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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 16:22:26 GMT
"... He asserted that "nuns were being forced to buy contraceptives" -- an apparent, though not fully accurate, reference to an Obama administration health care policy meant to ensure women covered by faith-based groups' health plans have access to cost-free contraceptives. Religious groups that challenged the policy argued it violated their beliefs.
The Supreme Court opted in 2016 to not resolve that dispute, asking lower courts to take another look in search of a compromise.
Sessions also objected to members of Congress asking judicial and executive branch nominees about their religious dogma. And he praised a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple in a case that reached the Supreme Court and ended in his favor this year. That baker, Jack Phillips, was part of a panel discussion at the Justice Department summit.
"Let's be frank: A dangerous movement, undetected by many but real, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom. There can be no doubt. It's no little matter. It must be confronted intellectually and politically and defeated," Sessions said. "This election, this past election, and much that has flowed from it, gives us a rare opportunity to arrest these trends and to confront them.
"Such a reversal will not just be done with electoral victories, however, but by intellectual victories," he added.
Sessions, a Methodist and former Republican senator from Alabama, has made protecting religious liberty a cornerstone agenda item of his Justice Department -- along with defending freedom of speech on college campuses."
www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/sessions_a_dangerous_movement.html
Can someone tell me why bald-face lying is ok, necessary, and Christian?
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Post by thefleetsin on Jul 31, 2018 16:28:23 GMT
the religious among us have never been able to live and let live.
they revel in this busy body mentality, surrounding themselves with like-minded neanderthals who actually believe a spirit entity is controlling everything that takes place in the world. which makes it even more bizarre that they have to intervene in the first place.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Jul 31, 2018 17:27:07 GMT
"... He asserted that "nuns were being forced to buy contraceptives" -- an apparent, though not fully accurate, reference to an Obama administration health care policy meant to ensure women covered by faith-based groups' health plans have access to cost-free contraceptives. Religious groups that challenged the policy argued it violated their beliefs.
The Supreme Court opted in 2016 to not resolve that dispute, asking lower courts to take another look in search of a compromise.
Sessions also objected to members of Congress asking judicial and executive branch nominees about their religious dogma. And he praised a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple in a case that reached the Supreme Court and ended in his favor this year. That baker, Jack Phillips, was part of a panel discussion at the Justice Department summit.
"Let's be frank: A dangerous movement, undetected by many but real, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom. There can be no doubt. It's no little matter. It must be confronted intellectually and politically and defeated," Sessions said. "This election, this past election, and much that has flowed from it, gives us a rare opportunity to arrest these trends and to confront them.
"Such a reversal will not just be done with electoral victories, however, but by intellectual victories," he added.
Sessions, a Methodist and former Republican senator from Alabama, has made protecting religious liberty a cornerstone agenda item of his Justice Department -- along with defending freedom of speech on college campuses."
www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/sessions_a_dangerous_movement.html
Can someone tell me why bald-face lying is ok, necessary, and Christian? As an ex-Christian, I can tell you that the ends justify the means. If it draws more people into their group that are "saved", then a little lying is forgivable. 'The Lord works in mysterious ways'. The Lord must've been on multiple street drugs when He chose Trump to further His cause. He wised up and threw Pence in for good measure. The bottom line is that it is about control and money. What they don't get is that religious freedom means that you are free to believe how you see fit, but you are NOT free to impose your beliefs on others. And it is to be kept OUT of state affairs; separation of church and state. That runs afoul of their desire to control others.
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