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Mar 3 12 tweets 9 min read
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: The number one cause of people not wanting to be involved in religion is because the people loudest about religion are not the good examples of faith.
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: Trump's big campaign promise was to ban Muslims from coming into the US. That's about as anti-religious liberty as you can get.
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: Trump had the greatest threat to religious liberty, yet he also turned religious liberty into the right to discriminate.
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: Biden undid Trump's Muslin ban on Day One in office.
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: Religious leaders do have a place in our society. Look at the Civil Rights movement, which was rooted in the black church. We don't want Christian Nationalism. I think Biden understands this; he's active in his Catholic faith.
@GuthrieGF @amprog
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: In his State of the Union address, Biden talked about trans children who are coming under attack in some states; he said he wants to protect them so they can reach their true potential.
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: They're trying to provoke fear & profit off it.
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: A lot of the religious right is a reaction to corporate profits & desegregation. They're also upset at having lost the fight against gay marriage.
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: I don't know how this got so complicated, but to combat it, we can lift up other religions, not just the religious right.
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction
Rick: Joel Osteen wouldn't let hurricane refugees take shelter in his mega church. What kind of nonsense is that?!
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: I grew up not far from Joel Osteen's church.
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: So many people are frustrated that the conversation is centered on the right when 7 out of 10 Democrats/people who lean Democratic are religious.
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons co-authored a piece called "7 Ways the Biden Administration Advanced Religious Liberty During Its First Year"--you can take a look at it here:
americanprogress.org/article/7-ways…
@GuthrieGF @amprog @CAPAction

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