Are we free or afraid
Of what we’re told
Are we out of or under
Control
– Jack Johnson, in Don’t Believe a Thing I Say
So now we have a Ministry of Religious Liberty.
Oh – my bad. Attorney General Jeff Sessions created a Religious Liberty Task Force this week – although the effort was really launched in October 2017, when Sessions issued a Memorandum to All Executive Departments and Agencies on Federal Law Protections for Religious Liberty that largely flew under the radar until the announcement of the task force on July 30.
The October memo outlines “twenty key principles of religious liberty in U.S. law” and provides direction to agencies in four areas: employment, rule making, enforcement and contracting/grant making. The twenty key principles (you can read them all in the link) include things like:
If we were great, our politicians would put country over party; if we were great, we would have a healthy opposition demanding electoral reform; if we were great, we would have healthcare for all and not let people die simply because they don’t have enough money; if we were great, the wealthy would not have such an inordinate influence on our politics; if we were great, over 30,000 people wouldn’t die from guns each year; and if we were great, we would not have a white supremacist and habitual dissembler as president. Ross Rosenfeld, 
“We’re left heartbroken yet again in the wake of deadly acts of violence against police and our fellow citizens. Our hearts go out to the loved ones of all those whose lives were taken.” said a note from Change.org that I found in my mailbox.
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