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To: Brumar89 who wrote (946)	10/7/2017 4:01:09 PM
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Jeff Sessions Issues Epic Guidance To Department Of Justice On Religious Liberty Posted at 12:30 pm on October 7, 2017 by streiff Yesterday, Department of Health and Human Services released new regulations on ObamaCare. Where the old regulations forced health plans for Catholic nuns to pay for birth control pills, the new regulations allow religious employers and employers with religious objection to contraception to not provide that coverage in health plans. What slipped under the radar was a pair of letters issued by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on how Department of Justice will handle religious liberty cases. The directions implements President Trump’s executive order on religious liberty. It is game changing. The preface, alone, moves the federal government in correct direction. The Obama administration had focused on creating “freedom of worship” as the standard for the nation. Under this cribbed interpretation, your right to worship would not be at jeopardy but you were in legal jeopardy if you actually acted upon the beliefs central to that worship. So a Catholic hospital could be forced to perform abortions. A religious-based adoption agency would be forced to place children in morally objectionable homes. I’m going to list a few of the guiding principles, but you really should take time to read the whole letter. The free exercise of religion includes the right to act or abstain from action in accordance with one’s religious beliefs. The freedom of religion extends to persons and organizations. Americans do not give up their freedom of religion by participating in the marketplace, partaking of the public square, or interacting with government. Government may not restrict acts or abstentions because of the beliefs they display. Government may not offically favor or disfavor particular religious groups. Bovernment may not interfere with the autonomy of a religious organization. Religious employers are entitled to employ only persons whose beliefs and conduct are consistent with the employers’ religious precepts. As a general matter, the federal government may not condition receipt of a federal grant or contract on the effective relinquishment of a religious organization’s hiring exemptions or attributes of its religious character. This is all great stuff and it is a shame that the Attorney General has to spell out in detail what the First Amendment takes for granted. The left is portraying this all as a freedom to discriminate. This is nonsense and the complaining is based solely upon the way the left as used the special rights they see as being owed to homosexuals, etc., as a battering ram to drive religion and religious people and groups out public life. In the words of Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput: Evil talks about tolerance only when it’s weak. When it gains the upper hand, its vanity always requires the destruction of the good and the innocent, because the example of good and innocent lives is an ongoing witness against it. So it always has been. So it always will be. This letter is accompanied by a policy directive that tells US attorneys to ensure the position they take in any case adheres to these principles, to the extent of changing the position taken by Justice under Obama, and it directs that all proposed federal rules be screened for adherence to these principles. TRENDING California has Made Misgendering Someone with Improper Pronouns a Jailable Offense Brandon Morse A final note, back in April a lot of anti-Trumpers were insisting that the Trump administration was abandoning religious liberty. At that time, the Trump administration was delaying one of the ObamaCare contraception mandate cases and the anti-Trumpers were calling the delay a retreat. I, and several others, disagreed about what was happening. I don’t think Trump is a particularly religious guy and I have my doubts that religion will ever play a significant role in his life in the future having played none in the past. But I don’t care. Emperor Constantine was only baptized shortly before his death but his patronage of Christianity was invaluable. I don’t need a pastor as president, just a president who doesn’t treat religion with hostility. This letter by the attorney general is a major victory for religious freedom, and if that is important to you, no matter how you feel about President Trump, you should give some credit where it is due. redstate Yeah, yeah, this is wonderful. BUT let's not forget EVERYTHING in Trump's EO and Session's letter will be immediately overturned when a Democrat enters the Oval Office again. This should all be accompanied by legislation, not just something easily overturned. Laws are much harder to change. You need both houses and the President to do it. Republicans control both houses of Congress and such legislation COULD be passed now. An historic opportunity is being passed up.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (946)	10/20/2017 1:15:24 PM
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Hollywood Confirms Plans To Continue Saying Conservatives Hate Women October 17, 2017 HOLLYWOOD, CA—A panel of Hollywood elites issued a statement Tuesday reassuring the American public that the entertainment industry will continue claiming that conservatives are the ones who hate women, despite its own prominent, far-left members currently being embroiled in multiple sexual scandals against females which seem to permeate industry-wide. While many have grown concerned that liberal celebrities would lose the moral high ground in the midst of the ongoing sexual assault and harassment scandals rocking the industry, a team of Hollywood producers, directors, and actors confidently confirmed they would continue to virtue signal and shame anyone who disagrees with them. “Don’t worry—the second the Weinstein scandal fades from the news cycle, it’ll be business as usual here in Tinseltown,” Matt Damon told reporters, speaking on behalf of the industry. “We plan on hitting Republicans, the religious right, and conservatives as hard as ever, despite our obvious hypocrisy.” “This whole Weinstein business hasn’t slowed us down one bit,” Ben Affleck, speaking alongside Damon, assured the public. They further relayed Hollywood’s plans to keep on employing language like “anti-women,” “sexist,” “the war on women,” and “the right hates women,” when referring to social conservatives’ differing opinions on abortion and health care, despite the recent revelation that wealthy, powerful, vocally liberal members in the upper echelons of Hollywood culture have been objectifying, bribing, blackmailing, and assaulting women for years with widespread complicity in the industry, while at the same time painting themselves as champions of women’s rights, sources confirmed. babylonbee.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (946)	10/20/2017 1:29:38 PM
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Morally Bankrupt Entertainment Industry Totally Baffled As To How Culture Became Morally Bankrupt October 14, 2017 HOLLYWOOD, CA—In the wake of the recent Harvey Weinstein scandal sending shockwaves through Hollywood, the nation’s elite members of the entertainment industry have expressed their puzzlement at the fact that the country has fallen so far in morality and ethics, when the very same people have created and promoted entertainment that celebrates moral bankruptcy, sources confirmed. Directors, actors, writers, and producers who have profited off disgusting, repulsive works that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago all voiced their shock at the fact that Weinstein’s behavior could go unchecked for so long, in addition to expressing incredulity at the nation’s indifference to President Trump’s total lack of moral character. Particularly outspoken on the nation’s morality was Steve Pink, director of Hot Tub Time Machine 2, who blasted the country for its lack of ethics, respect, and dignity. “How did it get like this? How could we possibly have elected a reality TV star as our president?” one prominent director of reality TV shows said in an interview Friday evening. “I just don’t understand how reality TV’s empty values could possibly have infiltrated our society.” ...... babylonbee