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highplainsdem

(49,044 posts)
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:16 PM Feb 2017

Leaked Draft of Trump's Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination

https://www.thenation.com/article/leaked-draft-of-trumps-religious-freedom-order-reveals-sweeping-plans-to-legalize-discrimination/

A leaked copy of a draft executive order titled “Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom,” obtained by The Investigative Fund and The Nation, reveals sweeping plans by the Trump administration to legalize discrimination.

The four-page draft order, a copy of which is currently circulating among federal staff and advocacy organizations, construes religious organizations so broadly that it covers “any organization, including closely held for-profit corporations,” and protects “religious freedom” in every walk of life: “when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with Federal, State or local governments.”

The draft order seeks to create wholesale exemptions for people and organizations who claim religious or moral objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and trans identity, and it seeks to curtail women’s access to contraception and abortion through the Affordable Care Act. The White House did not respond to requests for comment, but when asked Monday about whether a religious freedom executive order was in the works, White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters, “I’m not getting ahead of the executive orders that we may or may not issue. There is a lot of executive orders, a lot of things that the president has talked about and will continue to fulfill, but we have nothing on that front now.”

Language in the draft document specifically protects the tax-exempt status of any organization that “believes, speaks, or acts (or declines to act) in accordance with the belief that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, sexual relations are properly reserved for such a marriage, male and female and their equivalents refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy, physiology, or genetics at or before birth, and that human life begins at conception and merits protection at all stages of life.”

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Squinch

(51,025 posts)
1. Next leaked order will concern itself with how to burn the ones who don't agree with him.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:19 PM
Feb 2017

Every one of his orders is leaked before it comes out. He's doing that purposely.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,878 posts)
2. I guess the concept of "religious freedom" does not include
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:20 PM
Feb 2017

the freedom not to be controlled by other people's religions.

uppityperson

(115,681 posts)
4. My first professional job interview, I was asked when I planned to marry and have babies
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:22 PM
Feb 2017

It was a rather wtf? None of your business! moment.

If this passes, they can do worse. Unconstitutional again!

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
5. Yup, the beating and rape of females of any age will be legal
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:39 PM
Feb 2017

because some asshole will figure out where in the bible it says it it gods will.

superpatriotman

(6,252 posts)
7. The boycott lists are going to be very long
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:43 PM
Feb 2017

Unless a executive order against boycotts is issued. - which I wouldn't discount!

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