David French on the “dangerous nothingness” of Trump’s Executive Order on Religious Liberty: It’s Worse Than Useless https://t.co/XMhJu1nO8Y
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) May 4, 2017
The religious liberty executive order is meaningless. No substantive protections for conscience. A betrayal. Ivanka and Jared won. We lost. https://t.co/Xn94KWTKPX
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) May 4, 2017
But I guess good news is that when the ACLU shuts down Catholic hospitals in 15 yrs, priests will be free to endorse Ivanka from the pulpit.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) May 4, 2017
UPDATE:
ACLU Will Not Sue Over Religious Freedom Executive Order
The ACLU announced yesterday that after careful review of President Trump’s new Executive Order on Free Speech and Religious Liberty, it has decided not to file suit. It said in part:
Today’s executive order signing was an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome. After careful review of the order’s text we have determined that the order does not meaningfully alter the ability of religious institutions or individuals to intervene in the political process. The order portends but does not yet do harm to the provision of reproductive health services.
President Trump’s prior assertion that he wished to ‘totally destroy’ the Johnson Amendment with this order has proven to be a textbook case of ‘fake news.’
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“Liberal education is concerned with the souls of men, and therefore has little or no use for machines … [it] consists in learning to listen to still and small voices and therefore in becoming deaf to loudspeakers.” (Leo Strauss)
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