President Trump Signs Executive Order Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty(w/Video&EO)

The Conservative Treehouse ^ | May 4, 2017 | Sundance

[bobsunshine]

Earlier today President Trump signed an executive order promoting speech and religious liberty during a ceremony in the Rose Garden:

[bobsunshine]

Watch the Video - THIS IS HISTORIC - Better than some other "news". This is Front Page because it's so important and the Media is ignoring. Wonderful Video and how "done to earth" President Trump is when he is speaking from the heart. Also watch when he calls on the Little Sisters of the Poor - Funny

[RitaOK]

OH, WOW! 2020, here we come! RE-ELECTION on glass shards, for sure, but this is a sure winner.

[dp0622]

This is great.

Won’t please those who hate him no matter what.

I had ONE Trump Hater tell me

“It would have been better if Hillary won because the republicans in congress would have fought harder”

FOUGHT HARDER!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!

With a straight face!!!!!

He was actually getting me a little down on Trump to that point and that comment snapped me out of it. :)

Incredible.

[Sacajaweau]

Finally, back to basics....Religious Freedom

[Redleg Duke]

And the ACLU has already announce plans to sue.

[dsrtsage]

Democrats Outraged

[pcottraux]

After the disappointment of the budget compromise, it’s nice to get back to WINNING again!!!

[Berlin_Freeper]

"These Are Days"

[bobsunshine]

I assume everyone knows that Trump has already filed with the FEC for 2020. He did this I think either the day or day after his inauguration.

[seastay]

This should not apply to mosques, or other organizations funded by foreign governments with the intent to over throw the constitution .. it may be a bit short sighted regarding this issue, but radical muslims who have been building and hiding behind their mosques, to now allow them to come out openly and not pretend anymore that jihad is an article of faith, but a political ideology of conquest does not sound like a good idea.

[RitaOK]

Thank you for the reminder. I needed my recollection ignited.

[Coronal]

Long on flash, short on substance.

[DarthVader]

But Ben Shapiro says this is all BS and smoke & mirrors!! The NT crowd shows their ugly head.

[Secret Agent Man]

ACLU will file against this in the 9th circus later today.

[SandRat]

That’s poking the ACLU and SLC right in the Eye!

[Organic Panic]

The libs are freaking out already. I don’t recall the ACLU and libs freaking out when Obama sent Holder to churches to train them how to agitate and still keep their tax exempt status.

[DSH]

No, it's not just the "Never Trumpers." The leftwing Anti-Trumpers -- the ones who have actually read the Executive Order and are capable of understanding what it says -- are thrilled to find that it is, legally-speaking, essentially meaningless.

This, from Georgetown law professor Marty Lederman, writing at the "TakeCare" blog:

"It is entirely hortatory, and does even less than the White House's modest roll-out last night suggested. Indeed, it appears to do nothing at all, other than to require three federal agencies to "consider issuing amended regulations, consistent with applicable law, to address conscience-based objections to the preventive-care mandate promulgated under section 300gg-13(a)(4) of title 42, United States Code."

"Section 2 is the provision about the Johnson Amendment (which I discussed in detail this morning). It does not even direct the IRS to exercise “maximum enforcement discretion to alleviate the burden of the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits religious leaders from speaking about politics and candidates from the pulpit,” as last night's White Paper suggested. Instead, it merely states that 'the Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure, to the extent permitted by law, that the Department of the Treasury does not 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.'

"In other words, it merely requires that the governement apply the Johnson Amendment to churches in the same way that it applies that law to other 501(c)(3) organizations. And because the Johnson Amendment also requires the leaders of those nonreligious organizations not to engage in partisan political activity in their speech activities--as a condition of entitlement to 501(c)(3)'s tax benefits--this Executive Order does not even (at least not on its face) suggest that the IRS should not enforce the Johnson Amendment as to candidate-specific speech in churches, or from pulpits. Moreover, as I note in my earlier post, the IRS does not ordinarily take steps against churches even in such cases; accordingly, the effect of this section of the E.O. appears to be . . . zero. Turned out to be a big nuthin'.

"No wonder so many of the President's supporters are so disappointed. In this case, we should be thankful that cooler heads--and good lawyers--in the Administration appear to have prevailed."

https://takecareblog.com/blog/this-executive-order-on-religion-is-thankfully-a-dud

[MomwithHope]

Btt

[Sam Gamgee]

Wait. What. They don’t like freedom of speech? Or religious freedom?

[SisterK]

My concern also - But who will define islam as a war plan?