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We deplore the religious fanatics who deny women their basic rights in the Middle East but accept the same regressive individuals in the United States. There was ample reason for the founding fathers to include the separation of church and state in the constitution.

Christianity has a 2000 year history of oppressing women and people of color and using war to acquire more land and more wealth and to serve as an excuse for the domination by small groups of white men. It was the Catholic pope whose backing insured the election of Adolph Hitler to the chancellorship by German Catholics in the parliament. It was the U.S. evangelicals that enabled Reagan to become president and that were key to the election of Trump in 2016. The result is a radical right controlling the Federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court, to strip hard won human rights from working class people that took a century to achieve and only a few decades to lose.

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