HHS Livestreams Announcement of New Conscience and Religious Freedom Division

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HHS Announces New Conscience and Religious Freedom Division

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pleased to announce the formation of a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The announcement will take place at an event at HHS headquarters from 10:30 a.m. to noon. It will be livestreamed here. Speakers will include Acting Secretary Eric D. Hargan, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Representative Vicky Hartzler, Senator James Lankford, OCR Director Roger Severino, and special guests.

The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division has been established to restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom. OCR is the law enforcement agency within HHS that enforces federal laws protecting civil rights and conscience in health and human services, and the security and privacy of people’s health information. The creation of the new division will provide HHS with the focus it needs to more vigorously and effectively enforce existing laws protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom, the first freedom protected in the Bill of Rights.

HHS-OCR Establishes New Conscience and Religious Freedom Division

January 18, 2018 | 10:30 am to 12:00 pm EST

HHS establishes a new Conscience and Religious Freedom (CRF) Division within its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) specializing in enforcement of and compliance with laws that protect conscience and the free exercise of religion, and that prohibit coercion and religious discrimination.

https://www.hhs.gov/conscience

Conscience and Religious Freedom

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1. Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit.

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2. The Christian Theocracy is coming...

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3. It's running now. NT More on OCR Director Roger Severino

The Man Behind Trump's Religious-Freedom Agenda for Health Care

Roger Severino, the devout, conservative head of civil-rights enforcement at HHS, shows the power of behind-the-scenes figures in a dysfunctional Washington.

Emily Jan / The Atlantic

EMMA GREEN JUN 7, 2017

Here are More than 1,000 Officials Trump has Quietly Deployed Across the Government

By Al Shaw and Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, March 8, 2017

Updated August 31, 2017

Much other stuff too.

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4. "Conscience and Religious Freedom"

Two concepts that are foreign to the GOP. Go figure.

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5. And isn't it interesting that link shows a picture of what seems to a Muslim woman....