Clare Heath-McIvor
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Clare Heath-McIvor
@clareheathmcivor.bsky.social
Distiller of good information on bad religion - cults, coercive control, Christian nationalism & Evangelicalism in politics. Writer. Podcaster. Typo Queen.
Last month, I sat watching a parliamentary hearing livestream in which the ACL argued that religious groups need protection, but vulnerable people in those groups do not. This email is literally arguing for religious groups to keep harming people, when it is ONLY harm.
Just fyi
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Note the use of hyperbole. The old straw man fallacy. Lobotomies. Note the use of spin, calling what a layman would term "exorcism" as simply "prayer with the intent to change a persons gender or sexuality".

This is minimisation of abuse. We see it time and time again. (3/4)
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This is an astounding example of how the right-wing lobby and those it claims to represents, wants to ignore research that shows these practices are ONLY harmful, and wants to ignore the fact that the UN calls it torture.

Religious freedom is not the right to abuse. (2/4)
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Oh you know I have thoughts on this Lucy
October 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thank you! Your support means a lot
October 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thank you!!
October 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
High intelligence and often low tolerance of bullshit.

Both needed in the Whitehouse right now
September 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM