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Religious Extremists Weaponizing Coronavirus Against LGBT Americans

Phaylen Fairchild
4 min readApr 1, 2020

Religious organizations such as Samaritans Purse have aligned themselves with medical providers to put a blockade between sick queer patients and emergency treatment for coronavirus.

In the middle of New York City, notoriously anti-gay minister Franklin Graham’s organization known as Samaritans Purse has self funded a makeshift tent hospital in an arrangement with Mount Sinai hospital intended to treat the overflow of patients suffering from COVID-19.

What might have been considered a welcome gesture of community solidarity during a global crisis soon became a power move by a documented hate group to exclude LGBTQ sick people from their services and strong-arm medical professionals that are volunteering to assist sick and dying patients into agreeing to their Statement of Faith; That Transgender people do not exist and marriage is “exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female” and the unrighteous are subjected to “everlasting punishment in hell.

The hate group has also made the public solicitation for “ Christian licensed medical professionals to serve alongside us as we respond to the coronavirus pandemic.”

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Phaylen Fairchild
Phaylen Fairchild

Written by Phaylen Fairchild

Actor, Filmmaker, LGBTQ+ & Women’s Rights Activist All work copyright phaylens@gmail.com

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