It’s not the fault of Alabamians, it’s the fault of Alabama Republicans and by extension the national party. Anything short of assigning blame where it belongs, squarely at the feet of the Republican party, is a blatant lie and a transparent attempt to spread blame onto those who bear no responsibility for this tragedy whatsoever.

The author is criticizing the influence of religion on politics and policy. I would like to hear why you think he should be blaming the Republican party instead of the religious roots of hateful policies.

That reasoning only makes sense if you inject your personal religious beliefs. Without them – without the self-righteousness to determine what is or isn’t sinful – what are you actually left with in this ordeal?
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Who are you to judge him for that?
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From trying to remove LGBTQ+ books from libraries to essentially banning transgender kids from existence to forcing children to have children, the state of Alabama, under conservative rule, has cornered the market on religious governance.
Just as the Founders absolutely did not intend.
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I hate to break this to you, but in this country where religious freedom has kept us from constant civil war, the fact that your Christian beliefs find crossdressing abhorrent or a book about gay teens unacceptable is utterly irrelevant. Or, at least, it should be.
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Yet, we continue to push these distorted Christian beliefs as actual policy and law.