{"id":44298,"date":"2022-01-19T07:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44298"},"modified":"2022-01-19T07:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:10:50","slug":"our-religious-rights-are-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44298","title":{"rendered":"Our Religious Rights Are In Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2022\/january\/the-rights-that-god-gave-us-how-nbsp-religious-freedom-institute-is-fighting-erosion-of-liberty-in-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBN News<\/a> posted an article about the fight for religious liberty in America.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Over the weekend, President Biden declared January 16th <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/politics\/2022\/january\/biden-proclaims-religious-freedom-day-but-these-10-examples-tell-a-different-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Religious Freedom Day<\/a>, honoring America&#8217;s commitment to protecting people&#8217;s right to practice their faith. However, a slew of recent cases shows religious liberties being chipped away.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The examples are vast. Washington state high school football coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2022\/january\/high-court-agrees-to-hear-case-of-washington-football-coach-fired-for-on-field-prayers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Kennedy<\/a> was fired for his post-game prayers. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2021\/december\/christian-photographer-left-with-3-bad-options-after-court-tosses-religious-freedom-case-jail-and-100-000-fine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian photographer<\/a> was facing thousands of dollars in fines, jail time, and a revoked business license for declining to take photos for same-sex weddings. At Health and Human Services, <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2021\/november\/leaked-hhs-memo-reveals-biden-admin-seeks-to-strip-americans-of-religious-protections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a leaked memo<\/a> revealed the Biden administration seeks to un-enforce the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Brownback (former Religious Freedom Ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/cwn\/2022\/january\/ambassador-sam-brownback-kicks-off-national-committee-for-religious-freedom-virtual-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sam Brownback<\/a>) is spearheading the organization&#8217;s new National Committee for Religious Freedom. The committee&#8217;s goal is to help elect politicians at all levels, regardless of their party, who will stand for religious liberty. Each state will have a chapter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;ll be a Virginians for Religious Freedom, a Kansans for Religious Freedom, Californians for Religious Freedom, and we&#8217;ll ask those local state affiliates to determine the major issues in their state and local governance that they want to look at,&#8221; explained Brownback.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Brownback says he&#8217;s hopeful that both Republicans and Democrats will support the committee, though the issue is not as bi-partisan as it has been historically.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to take back our constitutionally protected religious rights, lest we lose them forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, CBN News posted an article about the fight for religious liberty in America. The article reports: Over the weekend, President Biden declared January 16th Religious Freedom Day, honoring America&#8217;s commitment to protecting people&#8217;s right to practice their faith. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6194,13372,3618,9952],"class_list":["post-44298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cbn-news","tag-president-biden","tag-religious-freedom-in-america","tag-sam-brownback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44299,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44298\/revisions\/44299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}