Urgent: Ask Pres. Trump to stand for religious liberty
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
We have to act now!
Liberals and homosexual activists are advancing their radical
agenda by attempting to torpedo President Donald Trump's executive order on
religious liberty that was recently leaked to the media. This is an excellent
executive order that will protect your First Amendment rights.
I urge you
to sign the AFA petition NOW asking President Trump to protect religious
freedom for all Americans. I plan to personally deliver
this petition with signatures during a meeting with the Trump Administration.
Help me take your voice to the White House!
This is urgent! After the executive order was leaked, radical
activists demanded that the White House keep in place the policy implemented by
President Obama’s executive order. The Obama policy bans federal contractors
from funding if they refuse to change their non-discrimination policies to
include homosexuals and “transgender” persons.
If Christians remain silent and do not let President Trump know
they stand with him on religious liberty, then the only voices he will hear are
those of radical homosexual activists.
Why should we stand with President Trump and sign the petition?
First, the executive order that was leaked represents excellent public policy
that would accomplish several good things. (See list below.) Second, President
Trump campaigned on the promise to protect and preserve our religious liberty,
which was undermined by the Obama Administration. Third, Mr. Trump has given
strong indications he will keep his word by having already signed an executive
order banning federal funding of Planned Parenthood International and nominated
a conservative, constitutional judge to the Supreme Court.
If President Trump signs this executive order, then it will be a
clear indication that he was sincere when he said at the National Prayer
Breakfast, "my administration will do everything in its power to defend
and protect religious liberty."
The religious freedom executive order under consideration by the
Trump Administration:
- Protects Christian colleges and universities, which
maintain biblical views on sexuality, marriage, and gender, from losing
federal funds.
- Follows the long standing Religious Freedom Restoration
Act (RFRA) that states religious exercise "includes all aspects of
religious observance and practice."
- Instructs all federal agencies, "to the greatest
extent practicable and permitted by law," to reasonably accommodate
the religion of federal employees, as required by Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
- Instructs the Departments of Health and Human Services,
Labor, and the Treasury to grant relief to the Little Sisters of the Poor
and others that are not exempt from the Obamacare contraception mandate.
- Instructs the Department of Health and Human Services to
ensure the federal government does not discriminate against the religious
beliefs of child-welfare providers such as foster care and adoption
services.
- Instructs all federal agencies to provide protections
and exemptions consistent with the Civil Rights Act and Americans with
Disabilities Act to religious organizations that either contract with or
receive grants from the federal government.
- Instructs the U.S. Treasury not to revoke the
non-profit tax status because a religious organization's ordinary religious
speech deals with politics, or because they speak or act on the belief
that marriage is the union of husband and wife, that sex is based on
immutable biology, or that life begins at conception.
The President has the legal authority to instruct agencies of
the federal government to respect the First Amendment rights of all Americans.
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