Sessions announces 'religious liberty task force'

[MerryBlooms]

Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday announced the Department of Justice's creation of a "religious liberty task force" to "help the department fully implement our religious guidance."

In a speech at the Department of Justice's Religious Liberty Summit in Washington, Sessions said the goal of the task force will be protecting religious groups from persecution.

"The task force will help the department fully implement our religious liberty guidance by ensuring 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," Sessions said. "That includes making sure that our employees know their duties to accommodate people of faith."

Sessions cited "a dangerous movement" aimed toward stripping away the First Amendment right to freedom of religion as a basis for forming the new task force.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/30/politics/jeff-sessions-religious-liberty-task-force/index.html

Religious freedom as long as you're white and Christian.

[riversedge]

1. The only dangerous movement is from Sessions!!

...Sessions cited "a dangerous movement" aimed toward stripping away the First Amendment right to freedom of religion as a basis for forming the new task force.

"A dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom," Sessions said in his speech. "There can be no doubt. This is no little matter. It must be confronted and defeated."
This is not the first time Sessions promoted the idea of federal protections for religious groups.
Sessions issued a religious liberty memorandum following President Donald Trump's executive order in May 2017, which outlined how federal administrative agencies and executive departments should interpret federal law to protect religious groups.
In a memo released Monday morning, Sessions highlighted how the task force would implement the memorandum released last year.

[MerryBlooms]

4. I read the headline and my heart sank. This is a very bad turn for our nation. n/t

[Greywing]

7. +1,000,000 I am just sick to my stomach n/t

[msongs]

2. not only white. there are many right wing xtian groups that are black, latino, asian.

subsets of various ethnic groups share a bond for hatred for gays, people in other religions. maybe its republican outreach to fundies of all stripes

[rurallib]

3. start counting the days until this task force comes to the aid of Muslims

that are discriminated against in, say, employment.

[MerryBlooms]

6. This move is solely for their base of white evangelical types...

as has been the case for all the social policies this administration and GOP reps have been pushing.

[sanatanadharma]

5. As a white Hindu with a dead body to burn...

...I will be delighted, upon my death, to exercise my religious liberty by being lit-up on an open fire pyre at the city park river bank in town.
I am sure that other religion celebrations like weddings are allowed along the river park
No discrimination!