In the America that Donald Trump built, and the Supreme Court has blessed, religious belief is no longer a personal right. It is a bludgeon. It is a cloak used to shield cruelty. It is a sword drawn against anyone who fails to conform to White Christian power.
Religious liberty was never meant to be an all-access pass to ignore civil rights. But today, that is exactly what it has become. In the hands of the MAGA faithful, it has been weaponized into something grotesque: a legal justification to discriminate, to humiliate, to segregate, and to undo generations of progress.
And the Supreme Court has become active co-conspirators in this betrayal.
The new doctrine is simple: if your god tells you to hate someone, the government will let you do it. If your church whispers that gay people ar