bathroom stall next to you. Your freedom ends where another person’s begins.

I am completely in agreement with the “Do No Harm Act”. Live as an example, evidenced by the fruits of the Spirit. Not as a dictator.