Right-wing evangelist Franklin Graham is having a major conniption fit over Monday’s Supreme Court ruling which found that LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination under Title Vii of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

He’s as anti-LGBTQ as you get and he’s claiming America was founded on his right to fire them.

“As a Bible-believing follower of Jesus Christ, my rights should be protected,” Graham wrote, regarding the SCOTUS decision in a Facebook post. “Even if my sincerely held religious beliefs might be the minority, I still have a right to hold them. The same holds true for a Christian organization. These are the freedoms our nation was founded on.”

I’ve included his conniption fit at the end of this article.

Quite obviously, in Graham’s world up is apparently down. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects people from discrimination and the fact that the Supreme Court decided this Monday is a wonderful thing. LGBTQ people are still very marginalized and discriminated against and they very much need the protections this act offers.

Graham wants to keep discriminating, however, in order to promote the freedom he enjoys by oppressing others.

“I believe this decision erodes religious freedoms across this country,” he wrote. “People of sincere faith who stand on God’s word as their foundation for life should never be forced by the government to compromise their religious beliefs.”

But the courts have previously found this to be a wrong-headed idea, as in the case of Warren Jeffs, the pedophile polygamist leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (which is not the Mormon Church), who tried to use this argument and failed.

This is lost on Graham, however, and as The New Civil Rights Movement notes, he wasn’t done with his rant.

“Christian organizations should never be forced to hire people who do not align with their biblical beliefs and should not be prevented from terminating a person whose lifestyle and beliefs undermine the ministry’s purpose and goals,” he wrote.

Then he asserts that the Court’s historic ruling has “enacted a new law that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the 1964 Civil Rights Act as ‘protected classes.'”

That, however, isn’t the case.

The SCOTUS justices are following in the footsteps of other courts that have determined that anti-LGBTQ discrimination should be classified as sex discrimination. They didn’t “enact a new law,” instead, they realized LGBTQ people are protected under this law.

I’m an atheist and I have to say that when religious people complain about other human beings I get a bit confused. They’re saying “you should hate this person but not me because I’m special.” Some want the right to discriminate when they themselves are part of a very large group that was historically marginalized. And they are always telling us we are supposed to “love thy neighbor.” Unless two same-sex people want to get married or purchase a cake at a bakery? Someone clue me in on this. I’m lost here.