Sessions announces "Religious Liberty Task Force"

[Cyrano]

Give. Me. A. Fucking. Break. Sessions is now America's "Religion Czar."

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

[ck4829]

1. My religious views tell me I must be for the GLBTQ, for refugees, and that Black Lives Matter

Will Sessions defend me?

[Cyrano]

2. He'll burn a cross for you wearing his white sheet and hood

[Sherman A1]

3. Mine tells me that I should have

Freedom from religion.

[RKP5637]

5. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[unblock]

4. with god all things are legal, according to these *ssholes.

how long before they justify slavery? i mean, who is the federal government to intrude on a slaver's religious beliefs, right?

[Iliyah]

6. Not Salem witch hunts again?

[Cyrano]

8. Sessions wants a countrywide witch hunt

And he gets to define who the witches are

[Hortensis]

7. Grim, but good for civil rights attorneys, who'll

be fighting to reverse these infringements on the establishment and free exercise clauses for years.

[el_bryanto]

9. I am religious and attend church regularly

And hear this complaint regularly (and challenge it regularly) that religious groups are suffering persecution. I just don't see it - outside of those who practice Islam or Judaism who are genuinely persecuted at times. When you boil it down what they really want is the right to argue for denying freedoms to people who believe or act differently than they do.

Bryant

[Cyrano]

11. The Religious Right wants an American theocracy, period

Sessions is a certified wing nut and has been so his entire time in the Senate and now as AG. Any "plan" he has for the government to get involved in religion is just a disguise aimed at furthering the goal of the Religious Right.

[DFW]

10. Ayatollah Sessions has been misrespresenting us even since DeLay gerrymandered Martin Frost out

All I can say, is go Colin Allred!