Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Obama's Fascist USDA Tactics Being Reversed in the Age of Trump

Department of Agriculture Religious Freedom Policy Resolves Case of Christian Meat Packer



The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released new guidance Monday that affirms the agency will protect religious freedom and will not discriminate against any American based on faith beliefs regarding marriage and sexuality.

The guidance, titled “First Amendment and Religious Beliefs: Questions and Answers,” states:
Opinions about same-sex marriage, gender identity, and sexual morality are all matters of public importance. Moreover, people often have different perspectives on these topics, which are sometimes informed by their religious beliefs, and feel the need to discuss them. USDA respects the First Amendment rights of USDA personnel, as well as non-USDA personnel working at facilities inspected by USDA, to share their varying viewpoints on these topics, whether through oral discussion, the display or distribution of literature, or other means.
While the guidance does include “gender identity” as a “matter of public importance,” the language resolves the case of Don Vander Boon, A Christian owner of private company West Michigan Beef Company, who was threatened two years ago with a shut-down of his meat-packing business by USDA inspectors because his break room contained an article promoting traditional marriage mixed in with others about the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision.
Vander Boon said USDA inspectors – who worked daily in his meat-packing facility – removed the article about traditional marriage and confronted him with it in his office, threatening to pull out of his facility, a situation that would immediately cause his business to shut down.
In May, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue said his agency is committed to religious freedom following President Donald Trump’s executive order signed on the National Day of Prayer.
In a policy statement, Perdue said:
I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans’ First Amendment freedoms. Whether we are inspecting private businesses for compliance with food safety laws or protecting our public lands for recreation, cultivation, and preservation, we must set the example of our Nation’s highest ideals. Doing so is not optional, and it is not discretionary: It is one of the crucial reasons why we exist.
Family Research Council (FRC) praised the USDA’s new guidance.
“I commend Secretary Perdue for correcting an injustice committed under the Obama administration against this family owned meatpacking business,” said Travis Weber, FRC Director of the Center for Religious Liberty. “We thank President Trump who signed the executive order on religious freedom making clear that Americans … don’t lose their religious freedoms upon entering the public square.”

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    What a difference the Trump administration makes. Obama loses again. Karma.



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      Why would an article in a break room concern a meat inspector? Talk about government overreach. Is every meat inspector a little Nazis, or all inspectors little Nazis?



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        Remember, they hated Jesus before they hated us. I’m glad to have a win here.



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          Those USDA employees who threatened to walk, thus threatening this man's business, should be fired. We can't have fascists in our government at any level.



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            Of course. The leftist mantra is free speech for me , but not for thee.



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                These people need to reigned in before they start inspecting our homes under the pretense of protecting the maid or babysitter from offensive written material.


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                  The LEFT(Hollywood, all Media, Liberals, Globalists, Muslims, etc.) ignores, spins, and changes history and news events using deceit and lies to label their opponents and to push their narratives. Mr. Obama, a LEFTIST, helped corrupt our government institutions to the detriment of our constitutional republic. Sadly, the LEFT has no good arguments but uses race, religion, gender, etc. to personally attack their opponents that disagree with them. Because the amoral LEFT knows it has no good reasons or evidence for its positions, the LEFT uses race, gender, religion, the legal system, the government, the political system, the media, the education system, and violence to stop any opposing viewpoints. Also, the LEFT promotes lower birthrates(eg. abortion, birth control, etc.) to help destroy each Western country using deceit and lies. Moreover, the LEFT removed religious ideology out of the schools and replaced it with LEFTIST ideology and ISLAM’S ideology in their deceptive effort to show the higher moral ground. The 57 or so Islamic countries have given oil money to the West’s LEFT to help corrupt the West’s governments, politics, academia, media, police, etc. The LEFT wants Money, Power, and then Control. The Islamic goal is the Islamization and the conquest of the West from within through Muslim migration with the LEFT’S help.


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                    Who was the employees that violated federal law , should be charged with a hate crime against Christians.


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                    The USA inspectors that pulled this stunt should be Canned... Yesterday.


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                      Fudge packers bearing down on heavy on the meat packer.



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