the order is just as notable for what it omits as for what it reportedly includes. While the Johnson Amendment is important, its threat to religious freedom pales in comparison to the comprehensive assault on religious organizations on federally funded campuses, the threats to the religious freedom of Christian educational institutions, and the attack on the rights of conscience of dissenters from the new orthodoxies on marriage, the family, and even the definition of male and female. What will the administration do to protect religious freedom when the entire cultural Left mobilizes against it? We still don’t know.
The vagueness of it makes it insultingly useless.
The vagueness of it makes it insultingly useless...
Never forget the time a gal told me that. Most embarrassing night of my life :)
It is the Johnson Amendment which instigated all of the assaults on religion. Without that, religious institutions could defend themselves in the political arena. Right now, they can’t.
This Executive Order is a very good way to enter religious liberty and the Johnson Amendment back into the political and social narrative. It’s a first step and it has people talking about it. . .i.e., it worked.
Then that’s stupid as hell. Every indicator is Trump will do more than anyone to addtess all of these. French belongs in the nation he is named after.