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Comment by Chris on May 1, 2017 at 7:15am

From Americans United.

100 Days In, Trump’s Chipping Away At Religious Freedom

"Apr 28, 2017 by Liz Hayes in Wall of Separation

Tomorrow is President Donald J. Trump’s 100th day in office. Although he campaigned on his 100-day “Contract with the American Voter,” he no longer seems enthusiastic about the milestone. Perhaps that’s because he is facing criticism for failing to achieve any major legislative victories. One thing he has accomplished: He has caused real harm to religious freedom and has made promises to do even more.

Here are five things he’s done that you should know about – and how we’ve been fighting back:

1. The Muslim Ban

What he did: On the campaign trail, Trump promised a “Muslim ban” even though it’s unconstitutional and un-American to single out anyone for discrimination because of their religious beliefs. Within a week of taking office, he delivered by signing a hastily drafted executive order barring people from coming to the U.S. from several Muslim-majority countries. Almost immediately, federal courts blocked the unconstitutional ban. Then he signed a second executive order that had the same problem as the first: It singled out Muslims for disfavor based solely on their religion. Although the order remains blocked, it has still caused real harm, including that its anti-Muslim sentiment has led to a further rise in hate crimes..."

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Comment by Chris on May 1, 2017 at 12:19am

Interesting article about Christians leaving their church Stephen.

Fourteen per cent of US Christians left their churches after Trump'...

I read, or heard someplace that 80% of evangelicals voted for Trump.

I also read that a predictor of being a Trump suporter was having an Authoritarian personality.

The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter.

Evangelicals and the American Taliban have no other authoritarian figure higher than Jesus. Gowd seems to be secondary.

Comment by Stephen on April 30, 2017 at 11:55am

UK was given details of alleged contacts between Trump campaign and Moscow

Julian Borger  in Washington 

the Guardian | Friday 28 April 2017  18.23 BST  Last modified on Friday 28 April 2017  21.56 BST 

Reports of possible collusion between the Trump administration and the Kremlin have led to a political storm in the US. Photograph: Elaine Thompson/AP

The UK government was given details last December of allegedly extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Moscow, according to court papers.

Reports by Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, on possible collusion between the the Trump camp and the Kremlin are at the centre of a political storm in the US over Moscow’s role in getting Donald Trump elected.

It was not previously known that the UK intelligence services had also received the dossier but Steele confirmed in a court filing earlier this month that he handed a memorandum compiled in December to a “senior UK government national security official acting in his official capacity, on a confidential basis in hard copy form”.

How the Trump dossier came to light: secret sources, a retired spy and John McCain
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The court papers say Steele decided to pass on the information he had collected because it was “of considerable importance in relation to alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election”, that it “had implications for the national security of the US and the UK” and “needed to [be] analysed and further investigated/verified”.

The December memo alleged that four Trump representatives travelled to Prague in August or September in 2016 for “secret discussions with Kremlin representatives and associated operators/hackers”, about how to pay hackers secretly for penetrating Democratic party computer systems and “contingency plans for covering up operations”.

Read more= read:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/trump-russia-intell...

Comment by Chris on April 30, 2017 at 3:46am

Trump Cabinet has Bible study meetings with pastor who wants ‘disci...

Cabinet officials in the President Donald Trump’s White House meet for a weekly Bible study group led by a right-wing pastor dedicated to “making disciples of Christ in the Capitol” and spreading Christian fundamentalism among U.S. leaders.

Fusion.net reported Thursday that Energy Secretary and former Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry attends the weekly prayer and Bible study meetings which are held in the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday mornings.

Fusion obtained a copy of Perry’s schedule from Apr. 5 which included the meeting, but did not list who else would be in attendance. Pastor Ralph Drollinger’s website Capitol Ministries, however says that the Christian pastor presides over weekly Bible Study meetings with Trump Cabinet officials.

Drollinger, Fusion’s Brendan O’Connor wrote is “(a) former college basketball star turned evangelical Christian whose own church disavowed him over his bigotry and radical theology.”

The controversial pastor, O’Connor said, “has variously proclaimed that Catholicism is ‘the world’s largest false religion,’ that female legislators who continue working after having children are sinners, and that homosexuality is an ‘abomination.’ He has also written that social welfare programs are un-Christian. ‘It is safe to say that God is a Capitalist,’ Drollinger once wrote, ‘not a Communist.'”

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Trump Cabinet has Bible study meetings with pastor who wants ‘disci...

Ronald Reagun used to pray for armageddon.

Jim Bakker: Ronald Reagan Told Me Armageddon’s Coming, ‘America Wil...

Comment by Stephen on April 29, 2017 at 5:01am

Trump is truly an evil bastard.

Three children, 19 years in the US, no criminal record: Meet the man still deported by Donald Trump

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/three-children-19-years-in-the-...

Comment by Stephen on April 27, 2017 at 10:05pm

Comment by Stephen on April 27, 2017 at 7:02pm

A 29-Year-Old Blogger Who Criticized Islamic Extremism Was Murdered in the Maldives

Hemant Mehta 

patheos.com |

Yameen Rasheed, a blogger critical of radical Islam, lived in the Maldives, an island nation and tourism magnet. On Sunday, he was brutally murdered, continuing a pattern of South Asian religious critics being killed for their sacrilegious ideas.

The blogger, Yameen Rasheed, 29, had complained repeatedly to the police about receiving death threats, he said in an interview with The New York Times this year, adding that the police often failed to return his calls or dropped his complaints without investigation.

“In my case, I get multiple kinds of death threats from different people, because I write and do the campaign,” he said. Mr. Rasheed was a coordinator of a campaign to find his friend Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla, a journalist for The Maldives Independent who was abducted in 2014.

The police said that Mr. Rasheed was found with multiple stab wounds in his apartment building in the capital, Malé, shortly before 3 a.m. He was rushed to Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital and died soon after.

read:http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/04/24/a-29-year-o...

Comment by Stephen on April 27, 2017 at 6:53pm

Muslim Man Is Beheaded in Central African Republic

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

April 29, 2014

Christian militiamen decapitated a young Muslim man in the capital, Bangui, two days after peacekeepers escorted some of the last remaining Muslims from the city. Central African Republic’s conflict intensified in December when Christian militants known as anti-Balaka stormed the capital to overthrow the Muslim rebel government, which stepped down in January. Reprisal attacks on Muslim civilians accused of having collaborated with the rebels, known as Seleka, have continued despite the deployment of French and regional peacekeepers.

Comment by Stephen on April 27, 2017 at 3:31pm

Terror arrest near Houses of Parliament

[HERE WE GO AGAIN]

Image copyright AFP Image caption The suspect was under surveillance for "some time" before being arrested

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39736733

Comment by Stephen on April 26, 2017 at 7:07pm

WATCH: President Trump, Ivanka call NASA astronauts in space

Even on a simple thing like calling the ISS Trump manages to make it look embarrassing.

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