The name of this new division is “Division for Conscience and Religious Freedom”.
I can’t say this any better …
‘This entire scenario is surreal, it is chilling, for as I said, it opens doors to discrimination in every facet of our society, and against every group. This, my friends, is not what this nation is, not what it was ever intended to be. This is not a nation I recognize, as I have said more than once in the past year. This is not a nation in which I can any longer have even a degree of pride. Donald Trump promised to “make America great again”, but instead, he has made it terrible. Ruined it for people of true conscience, for humanitarians, for people who put others before themselves.’
Perhaps there is some confusion on the meanings of certain words and phrases. At the beginning of Trump’s ‘Reign of Bigotry’, Kellyanne Conway, referring to the number of people who attended the inauguration, introduced the term ‘alternative facts’. It would seem that now there is some general confusion, particularly among those tied to the Trump administration, about what words mean. Let us take a couple of examples:
Religious freedom: the freedom to practice and observe your religion of choice, or none at all, without interference.
Civil rights: the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
Conscience: an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior.
Of course, we can expand on these definitions, but these are the base, the foundation, and for the purpose of this conversation will serve quite nicely.
Donald Trump has once again found…
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