Passover Reflections on Faith, Freedom, and Family
(This piece written by TEMV board member Dana Rudolph. All opinions are her own.) I’ve been celebrating the spring holidays with my interfaith family and reflecting that Passover and Easter this year come in the shadow of ongoing and spiteful religious exemption laws in a growing number of states and in the federal government. These laws, widely seen as targeting the LGBTQ community along with Jews and others, would allow people to cite their religious beliefs as a reason to discriminate. I have to remind myself, however, that we shouldn’t set religion and LGBTQ equality as necessarily opposing forces.
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