Unit of Study: Unit 6, civil liberties
In early May of 2017, President Donald Trump signed another executive order. The reason this order was established was for the goal to "protect and vigorously promote religious liberty" and "alleviate the burden" of a law designed to prohibit religious leaders from speaking out about politics, according to senior administration officials. This order was implemented to make it easier for those employers with religious objections not to include contraception coverage in workers' health care plans, although it would be up to federal agencies to determine how that would happen. Donald Trump's main reason for this was to appeal to the conservatives that have supported him and not necessarily what would be best for the country as a whole. Many civil liberties groups are furious and are ready to fight this executive order. “It would create an unprecedented license to discriminate with taxpayers’ funds, undermine women’s health care and elevate one narrow set of religious beliefs over all others,” said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, of the previous leaked draft. This order will directly affect the John Amendment which states that tax-emempt, religious organization can't be involved with political action. This amendment can't even be touched by Donald Trump because it is a law which must go through congress.
