On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a “Religious Liberty Task Force” that will enforce a 2017 DOJ memo ordering federal agencies to take the broadest possible interpretation of “religious liberty” when enforcing federal laws. That memo, for example, prohibits the IRS from threatening the tax-exempt status of any religious organization that actively lobbied on behalf of a political candidate, which is not allowed under the Johnson Amendment.
They spit, pee and vomit on our Constitution. Yet they want to castigate peaceful, lawful protests of taking a knee when the anthem is played at football games.
My shock has rendered me wordless beyond what Inhave just said.
My conservative friends, who support Trump, think I am crazy, when I worry about a theocracy. They seem to think that because it is Christian, it is fine. They will be singing a different tune if they are the wrong kind of Christian, but they don't see it. Welcome to the Reformation.