2 Corinthians 3:17
"Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the Religious Liberty Commission to safeguard and promote America’s founding principle of religious freedom..jpg)
The Religious Liberty Commission will be comprised of a Chairman and Vice Chairman designated by the President, ex officio government officials, and additional members from diverse religious and professional backgrounds, including clergy, legal experts, academics, and public advocates.
The Commission is tasked with producing a comprehensive report on the foundations of religious liberty in America, strategies to increase awareness of and celebrate America’s peaceful religious pluralism, current threats to religious liberty, and strategies to preserve and enhance protections for future generations.
Key focus areas include parental rights in religious education, school choice, conscience protections, attacks on houses of worship, free speech for religious entities, and institutional autonomy.
The Commission will advise the White House Faith Office and the Domestic Policy Council on religious-liberty policies and recommend executive or legislative actions to protect these freedoms.
Advisory boards of religious leaders, lay leaders, and legal experts will provide specialized guidance as subcomponents of the commission.
President Trump is addressing emerging threats to religious liberty to ensure Americans can freely practice their faith without government interference.
The United States Constitution enshrines the fundamental right to religious liberty in the First Amendment.
Recent federal and state policies have undermined this right by targeting conscience protections, preventing parents from sending their children to religious schools, threatening funding and non-profit status for faith-based entities, and excluding religious groups from government programs.
The previous administration’s Department of Justice targeted peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses.
This Commission will investigate and recommend policies to restore and safeguard religious liberty for all Americans.
Since returning to office, President Trump has signed several executive actions to strengthen religious liberty, including marshaling all Federal resources to combat the explosion of antisemitism on college campuses and in the streets since October 7, 2023, establishing a White House Faith Office to bring faith leaders from across the nation to the table and ensure their voices are heard at the highest levels of our government, and creating the “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias” at the Department of Justice to end the anti-Christian weaponization of government and unlawful targeting of Christians.
Frequent readers will recall that, during the Biden Administration, the FBI and the “Department of Justice” targeted pro-life advocates for criminal prosecution, as well as parents who objected to trans and woke propaganda at school board meetings. The FBI even developed a program to send informants to conservative Catholic churches, such as Latin mass churches. The Biden DOJ also pursued criminal charges against a physician who revealed that the Texas Children’s Hospital was continuing to perform sexual mutilation surgeries on minors, despite having claimed to have terminated those procedures.
The commission will be chaired by Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan.jpg)
Patrick. Ben Carson, a Seventh-day Adventist who served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during President Trump’s first term, will serve as vice chair.
Also on the commission is Kelly Shackelford, the CEO of First Liberty, a Plano-based conservative legal organization that represented Seventh-day Adventist physician and lay pastor Eric Walsh, who was wrongfully terminated from a public health position in Georgia, after having lost a similar position in Pasadena, California, for noting, in a sermon delivered at the Altadena SDA Church, that the Bible condemns sodomy and sodomites."
"Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the Religious Liberty Commission to safeguard and promote America’s founding principle of religious freedom.
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The Commission is tasked with producing a comprehensive report on the foundations of religious liberty in America, strategies to increase awareness of and celebrate America’s peaceful religious pluralism, current threats to religious liberty, and strategies to preserve and enhance protections for future generations.
Key focus areas include parental rights in religious education, school choice, conscience protections, attacks on houses of worship, free speech for religious entities, and institutional autonomy.
The Commission will advise the White House Faith Office and the Domestic Policy Council on religious-liberty policies and recommend executive or legislative actions to protect these freedoms.
Advisory boards of religious leaders, lay leaders, and legal experts will provide specialized guidance as subcomponents of the commission.
President Trump is addressing emerging threats to religious liberty to ensure Americans can freely practice their faith without government interference.
The United States Constitution enshrines the fundamental right to religious liberty in the First Amendment.
Recent federal and state policies have undermined this right by targeting conscience protections, preventing parents from sending their children to religious schools, threatening funding and non-profit status for faith-based entities, and excluding religious groups from government programs.
The previous administration’s Department of Justice targeted peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses.
This Commission will investigate and recommend policies to restore and safeguard religious liberty for all Americans.
Since returning to office, President Trump has signed several executive actions to strengthen religious liberty, including marshaling all Federal resources to combat the explosion of antisemitism on college campuses and in the streets since October 7, 2023, establishing a White House Faith Office to bring faith leaders from across the nation to the table and ensure their voices are heard at the highest levels of our government, and creating the “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias” at the Department of Justice to end the anti-Christian weaponization of government and unlawful targeting of Christians.
Frequent readers will recall that, during the Biden Administration, the FBI and the “Department of Justice” targeted pro-life advocates for criminal prosecution, as well as parents who objected to trans and woke propaganda at school board meetings. The FBI even developed a program to send informants to conservative Catholic churches, such as Latin mass churches. The Biden DOJ also pursued criminal charges against a physician who revealed that the Texas Children’s Hospital was continuing to perform sexual mutilation surgeries on minors, despite having claimed to have terminated those procedures.
The commission will be chaired by Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan
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Also on the commission is Kelly Shackelford, the CEO of First Liberty, a Plano-based conservative legal organization that represented Seventh-day Adventist physician and lay pastor Eric Walsh, who was wrongfully terminated from a public health position in Georgia, after having lost a similar position in Pasadena, California, for noting, in a sermon delivered at the Altadena SDA Church, that the Bible condemns sodomy and sodomites."
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