Donald Trump had recently finished a familiar riff about banning gender transition surgery for children when the former president, speaking to an audience of Evangelical voters, moved on to something new: a policy that would affect transgender adults.

“I will ban all taxpayer funding for sex or gender transitions at any age,” said Trump, receiving thunderous applause at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington last month. The Republican leader, who moments earlier had also pledged to reinstate a ban on transgender men and women serving in the military, paused for several seconds to soak in the crowd’s adulation.

It’s the kind of moment — and the type of policy — increasingly common on the GOP presidential campaign trail this year.

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So you think everyone who is Jewish have mental illness? That everyone who has ear rings or tattoos are mentally ill?

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I want to know what faith has to do with gender?

Signed, a Christian.

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Repugnant games are pure hateful.

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Your religion does not prohibit me from anything, it prohibits you. Learn the difference.

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They find a lot of joy in making people hurt.

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They believe that suffering brings one closer to God, therefore they want us all to suffer as much as they imagine they are suffering.

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The vaunted Mother Teresa didn’t want the sick to heal; she actively wanted them to suffer, as it was beautiful to her. It’s not particularly crazy to argue that Christianity is a kind of death cult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG-lgmPvYA

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Just adding to what you said. She denied people medicine and medical care because it was “godly” while receiving said care herself.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=NJG-lgmPvYA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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There’s no hate quite like Christian love.

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