Jeff Sessions is installing 'religious freedom' czars in every U.S. Attorneys office
Source: LGBTQ Nation
By Jeff Taylor · Wednesday, February 7, 2018
The Trump administration is continuing its efforts to give a license to discriminate under the guise of religious liberty, placing a religious liberty czar throughout the entirety of the U.S. Attorneys offices.
Changes have been quietly made to the policy manuals for U.S. Attorneys offices and Department of Justice litigation offices, once again hoisting the concerns of the religious freedom crowd. Those offices will now have to assign a member of staff to monitor litigation and inform their political appointee higher-ups when so-called religious freedom comes up in any suit as a part of the complaint or defense.
The change also requires U.S. Attorneys and litigation offices to seek the approval of the Associate Attorney General, Trump appointee Rachel Brand, before they can proceed with any such case.
To the greatest extent practicable and permitted by law, Department components and United States Attorneys Offices must reasonably accommodate religious observance and practice in all activities, including litigation, the policy now reads.
Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/02/jeff-sessions-installing-religious-freedom-czars-every-u-s-attorneys-office
bucolic_frolic
(44,050 posts)a marriage of stupidity and oppression
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Right?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)And it's something that I can actually remember with my leaky memory
catbyte
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LiberalArkie
(15,766 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)There will be NO protesting at that parade. Mark my words.
forgotmylogin
(7,565 posts)J_William_Ryan
(1,789 posts)Wounded Bear
(59,046 posts)world wide wally
(21,762 posts)JunkYardDogg
(873 posts)Religious Liberty is Religious Coercion and Tyranny
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Repeat it:
#Religious Liberty is Religious Coercion and Tyranny
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)The truth is, the government already does. In many ways they bend over backwards to allow religious liberty. The problem here isn't that they want religious liberty, they want religious PRIVILEGE. And of course this will predominately play out as CHRISTIAN religious privilege.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,629 posts)I bet the Trumpistas don't see the irony of their actions. Next he'll install a Political Officer in each office to insure all actions conform with the Trump ideology.
Thanks to Frank Luntz, it's something GWB did, especially with the science offices -- it's why we use "climate change" rather than "global warming." Trump doesn't believe in climate change at all, so that's why we pulled out of the Paris accords and have policies that favor fossil fuels over renewables.
Yavin4
(35,524 posts)Remember their complete meltdown:
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)............unfriend.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)EVERY FUCKING DAY IT'S SOMETHING
Vinca
(50,406 posts)bluestarone
(17,373 posts)take the state out of our government huh? them assholes!!!
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)bring DOJ Action for having to listen to Preachers before high school games ?????
Initech
(100,387 posts)I'd love to tell them where they can shove their pathetic, hatemongering excuse for a religion!
paleotn
(18,169 posts)nothing more. This isn't about "freedom." Certainly not from a crowd who doesn't even know what it means. This is meant purely to shove their version of the official myth on the rest of us.
kairos12
(13,060 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,813 posts)allows religion into our politics (it shouldn't be in there at all...church/state) too much and that our country is hypocritical. We ALLOW this to happen...RELIGION IS A CHOICE!
louis-t
(23,371 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)We're way down the rabbit hole.......and still falling!!!
samnsara
(17,740 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,244 posts)Jeff Sessions and other cons HACKED our elections
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)"I trafficked in narcotics because of my religion."
"I robbed a bank because Jesus told me to."
"I colluded with Russians because, you know, religious freedom."
A whole new affirmative defense.
BumRushDaShow
(131,773 posts)and then shoved them aside. Poppy courted and gave those people lip service and then shoved them aside. Shrub courted and gave those people lip service and then shoved them aside.
Now Drumpf not only courted those people, but he has now unleashed a crowd of them that has been pent up in Pandora's box for almost 40 years... and have let them run amok through the government.
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,321 posts)Turbineguy
(37,561 posts)in the 1984 sense.