Republicans Effort To Declare LGBT+ A Religion Backfired

Phaylen Fairchild
3 min readJul 21, 2022

Back in January, and for the second time since 2018, the GOP of North Dakota introduced House Bill 1476 and intended to ratify it into law.

Like so many of the deeply discriminatory bills, this was a new and bold way to strip all LGBTQ of their rights by laying the groundwork to reclassify the community as an organized religion referred to as “Secular humanists.” In…

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Phaylen Fairchild

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