{"id":1160,"date":"2017-01-30T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2017-01-29T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T22:42:25","slug":"plz-take-5mins-right-now-and-call-your-reps-about-this-presidential-violation-of-common-decency-and-religious-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/01\/plz-take-5mins-right-now-and-call-your-reps-about-this-presidential-violation-of-common-decency-and-religious-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Plz take 5mins RIGHT NOW and call your reps about this presidential violation of common decency and religious liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you haven&#8217;t settled on what you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/01\/calling-your-reps-a-guide-for-the-timid-with-quick-start-and-power-user-options\/\">calling your reps<\/a> about today, may I suggest the Second Place President&#8217;s Friday executive order banning Muslim immigrants from seven war-torn nations?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Mr. Trump also established a religious test<\/strong> for refugees from Muslim nations: <b>He ordered that Christians and others from minority religions be granted priority<\/b> over Muslims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/27\/us\/politics\/trump-syrian-refugees.html\">Trump Bars Refugees and Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>By Friday night that order was already being used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/28\/us\/refugees-detained-at-us-airports-prompting-legal-challenges-to-trumps-immigration-order.html\">detain folks who had already been fully vetted, in addition to showing loyalty to the US for years in the global war in terro<\/a>r. We should be welcoming these guys as heros and ideal Americans, not sending them back to be tortured and murdered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In\u00a0any case, an executive order that &#8220;Christians be granted priority&#8221; should not rest easy with any American.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>UPDATE<\/b>: Was doing some research Sunday and found a phrase that might come in handy when you make those calls: &#8220;<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crf-usa.org\/impeachment\/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors.html\">High Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1169\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7116-300x95.jpg\" alt=\"High crimes and misdemeanors \" width=\"300\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7116-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7116-768x243.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7116-1024x324.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7116-1200x379.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7116.jpg 1332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t settled on what you&#8217;re calling your reps about today, may I suggest the Second Place President&#8217;s Friday executive order banning Muslim immigrants from seven war-torn nations? Mr. Trump also established a religious test for refugees from Muslim nations: He ordered that Christians and others from minority religions be granted priority over Muslims. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/01\/plz-take-5mins-right-now-and-call-your-reps-about-this-presidential-violation-of-common-decency-and-religious-liberty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plz take 5mins RIGHT NOW and call your reps about this presidential violation of common decency and religious liberty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[75],"tags":[53,56],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}