FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS
Americans endorse freedom for all. That freedom includes the right for all people to
embrace our individual identities which best express who we are. Brandon Williams,
representative for NY-22, doesn’t believe in that right. His participation in a hate-filled
extremist event at the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC proved it. The purpose of
the event was to bring together GOP lawmakers and far-right extremist pastors to
brainstorm measures against LGBTQ freedoms, abortion, and those who don’t subscribe
to their rigid ideology. This is not unexpected from fear-driven, conservative
Republicans. Religious zealots sincerely believe their fundamental interpretation of the
Bible is absolute truth, narrow-mindedly repudiating all others. Their image of Jesus as a
“white” man is a physical impossibility for a Middle Easterner. They willfully support
damnation of people rather than acceptance. This is emphatically in stark contradiction to
the teachings of the Christ.
Conservative Americans have the freedom to believe whatever they choose. They don’t
have the right to force their personal beliefs on others while using draconian ideas to
dictate policy and legislation. Their uninvited meddling into people’s private life
decisions made for the well-being of women, children, and those in the LGBTQ
community, has to be exposed for what it truly is, partisan politics interfering with human
and civil rights.
Politics and religion do not mingle. That is not how a bipartisan democratic government
functions. MAGA Republicans have completely ruptured the Party, making them
incapable of doing their job to serve the American people.
Republicans continue to create chaos by intentionally obstructing bills designed to benefit
all Americans. They refuse to compromise on critical issues facing our nation and the
world. Keep this in mind when voting in November!
Suzanne Timian, Clinton
