I DESERVE MEDICAL TREATMENT FREE FROM RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION and I AM SPEAKING OUT!!! LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD if this HATE has YOU IN MIND!!!
01/31/2018
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Take a moment if you will to visit Conscience and Religious Freedom to see for yourself how our government in the USA has decided to use RELIGION to DISCRIMINATE against people living with HIV/AIDS and people in the LGBTQI+ Community. As an HIV Positive Gay Christian man I am absolutely appalled by this newest form of DISCRIMINATION.
As a Pastor I can NOT agree with this Administrations decision to DISCRIMINATE against people based on RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. I am a CHRISTIAN and I am thankful that I can worship GOD without looking over my shoulder hoping I am not put to death for doing so. This country was founded on the FREEDOM from RELIGIOUS RULE so people can believe whatever they believe in. It is NOT the FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS PLACE to regulate RELIGION or pass JUDGEMENT on an individual because of their SEXUALITY or their RELIGIOUS BELIEF or UNBELIEF.
America is working towards exactly what our Fore Fathers left Europe to escape FROM!!!
The AIDS Foundation of Chicago is taking action against this DISCRIMINATION and encourages everyone affected to let their VOICE BE HEARD. IT IS OUR RIGHT AS AMERICAN CITIZENS to BE PROTECTED from RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION as well as ANY other FORM OF DISCRIMINATION PERIOD!!!
The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division is about protecting providers who discriminate
January 19, 2018
AFC and Pride Action Tank-strongly condemn the announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division (CRFD) in the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The Trump administration and HHS announced the CRFD will be tasked with “restoring federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom.”To those that work and promote health equity we know this act is intended to roll back critical protections that ensured people living with and vulnerable to HIV, women, LGBTQ individuals and other marginalized populations could not be denied medical care. The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division will now use federal dollars to shield providers who choose to discriminate, instead of prioritizing vulnerable patients and provide services to improve their health is counter to the mission of HHS, wasteful of scarce federal funds, and will result in delayed or lack of care for vulnerable individuals, threatening their health and lives.
We call on the Trump administration and HHS to reverse this decision immediately!
We get it AMERICA, the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION wants to alienate the LGBTQI+ Community as if we are NOT HUMAN. WE ARE HUMAN and WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHT TO NOT BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST!!!
This ADMINISTRATION has been touting RELIGIOUS FREEDOM from day one even though RELIGIOUS FREEDOM was established over 200 years ago by those who founded this country. If they really want to be like the GOD they claim they SERVE they need to follow JESUS' example doing EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to HELP the POOR, the SICK, and the OTHERS that the RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY deems "unworthy". JESUS continually REPRIMANDED the RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY because of their HATEFUL DISCRIMINATION!!!
JESUS commanded those who "FOLLOW" HIM to do this: "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give." Matthew 10:8
JESUS also commanded HIS "FOLLOWERS" to: "Treat others the same way you want them to treat you." Luke 6:31
As a FOLLOWER OF JESUS CHRIST I STRONGLY URGE everyone who is being DISCRIMINATED AGAINST because of this HATEFUL LEGISLATION to LET YOUR VOICE TO BE HEARD!!!
I pray that GOD will be with each person who will suffer from this DISCRIMINATION LAW!!
Blessings and Peace,
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