Thank God for President Trump, Who is Upholding the Free Speech Rights of Pro-Life Christians

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Thank God for President Trump, Who is Upholding the Free Speech Rights of Pro-Life Christians

Father Frank Pavone   Jul 31, 2018   |   6:14PM    Washington, DC

The Trump administration is at it again, praise God!

On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department of Justice launched a Religious Liberty Task Force at a summit for religious freedom. The goal of the task force is to implement the religious liberty guidance, a result of an executive order issued by President Trump in May of 2017.

The President’s 2017 executive order declared that “it is the policy of the administration to protect and vigorously promote religious liberty.” It also “directs the IRS to use maximum enforcement discretion to alleviate the burden of the Johnson Amendment.” (The ominous and elusive threat of losing a tax-exempt status has been a giant thorn in the side of nonprofits, and has provided a big excuse for cowardly churches to be quiet about many issues that matter). Finally, it “provides regulatory relief for religious objectors to Obamacare’s burdensome preventive services mandate.”

Although the media criticized this executive order as big “nothing burger,” it was actually very meaningful to Priests for Life after our Supreme Court battle against the Obama- era HHS mandate. The mandate would have coerced our Catholic pro-life organization to act against our religious beliefs. President Trump’s order protects us from any future attempts at forcing religious organizations to provide coverage for abortifacients and contraceptives through health insurance.

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