by Adam Edelman
Civil rights groups and LGBTQ advocates on Tuesday tore into the Department of Justice's newly formed "religious liberty task force," slamming the move as a discriminatory affront to civil liberties masquerading as protections for people of faith.
"This
task force's agenda isn’t consistent with religious freedom. Religious
freedom protects our right to our beliefs, not a right to discriminate
or harm others," Louise Melling, a deputy legal director with the
American Civil Liberties Union, told NBC News in a statement. "Jeff
Sessions' Department of Justice is again turning that understanding of
religious freedom on its head."
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Source: NBC News
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