Picture just about any Marvel movie. There’s violence, even death. “But if Scarlett Johansson showed a boob, it’d be R-rated,” notes Angela Day, a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in sex therapy. That’s how you know American society is dictated by religious ideals, she says, even if it professes otherwise.
From the recent overturn of Roe to those SCOTUS-approved prayers at the 50-yard line, the divide between church and state has never been more transparent. And in the medical realm, when life-saving decisions and mental well-being can be dictated by faith, it’s hard for patients to buck years of belief in an instant.
That tension
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