Defending Religious Liberty for Real
The Dept of Justice to create Religious Liberty Task Force
In an effort to defend the first freedom
and push back against the war on Christians, Attorney General
Sessions announced the creation of an inter-agency task force
that will coordinate the Justice Department's efforts to promote
religious liberty. This was a follow up to the issuance of the
DOJ's memorandum providing guidance interpreting religious
liberty protections in federal law and was based on President's
Trump's Executive order (13798, § 4 May 4, 2017).
These
actions are in sharp contrast to the Obama Administration's
hostility to people of faith. His administration tried to force
religious entities to provide contraception coverage which
included oral abortifacients, held the position that Gay marriage
trumps religious liberty, opposed the well established right of
religious entities that provide government funded services to
hire based on faith and took numerous executive actions that
attempted to purge the Christian faith from the public arena.
While President Obama's bigotry against people of faith
is deeply troubling, his failure to take any action to stop the
religious cleansing of Christians in the Middle East was truly
the definition of evil. When people are brutally butchered for
their faith, the United States should take action. President
Obama did nothing. Even when they tried to seek refuge in
America, the Obama administration gave preference to other
groups.
President Trump took a bold step in ensuring
that people of faith are no longer marginalized by their own
government. Instead of viewing Christians as the enemy of a free
society, President Trump understands that the values of our
constitution reflect the Judeo-Christian faith of the founding
fathers who enshrined the freedoms for all Americans derived by
our Creator. How ironic is it that President Obama promoted
discrimination against the fundemental philosophy which itself
is the basis for the rights he was claiming to be fighting for.
Truth is a stubborn thing. Attempting to change or
redefine natural law cannot be accomplished by man;
"that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights". Not even a President.