Live Free or Die - Freedom of Religion

 If the religious right—the same zealotry that helped elect radical Right-Wing Republicans and push Project 2025—manages to outlaw porn, do you really think people will stop “sinning”? If they ban abortion, do you think women won’t still seek it out? If they criminalize gay pride or gatherings, do you believe LGBTQ+ people will stop coming together?

This is not a Christian nation. America was built on the principle of religious freedom, meaning people of all faiths—or no faith—have the right to practice (or not practice) as they choose.

There’s a statue in Boston of a Quaker - Mary Dyer -who was hanged by the Puritans when they ruled the region. Is that really the direction we want to return to—punishing or excluding those who aren’t Christian?

If we start forcing prayer in schools, we must also allow every religion the same right. Muslims pray five times a day. Buddhists chant. Are we prepared to make space for all of it? Because once you open that door, you open a can of worms.

There’s a reason we separate Church and State. My ancestors fled religious persecution to find freedom here. Just ask Japanese people how dangerous a state religion can be, given their own history.

Freedom of religion means freedom from religious control, too.

How long are we going to let MAGA extremists threaten our freedom under the guise of morality?

#livefreeordie

Photo below: Boston: Mary Dyer was a Quaker who fought for religious freedom. In 1660 these beliefs were considered a crime, and she was persecuted for practicing Quakerism and eventually hanged for it in the Boston Common. Mary Dyer’s death influenced religious freedom legalization and the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Credit: https://wanderwomenproject.com/places/mary-dyer-statue/

https://historicipswich.net/.../persecution-of-quakers.../