January 19, 2018 - Rather Expose Them Christian News Blog

HHS ANNOUNCES CREATION OF “CONSCIENCE & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DIVISION” TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS

January 19, 2018 John

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New Conscience and Religious Freedom Division Announcement

HHS ANNOUNCES CREATION OF

“CONSCIENCE & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DIVISION” TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: http://christiannews.net/2018/01/19/hhs-announces-creation-of-conscience-and-religious-freedom-division-to-protect-rights-of-medical-professionals/;

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 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

announced on Thursday the creation of a new division in its Office for Civil Rights

(OCR) focused on protecting the right of conscience and religious freedom.

“The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division has been established
to restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the
fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom,”
the department said in a statement.

“The creation of the new division will provide HHS with the focus it
needs to more vigorously and effectively enforce existing laws
protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom, the first
freedom protected in the Bill of Rights,” it added.

The protections most likely pertain to those who have objections to
participating in abortions and those who have religious convictions
about “gender reassignment” treatments and procedures. The division
would enforce existing laws, such as the Church, Coats-Snowe and Weldon
Amendments.

As previously reported,
in August 2016, a number of states, as well as the Christian Medical
and Dental Association, filed suit against HHS under the Obama
administration after it released a rule that was perceived as requiring
any doctor who accepts Medicare or Medicaid to provide “transgender”
related services regardless of their religious objections. Services
would include hormone replacement, mastectomies and hysterectomies.

A federal judge halted the enforcement of the rule,
writing, “Plaintiffs will be forced to either violate their religious
beliefs or maintain their current policies which seem to be in direct
conflict with the rule and risk the severe consequences of enforcement.”

Roger Severino, the director of OCR, stated on Thursday that his
office would investigate any complaint surrounding the violation of the
conscience rights of medical professionals. He advised that there had
been 34 complaints submitted since the election, and that the creation
of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division was the result of last May’s executive order from President Trump.

“Federal law protects the freedom of Americans and their
organizations to exercise religion and participate fully in civic life
without undue interference by the federal government. The executive
branch will honor and enforce those protections,” the order read in part.

Abortion advocacy groups and others decried the news, asserting that
the move was a step backward for the nation and that it legalized
discrimination.

“This announcement marks the Trump administration’s latest step
toward turning the Department of Health and Human Services into a place
where backwards ideology rules, and science, ethics, and concern for the
well-being of all Americans are non-existent,” Ilyse Hogue, president
of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said in a statement.

“This administration has taken a very expansive view of religious
liberty,” Louise Melling of the ACLU also told NPR. “It understands
religious liberty to override anti-discrimination principles.”

However, during an event on Thursday announcing the new HHS
division, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, opined that the
protection of religious freedom was a step in the right direction,
noting that under the Obama administration, people of faith were
expected to conform to the government’s views.

“This department’s silent refusal to defend our rights sent a very
clear message: Now is not the time for freedom. It is time for you to
conform,’” he said, speaking of the HHS under Obama. “What a difference
one year makes.”

Sen. James Lankford, R-OK, also noted that the First Amendment right
to free exercise of religion is misunderstood as some wrongly believe it
only pertains to worshiping in a church building.

“It’s the ability to have a faith and live your faith wherever you
are,” he explained. “If you have a faith and you can only practice it in
your certain place of worship, you don’t have real religious freedom.”

“Laws protecting religious freedom and conscience rights are just
empty words on paper if they aren’t enforced,” Severino also said in the
press release. “No one should be forced to choose between helping sick
people and living by one’s deepest moral or religious convictions, and
the new division will help guarantee that victims of unlawful
discrimination find justice.”

“For too long, governments big and small have treated conscience
claims with hostility instead of protection, but change is coming and it
begins here and now.”

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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS REINSTATED MEXICO CITY POLICY, ALLOWING STATES TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD

January 19, 2018 John

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS REINSTATED MEXICO CITY POLICY, ALLOWING STATES TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/planned-parenthood-taps-sex-change-therapy-minors-new-revenue-source/

Trump Becomes First President To Speak At A March For Life Rally in 45 Years
Alex Jones presents video footage of President Trump speaking in
Washington D.C. at the 45th annual March For Life Rally, fulfilling yet
another one of his many campaign promises.

President Trump addresses March for Life Participants and Pro Life Leaders Jan 19, 2018
In the White House Rose Garden

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CHINESE COMMUNISTS INFILTRATING U.S. UNIVERSITIES

January 19, 2018 John

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CHINESE COMMUNISTS INFILTRATING

U.S. UNIVERSITIES

BY ALEX NEWMAN

SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/28061-chinese-communists-infiltrating-u-s-universities;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

From FreedomProject Media:

Lawmakers and academics in the Lone Star State are on edge after the
mass-murdering Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was exposed trying to buy
influence and shape the narrative at the University of Texas and other
American educational institutions. Indeed, operating through front
groups, the regime in Beijing is now making its influence felt in
education worldwide. Critics say it must be exposed and stopped.

The latest shoe to drop in the controversy over Communist Chinese
infiltration of U.S. schools came last week. Under pressure from
lawmakers and pro-liberty voices, the University of Texas at Austin announced that
it would not be accepting funding from the CCP-linked “China-United
States Exchange Foundation,” a registered foreign agent known for trying
to spread the murderous regime’s propaganda.

In a letter to Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), UT-Austin President Greg
Fenves vowed that the school would “ensure that the receipt of outside
funding does not create potential conflicts of interest or place limits
on academic freedom and the robust exchange of ideas.” Fenves expressed
concerns that accepting funds from the CUSEF would, indeed, limit
academic freedom and ideas.

In fact, even before lawmakers got involved, the CUSEF was already
under fire by university faculty for its role in promoting Communist
Chinese propaganda on campus at an event in November. And the outfit is
funded by “a high-ranking Chinese government official with close ties to
a sprawling Chinese Communist Party apparatus that handles influence
operations abroad,” according to media reports. It is led by another ChiCom operative.

To read the rest of this article, click here.

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DHS SECRETARY KIRSTJEN NIELSEN SAYS HER AGENCY IS CONSIDERING CHARGES AGAINST SANCTUARY CITIES’ LEADERS

January 19, 2018 John

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DHS threatens crackdown on sanctuary cities amid immigration debate
Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) weighs in on reports that Homeland Security
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asked federal prosecutors to see if they can
file criminal charges against sanctuary cities for refusing to cooperate
with federal deportation efforts.

DHS SECRETARY NIELSEN SAYS HER AGENCY

IS CONSIDERING CHARGES AGAINST

SANCTUARY CITIES’ LEADERS

BY WARREN MASS

SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/28060-dhs-secretary-nielsen-says-her-agency-considering-charges-against-sanctuary-city-leaders;

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Speaking to the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 16,
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen (shown) said that DHS
has asked federal prosecutors to consider the possibility of bringing
criminal charges against leaders of so-called sanctuary cities. Such
cities refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities by
honoring detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) to hold detainees in their custody who are in this country
illegally until ICE agents can apprehend them. “The Department of
Justice is reviewing what avenues may be available,” Nielsen told the
committee.

Nielsen’s statement reinforced what the acting ICE director, Tom
Homan, said during a January 2 appearance on the Fox News Channel’s Your World With Neil Cavuto,
namely, that politicians should be held “personally accountable” for
crimes committed by illegal immigrants. “We’ve got to start charging
some of these politicians with crimes,” Homan said.
Homan said previously in a statement to the Washington Times
last July that he wanted to see local officials charged as complicit in
human smuggling if they shielded illegal aliens through their sanctuary
policies.

Though neither Nielsen nor Homan mentioned a specific plan for
bringing criminal charges against officials in so-called sanctuary
cities who refuse to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373 (the federal law that
says local government officials may not interfere with communications
between their entity and ICE regarding the immigration status of
detainees) they might consider charging such officials with “misprision
of felony.” 18 U.S. Code § 4 defines “misprision of felony” as follows:

Whoever, having knowledge of the actual
commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States,
conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some
judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United
States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
three years, or both.

In order for an official to be charged with “misprision of felony”
for failure to turn over an illegal alien, the alien must be guilty of a
felony. Not all illegal aliens are felons, but some are. In addition to
being charged with non-immigration-related crimes that are felonies, an
alien who has been legally removed from the United States commits a
felony if he reenters the country illegally one or more times.
Since the number of aliens who have illegally reentered the United
States again after being deported is considerable, pursuing “misprision
of felony” charges against officials in sanctuary jurisdictions should
certainly be considered an option.
President Trump issued an executive order (13768, “Enhancing Public
Safety in the Interior of the United States”) a year ago this month to
deny some federal grants to so-called sanctuary cities, but U.S.
District Judge William Orrick for the Northern District of California
blocked the order provisionally last April. The parts of that order that
Orrick objected to fell under Section 9: “Sanctuary Jurisdictions. It
is the policy of the executive branch to ensure, to the fullest extent
of the law, that a State, or a political subdivision of a State, shall
comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373.”
8 U.S.C. 1373 states, in part:

Notwithstanding any other provision of
Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government
entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any
government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the
Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the
citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any
individual.

The order went on to state the penalty for noncompliance:

In furtherance of this policy, the
Attorney General and the Secretary, in their discretion and to the
extent consistent with law, shall ensure that jurisdictions that
willfully refuse to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373 (sanctuary jurisdictions)
are not eligible to receive Federal grants, except as deemed necessary
for law enforcement purposes by the Attorney General or the Secretary.

Orrick issued a permanent injunction on November 20 in response to
lawsuits filed by the city and county of San Francisco and Santa Clara
County, in California.
“The Counties have demonstrated that the Executive Order has caused
and will cause them constitutional injuries by violating the separation
of powers doctrine and depriving them of their Tenth and Fifth Amendment
rights,” U.S. District Judge William Orrick for the Northern District
of California wrote in his order.
As we observed in our article about Orrick’s original ruling in
April, while it is true that the Constitution vests spending powers in
Congress, Orrick’s reliance on the 10th Amendment to justify his ruling
is novel, at best. The amendment reads: “The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
We noted that the 10th Amendment has long been cherished by strict
constitutionalists in matters involving states’ rights. However,
Orrick’s statement that the amendment “requires that conditions on
federal funds be unambiguous and timely made” appears to be a product of
his own imagination — not the 10th Amendment. Furthermore, the Trump
executive order does not authorize any spending, but merely restricts
how federal funds may be used.
It would make more sense to claim that the 10th Amendment does not
authorize federal grants to local jurisdictions at all — rather than to
assert that it prohibits the federal government from denying those
grants.
As stated previously, Trump’s executive order, “Enhancing Public
Safety in the Interior of the United States,” was issued to enforce
compliance with a federal law: 8 U.S.C. 1373. The Trump administration
has appealed Orrick’s decision blocking that order to the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals, but there has been no ruling on that appeal as
we write.

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AMY ELLIS NUTT AT FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA: SCHOOL FORCES KIDS TO SIT THROUGH SEX CHANGE SEMINAR

January 19, 2018 John

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AMY ELLIS NUTT

GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL

FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA: SCHOOL FORCES KIDS TO SIT THROUGH SEX CHANGE SEMINAR

A government high school in Virginia forced children to sit through an
assembly promoting gender confusion, genital mutilation in “sex-change”
surgeries, and other absurdities. Parents, students, and even teachers
were shocked. Now, the school is under fire, with the powerful
non-profit Family Research Council (FRC) sounding the alarm.

Parents were not informed in advance, according to a horrified teacher
who asked to remain anonymous. The children were apparently not given an
opportunity to opt out of the indoctrination session, either, the
gender ideologist’s comments suggested.

The program, held at George Mason High School in the Northern Virginia
city of Falls Church, featured well-known gender-confusion advocate Amy
Ellis Nutt. Among other absurdities, Nutt told the children that those
who “assign” their “gender at birth” — doctors who examine their anatomy
— might have gotten it wrong. | Article: http://bit.ly/2mOELm3

SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/28063-public-school-forces-kids-to-sit-through-sex-change-seminar

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

From FreedomProject Media:

Now, the school is under fire, with the powerful non-profit Family Research Council (FRC) sounding the alarm.

Parents were not informed in advance, according to a horrified
teacher who asked to remain anonymous. The children were apparently not
given an opportunity to opt out of the indoctrination session, either,
the gender ideologist’s comments suggested.

The program, held at George Mason High School in the Northern
Virginia city of Falls Church, featured well-known gender-confusion
advocate Amy Ellis Nutt. Among other absurdities, Nutt told the children that those who “assign” their “gender at birth” — doctors who examine their anatomy — might have gotten it wrong.

“Gender is a spectrum,” claimed Nutt, a propagandist for the far-left Washington Post, a discredited megaphone for Bilderberg attendee and CIA contractor Jeff Bezos that perpetuates the lie that a globalist Insider who wanted to deny voting rights to black people gets to define the “conservative” movement.

During her bizarre speech, Nutt lectured the students on her book Becoming Nicole. According
to summaries of the book, it tells the story of a biological boy who
claimed to be a girl, took puberty-suppressing hormones, and then was
castrated at age 17 as part of a “gender reassignment” surgery. Nutt
told the children she attended the castration.

To read the rest of the article, click here.

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