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BREAKING: TX Judge Rules HIV PrEP Insurance Coverage Violates Religious Freedom [1]
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Date: 2022-09-07
The pill that violates your religious rights...apparently.
You read that title correctly. Supposedly someone taking medication to protect their own personal health is a violation of someone else’s religious freedom. And make no mistake: this affects way more than LGBTQIA+. It is a public health issue that impacts ALL of us.
x A federal judge in Texas has ruled partially in favor of plaintiffs who argue that paying for insurance that covers PrEP violates their religious beliefs because the drug "enable[s and encourages] homosexual behavior."
https://t.co/8dXBPjR9VZ — The Advocate (@TheAdvocateMag) September 7, 2022
Some hosebag attorney named Jonathan Mitchell filed a case in Texas arguing that his plaintiffs who pay into a health insurance policy that covers PrEP violates their religious beliefs based on the fact that it “enables and encourages homosexual behavior” and apparently they aren’t having it. Never mind the fact that PrEP saves lives and there really are heterosexual folks that take it as well. Apparently PrEP is a slippery slope that will lead to gay sex in the streets while reading banned books to 3rd graders in the wrong bathrooms….or something.
The 42 page ruling by United States district judge Reed O’Conner states “The PrEP mandate violates Braidwood’s rights under [Religious Freedom Restoration Act].”
This douche bubble of a justice (a mockery of the term) is not new to this ridiculous sort of behavior according to The Advocate who writes:
O'Connor's ruling is not surprising to seasoned observers. A coalition of conservative groups sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to allow them to discriminate based on religious grounds, and O’Connor ruled in 2021 that they could proceed. This was despite the Supreme Court extending employment protections for LGBTQ+ people a year earlier. In addition, O’Connor struck down Obama-era health insurance protections for LGBTQ+ people and ruled the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional (the Supreme Court later reversed O’Connor’s rulings).
x Let us be clear: PrEP is essential to combating the transmission of HIV and keeping the public healthy. Today's ruling from Texas is an example of every person becoming a law unto themself in the name of religion but for the sole purpose of subordinating gay men and trans women. — Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) September 7, 2022
Sure, I could probably get more in depth and gnash my teeth while rending my garments, but I’m just too exhausted by the constant friggin’ onslaught of these people. People who want their “rights and freedoms” guaranteed at all costs, fuck everyone else's. Even if it means abusing the court system to get their rights...and their perceived enemies.
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If they are after preventative meds like this on religious grounds, they will surely come for HIV drugs for those who have the disease already, under the pretense that its preventing God’s will these people be punished and die.
I’m one of those folks. And your God ain’t killing me despite your best wishes for my death.
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