.Brent Leatherwood, head of state of the SBC’s Integrity & Religious Freedom Compensation, which is actually the faith’s public policy arm, takes goal at LGBTQ+ protections, abortion accessibility in concerns request.Leatherwood character displays confidence one of evangelical Religious for Trump’s 2nd term, regardless of results earlier on project route over GOP relaxing viewpoint on abortion.In add-on to carried on proposal for abortion restrictions, Leatherwood letter to Trump signals evangelicals anticipates turning around LGBTQ+ antidiscrimination protections.In a pen of evangelical Religious’ expect President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, Southern Baptist Formality public policy leaders talked to the inbound management to prioritize limiting abortion and reversing antidiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people.Despite evangelicals’ disappointment along with Trump on the project route for relieving his standpoint against abortion, a character from the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Freedom Compensation to Trump’s change team expresses a revitalized optimism for traditional policy positions on major social issues.The letter lays out a set of policy top priorities for the Trump administration to look at in its own initial 100 days: limiting get access to as well as funding for abortion providers as well as the abortion pill, reversing an executive order released through Head of state Joe Biden along with guidance to government companies on antidiscrimination securities for LGBTQ+ individuals, and reversing various other government policies under Biden guarding LGBTQ+ rights.” President Trump will certainly comfort millions of Americans that they are going to not be actually targeted due to the federal authorities just for counting on natural realities or pursuing their theological strong beliefs,” Brent Leatherwood, head of state of the Integrities & Religious Right Percentage, claimed in a Nov. 11 letter to Trump switch team co-chairs Howard Lutnick and also Linda McMahon.Leatherwood’s referral to the targeting of theological views on gender is actually an action to a Biden administration manager order entitled “Preventing and also Combating Discrimination on the Manner of Sex Identification or even Sexual Orientation,” a manual of standards for federal government organizations on implementing antidiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people.Similarly, Leatherwood noted various other regulations accepted under the Biden management by the united state Team of Wellness and also Person Companies as well as U.S. Division of Education and learning restricting discrimination against LGBTQ+ folks in medical insurance, trainee financial aid as well as foster care.The Integrity & Religious Right Payment has long been actually very most energetic in supporting for abortion limitations, though it’s usually active in opposing LGBTQ+ rights.
Just recently, the general public plan branch submitted an amicus brief with the united state Supreme Court in support of Tennessee’s gender-affirming care ban.Leatherwood also inquired Trump to prioritize other abortion-related things, including reversing extended access to mifepristone. On top of that, he talked to the Trump administration to reinstate policies that ban abortion treatment suppliers from acquiring federal backing.” Head of state Trump will welcome a restored focus on securing lifestyle and the deeply-held religious beliefs of citizens from federal government overreach,” Leatherwood stated in his letter.On the campaign path previously this year, Trump and also Vice President-elect JD Vance shocked numerous evangelicals for softening their posture on abortion by balking at ask for a federal abortion restriction. Rather, Trump and Vance spoke in favor of states being actually the final adjudicator of abortion policy.The Ethics & Religious Freedom Percentage has actually been actually energetic at the state amount to sustain tighter abortion limitations as well as assists a government abortion ban.Despite disagreements over attitudes towards abortion, evangelicals assisted Trump however once again in the 2024 political election.
Group association and also other concerns close to abortion possess considerably cartoon conventional Christian help for Trump, consisting of anticipate the USA Supreme Court to maintain its own conservative a large number in the long-lasting future.Related: How SBC public law upper arm is actually coping with factional disagreement after president’s near ousterLiam Adams covers religion for The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY System. Reach him at ladams@tennessean.com or on social networking sites @liamsadams.