With the newly established Religious Liberty Task Force, Jeff Sessions is once again rolling back time and progress in an effort to pacify the Evangelical Right. It's a simple knee-jerk reaction to the cries of persecution from Trump's conservative religious base and also Jeff Session's naughty, bigoted wet dream. Privilege is defined as "a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group." Those that have privilege don't want to give it up, and for those that live with privileges, when other people outside the group get equal standing, it may seem like there has been a loss. Equality for all is not the problem. Hate and bigotry are. This is just another symptom of white, privileged evangelicals wanting to keep their protections under the law exclusive to themselves. This isn't about liberty at all. It's about discrimination. When establishing this new task force, Sessions says that, ?We have gotten to the point where courts have held that morality cannot be a basis for law, where ministers are fearful to affirm, as they understand it, holy writ from the pulpit, and where one group can actively target religious groups by labeling them a ?hate group? on the basis of their sincerely held religious beliefs.? This should be scary enough for the nonbeliever. Those inside the congregation should also be appalled by the hijacking of faith in such an overtly political, power-hungry manner, though, I doubt that they'll think beyond their own comfort and pleasure. As you may know, comfort, preference, and pleasure were all things Jesus highly valued. ??(sarcasm implied) What does religious freedom look like in an egalitarian age? If Trump, Sessions, and Conservative Christians have their way, we'll never know. It's too bad that Jesus never gets a say in this or are we just not listening? Come along for the ride as we skewer through life, culture, and spirituality in the face of a changing world. www.SnarkyFaith.com