We don't do Kings in America -->
Rise up with us on No Kings Day, 7/14I stood on the patio of the Trump National Doral resort in Miami, Florida, last year watching a woman in a QAnon shirt get baptized in a small inflatable pool while a line of people waited to be healed by a far-right conspiracy peddling “prophet.” Attending the ReAwaken America Tour (headlined by disgraced general Michael Flynn) and a “Pastors for Trump” event there was an eye-opening experience for me: one-third pandemic lies, one-third election denialism, and one-third Christian revival...
Interfaith Alliance, a national leader in upholding multi-faith democracy and civil rights for all Americans, is appalled by Rep. Mary Miller’s bigoted attack on a Sikh man, whom she initially misidentified as Muslim, for leading a prayer on the floor of the House of Representatives. In her now-deleted post, Rep. Miller called on Congress to uphold the supposed “truth” that ““America was founded as a Christian nation.”
At the heart of our democracy is the belief that individuals should be free to make decisions guided by their own conscience, values, and beliefs, especially when it comes to their health care. The growing efforts to restrict access to reproductive health care under the guise of religious or political authority is deeply concerning and recent legal challenges across the country threaten not only access to care but also the foundational principle that no single religious tradition should determine public policy for everyone.