Why are there so many overtly religious businesses in Leicester?

I'm Catholic, we get a lot of the same criticisms. I understand why people view it that way, but no actual Christian religion teaches exclusion of anyone, or oppression of women. That's your hyperbolic and misinformed viewpoint.

What the religion says and what the church teaches are very often different, but what the church teaches and directs its congregation to vote for and its politicians to enact into law are what actually matters, and that's what's being discussed here. TL;DR No True Scotsman fallacy. And this isn't just "my hyperbolic and misinformed viewpoint". Look around you. Read the news. What did the SCOTUS just do? A majority Catholic court, I might add. These are facts, not my opinion. This is happening and has been happening for decades.

"all LGBTQ supporters are trying to force predatory sex ed in elementary schools" and infiltrate the government, etc.

Except there's no evidence for this whatsoever. There's thousands of years of evidence of oppression and violence committed by the church itself and/or its followers. As I stated above, it's happening right now, right here, in this country. You're denying reality if you say this isn't so. You can say "oh those aren't real Christians" but when the majority of you are either acting that way or at least tolerant of the rest who are acting that way it's a statement with no substance.

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