While he’s made some strides on protecting Catholic conscience, Trump’s record on preserving religious freedom at large remains up for debate. Can we ensure freedom for Christians without ensuring religious freedom at large?
From article: * In January 2017, Trump ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to abandon the environmental and historic review process for the Dakota Access Pipeline to greenlight the construction of the pipeline, overriding the objections of desecration of sacred sites by Native Americans.
The president issued the so-called Muslim Ban to partially fulfill his campaign pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the country.
By essentially shutting down refugee admissions into the U.S., this president eliminated the possibility that those fleeing religious persecution can find refuge in the U.S. As a result of this shutdown, many religiously affiliated refugee resettlement agencies were put out of business. This is a direct attack on central theological tenets of every branch of Christianity in the United States, as well as the beliefs of Jews and Muslims.
At his direction, the administration has banned asylum seekers from exercising their legal right to file for asylum based on fear of persecution, including religious persecution.
His child separation policies at our southern border deprive predominately Christian families of their human dignity, and holding children in cages is de facto an intentional assault on their human rights.
In response to the mass slaughter and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas by the government of Myanmar, the administration clutched its collective pearls but did not investigate charges of genocide, nor did it provide sufficient aid to improve the lives of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled to Bangladesh.
Likewise, the administration has refused to act in the face of the mass persecution of hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in China.
And finally, the administration continues to expand arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite its recurring religious freedom violations. A Trump-appointed commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom celebrated Mohammed Bin Salman as a supposed champion of international religious freedom .
Imo no, religious freedom, freedom of practice not that humans are morally free, must be total and include all.
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