Posted on 05/04/2017 11:51:17 AM PDT by bobsunshine
OH, WOW! 2020, here we come! RE-ELECTION on glass shards, for sure, but this is a sure winner.
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.
Finally, back to basics....Religious Freedom
And the ACLU has already announce plans to sue.
Democrats Outraged
After the disappointment of the budget compromise, it’s nice to get back to WINNING again!!!
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.
Thank you for the reminder. I needed my recollection ignited.
Long on flash, short on substance.
But Ben Shapiro says this is all BS and smoke & mirrors!! The NT crowd shows their ugly head.
ACLU will file against this in the 9th circus later today.
That’s poking the ACLU and SLC right in the Eye!
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.
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
Btt
Wait. What. They don’t like freedom of speech? Or religious freedom?
My concern also - But who will define islam as a war plan?
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