The Biden regime has been using regulations to erode religious freedom
Alliance Defending Freedom details how Joe Biden has used regulations to erode our religious freedoms. Of the six examples provided, here are the first three:
The federal government seems to grow larger every year, not just through trillions in spending, but in how it regulates our daily lives.
Agency “regulations,” although they are not laws, have significant effects on the way Americans conduct business or live their lives.
The Biden administration has done little to hide the fact that its own regulations—and efforts to undo President Trump’s reforms—are aimed at advancing an aggressive cultural agenda many Americans disagree with.
Below is a snapshot of seven regulations expected to be advanced this year, and the chilling effect they could have on those who live and work according to their deeply held beliefs.
Section 1557 of Obamacare
Issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Shortly after he took office, President Biden issued an executive order instructing his administration to reinterpret “sex” in federal laws to mean “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”
This new interpretation includes the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Section 1557 of that law bans sex discrimination, but the regulation would expand that to create a scenario in which doctors and other health care professionals could be forced to perform experimental “gender transition” interventions on patients—even children.
These dangerous procedures can have harmful, lifelong, and irreversible consequences, including sterilization. For many health-care providers, performing these interventions would go against their medical judgment, religious beliefs, and consciences. The new regulation will also include a mandate to perform abortions.
President Biden’s HHS is overstepping its authority with this unlawful mandate. And by trampling the religious freedom of doctors, the agency is putting the health of children in danger.
Alliance Defending Freedom has filed suit in federal court against HHS on behalf of the American College of Pediatricians and the Catholic Medical Association. We have appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit after a lower court dismissed the case.
Contraceptive Mandate
Issued by HHS
In another Obamacare rule administered through HHS and other agencies, the Obama administration infamously tried to force businesses and even nuns to cover early abortifacient drugs and contraception in their employee health plans.
The Trump administration fixed that, issuing regulations that take those religious and moral burdens away, and the U.S. Supreme Court initially upheld those rules in July 2020.
But the Biden administration is trying to eliminate the Trump administration’s broad exemption for those who have moral objections to abortion and reimpose the mandate on them, regardless of the Supreme Court’s decision leaving the exemption in place—a blatant targeting of moral objectors.
Title IX
Issued by the Department of Education
The Biden administration’s reinterpretation of sex also has grave effects on schools at every level.
A Department of Education regulation would force women to compete against males in athletics and even to share private spaces like bathrooms, locker rooms, and dorm rooms with males.
The redefinition of sex also has free speech implications since those who don’t address individuals with their “preferred pronouns” could become a target for discrimination claims.
On the women’s sports front, ADF attorneys represent Lainey Armistead, who played soccer at West Virginia State University. Lainey intervened in a federal lawsuit to defend the state’s “Save Women’s Sports” law.
In March 2023, attorneys with ADF and the West Virginia attorney general’s office filed a motion asking the Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court’s injunction blocking West Virginia’s women’s sports law without providing any rationale.
(Read more at Alliance Defending Freedom)
Biden has untied all common sense and let it go. If you believe in XX chromosomes, you are sunk.
So much for supporting real women. If you say you are a woman for the day (or at least long enough to get a ribbon or medal), that will do for Dementia Joe.
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Biden’s TSA allows illegal aliens to board flights without ID while carding citizents
The New York Post documents how Biden’s Transportation “Security” Agency allows illegal aliens to board flights without being checked, but Americans must show ID.
American travelers are outraged by signs appearing at US airports appearing to allow migrants onto flights without showing proper identification.
US citizens traveling domestically have to show a valid identification card or a passport to board a plane, but signs at certain airports say there are different rules for some newly arrived migrants.
The signs claim the Transport Security Administration is working with Customs and Border Protection to “validate adult non-US citizen travel documentation when the traveler does not otherwise have an acceptable form of identification.”
In practice, this means migrants who have entered the country using the CBP One app – some 45,000 people a month – can use it as their travel document and even choose whether to allow officers to take their picture.
Retired CBP Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem told The Post this presents bad optics.
“I’m an American citizen and I’m quite offended that these migrants that have come in here are getting preferential treatment and being prioritized in so many ways,” he said.
“The rest of us are paying the price at gas pump and grocery stores. Tax is going up. Yet [the US is] continuing to bring masses of people [in].”
“[The Administration’s mentality is] to try and make it the most humane and pleasurable experience for these poor people under distress because it is such a tough ordeal to navigate an American airport…but you’ve gotta be kidding me, many of them just came from Middle East, traversed seven countries, used apps to get here, and we’re supposed to believe Phoenix Airport might be all to much for them …ridiculous!”
(Read more at the New York Post)
Joe does not care for your safety. He does not care if another 9/11 occurs.
Since he is already brain dead, what does he care if a million or two Americans get wiped away by an Iranian or Venezuelan bomb smuggled over the Southern border?
Add to that what seems to be a veiled threat from a Middle Eastern illegal alien recorded at the border (where he replies to the person taking the recording: “You will know soon enough who I am.”).
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In Biden’s America: People do the right thing and get punished
Biden’s FBI went after a Texas Children’s Hospital whistleblower who spoke out for our children
The Daily Mail tells of a surgeon at Texas Children’s Hospital who blew the whistle on that hospital’s illegal program of giving minors irreversible transgender treatments. Now that surgeon has to seek legal protection from Biden’s Department of “Justice.”
The anonymous surgeon who blew the whistle on secret transgender procedures on children in Texas has revealed his identity, saying he’s being targeted by federal prosecutors as retribution for the leak.
Eithan Haim, 33, on Wednesday launched a fundraiser to cover his legal costs for what he calls a ‘blatant attempt at political intimidation’ after he lifted the lid on trans procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH).
Haim in May 2023 released medical files showing that TCH staff had provided puberty blockers and other sex-change treatments to kids, even after hospital officials said they had stopped doing so in March 2022.
‘Just over a month later … two federal agents showed up to my apartment in a highly atypical, unexpected, and aggressive show of force,’ Haim wrote on Wednesday in his appeal for help covering his spiraling legal costs.
‘I was given a target letter signed by a federal prosecutor that stated I was being criminally investigated for a case regarding medical records.’
The prosecution, says Haim, is ‘driven by a highly ideological division within the Department of Health and Human Services.’
Officials seek to ‘silence whistleblowers who expose institutionalized medical corruption and the dangers of these hormone-based interventions for confused, adolescent children,’ he added.
The FBI declined to comment on the case. DailyMail.com reached out to TCH, but did not immediately get a reply.
Haim insists he did not break any rules. Though he released private medical files that detailed trans medical procedures on children as young as 12, he says the identities of patients had been redacted.
He aims to raise $500,000 via the GiveSendGo.com website to cover his legal costs in a case that he says has already forced him to cash in his retirement funds, investments, and other savings.
‘Although we have given this case all we have, there simply isn’t enough to keep up with the hundreds of thousands we currently owe in legal bills or the potential million(s) it would cost to fight this case through trial,’ he wrote.
(Read of the whistleblower’s legal woes at the Daily Mail)
“First, do no harm” means nothing to today’s political hospital. “Justice” is only a title in the Biden regime.
Words once meant things. No longer does that hold water.
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Mark 1:1 
I think he’s trying to provoke an armed insurrection.
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Maybe. I think he has other ideas of just overpowering the Right with imported socialists.
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This is gong to be a scary year…
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