Trump vs. Clinton on religious liberty

Last updated on: July 4, 2016 at 6:02 pm

July 5, 2016 by Gene Veith

At Donald Trump’s conclave with evangelical leaders, he notably dodged the religious liberty questions. That’s understandable, since Trump supports the LGTB cause , the source of the current efforts to punish Christians and Christian organizations for holding to their religious beliefs about sexual morality.

But surely Hillary Clinton would be worse than Trump on religious liberty issues, wouldn’t she? Maggie Gallagher thinks otherwise, after the jump. She argues that if Clinton is elected, Christians could oppose her from the base of a major political party. But if Trump is elected, both parties would have abandoned the issues, and Christians would have no political advocates. Do you agree with her reasoning?

From Maggie Gallagher, Religious Freedom & Donald Trump – – He’s Clearly Not Interested in It | National Review:

[After her account and discussion of what Trump said and didn’t say when asked about the religious liberty issue. . .]

People ask me how Trump could be worse than Hillary Clinton. Here’s the main way: He would leave in place Obama’s regulatory structure, confirming second-class citizenship for Christians. Meaning that it would now have bipartisan approval and that we would have no mainstream political party from which to fight.

Whatever bad things Hillary does, they still leave us with the ability (if we organize in new and more-effective ways) to fight politically this grotesque violation of the rule of law, and of liberty, and of basic decency.

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