The mixed reviews of President Trump's religious liberty executive order reflect two simple facts. First, by itself the order doesn't do or change much.[...]
This piece was co-authored by Emmett McGroarty, a senior fellow at the American Principles Project.[...]
President Trump's executive order on religious liberty was an important first step. It was impressive to see the President today voice support for religious freedom and hugging the Little Sisters of the Poor in the Rose Garden.
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This morning at a conference in the White House Rose Garden with conservative and religious leaders, President Trump unveiled and signed an executive order on religious freedom that he says fulfills many of his campaign promises to be a champion of religious freedom. But many social conservative leaders are slamming today’s order as “meaningless,” or worse, “harmful.”[...]
Today, the House of Representatives voted to defund Planned Parenthood by passing the American Health Care Act, Republicans’ replacement plan for the disastrous Obamacare.[...]
Last week, DNC Chairman Tom Perez made headlines for a statement suggesting pro-life Democrats ought to be ousted from the party, so that Democrats could maintain a single message. Some responded with outrage, like former pro-life Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak, who said that the chairman should “take a hike” and that he “has no business being the head of our party.”[...]
It seems impossible, but the board that controls 15 Catholic psychiatric hospitals owned by the Brothers of Charity in Belgium has just agreed to help kill patients because of "unbearable suffering."[...]
Today House Democrats reintroduced the so-called "Equality Act," a bill written by the radical LGBT lobby which would restrict religious freedom and the freedom of association in favor of creating special privileges for certain people based on subjective classifications, such as sexual orientation and gender identity.[...]
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos just can’t seem to avoid making misleading statements on Common Core.[...]