Does this mean religious persecution is legal practice now? I haven’t seen or read anything on the exact law he’s suppose to sign tomorrow but if he does I’m assuming the most obvious thing it does is allow bigots to use religion as a weapon to assault others. IE: White conservative women decides her christian beliefs forbid her from selling cakes to homosexuals. Anyone can say they believe something but to go as far to allow people’s beliefs to overrule basic liberties is non sense.
I guess I should start my own gynecology center and discriminate against conservative, white, women or anyone who voted for a republican president in the past 17 years. That’d be completely legal under this new executive order right? Just say it’s my religious belief to not do business with rightwinged extremists or traditional conservative women. The same way they can argue that against homosexuals, I can do the same thing right?
Can’t wait to see this on the news. Triggered republican corperatist’s wife isn’t allowed to receive medical treatment because she’s a women, white, or republican.
Cue the republicans infuriated that the president was ignoring the law for the sake of DACA. I expect them to show up at about the same time any a member of the freedom caucus shows real concern that any of their constituents are going to die without healthcare, or alternatively about the same time Steven Bannon proves he is not actually satan.
I’m thinking of forming a new church – “The Ecumenical/Omni-Faith Church of Trump is a Whiny Little Bitch” – open to anyone of faith or not, with weekly sermons on how our current President and his fellow travelers are a bunch of partisan incompetent hacks. Think the IRS will let us be a 501-c3?
So-called Religious Liberty laws allow legal standing for religious issues and prevent state challenges. Citizens United allows money from any source. Now Trump encourages political promotion from the pulpit.
The Republican party will grasp at any straw to attain single party rule. Pence and Trump are making a lot of God talk. It will draw votes, but it will also produce a backlash against organized religions.
As it turns out, the leaked draft was not the final version. The actual version seems like a nothingburger. I guess you can’t even trust the leaked drafts in the age of Trump.
I love the fact that the EO directs the IRS not to take action against non-profits who violate the Johnson Amendment. The President has issued an order directing his government not to enforce the law.
Wasn’t that the root cause of unhappiness for Republicans with so many of President Obama’s orders?
You missed the key point about enforcement discretion. Apparently the Trump administration plans on looking the other way when religious groups donate money to political causes or take other political actions. But I’m guessing that religious groups that try to support the wrong political causes will have the laws enforced.
The only operative language says that Treasury won’t “take any adverse action against any individual, house of worship, or other religious organization on the basis that such individual or organization speaks or has spoken about moral or political issues from a religious perspective, **where speech of similar character has, consistent with law, not ordinarily been treated as participation or intervention in a political campaign **on behalf of (or in opposition to) a candidate for public office by the Department of the Treasury.”
IOW, we’re going to keep following the same customary rules we’ve been following.
