Jeff Sessions announces creation of "religious liberty task force"

[spanone]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced the creation of a "religious liberty task force" within the Department of Justice that will help protect religious communities across the U.S. from discrimination. Sessions made the announcement Monday at the Department of Justice's Religious Liberty Summit in Washington, D.C.

"The task force will help the department fully implement our religious liberty guidance by assuring that all Justice Department components...are upholding that guidance in the cases they bring and defend, the arguments they make in court, the policies and regulations they adopt, and how we conduct our operations. That includes making sure our employees know their duties to accommodate people of faith," Sessions said.

"As the people in this room know, you have to practice what you preach," he continued. "We are also going to remain in contact with religious groups across America to ensure that their rights are being protected. We have been holding listening sessions and we will continue to host them in the coming weeks."

Conservative groups immediately praised Sessions for promising to protect deeply held religious convictions, though Trump administration critics have repeatedly voiced concerns that the attorney general's stance undercuts LGBT rights and favors the rights of Christians over those of other faiths.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeff-sessions-religious-liberty-task-force-announced/

[LuckyCharms]

1. Jesus Christ, Sessions. n/t

[spanone]

2. the theocracy marches forward

unless your Muslim, of course.

[Matthew28]

3. So he can attack

the freedoms of other people.

All for what? For a myth or a belief system that is based on nothing.

[Bettie]

4. So, he's going to address the imaginary

concerns of Evangelicals and ignore or curtail the religious freedom of everyone else.

Well, and work on eroding civil rights by saying that Right Wing Christians have a right to refuse anything to anyone based on their "deeply held religious beliefs".

Think that about covers it.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

5. Religion kills.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. Maybe he can get some ideas from Iran.

Although Iran's Constitution states that "the investigation of individuals' beliefs is forbidden" and that "no one may be molested or taken to task simply for holding a certain belief," the adherents of religions not specifically protected under the Constitution do not enjoy freedom of activity. Religious activity is monitored closely by the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance and by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).

Do we really think that Sessions' "religious liberty task force" is going to be concerned with the freedoms of any religion except for Christianity, and fundamentalist Christianity to be specific.

[walkingman]

7. Thanks Christians for this continuious "Shitshow"

[Solly Mack]

8. Christian Theocrats R Sessions

Legalizing attacking everyone else while they play the victim.

[spanone]

10. Disgusting beings

[uponit7771]

9. Sounds like you they'll be fighting for a lot of Muslim in Jewish causes