This coming week, the Trump administration is hosting an event promoting religious freedom that’s uniting the president’s fiercest human rights critics with his most fervent supporters.
Donald Trump has long been an easy mark for human rights activists, who regularly slam the president's fondness for dictators, his hostility toward immigrants and his attacks on the news media.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Brownback, a former senator who was a key sponsor of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, argued the issue has been sidelined under past administrations.Trump is not known for being very religious. But his administration's support for religious freedom happens to fit with one key Trump goal: Pleasing evangelical Christians, a key part of the president's political base.
Pompeo and others in the administration often refer to religious freedom as "our first liberty." That is likely a reference to the prime positioning of religious freedom in the text of the First Amendment.While they support any effort aimed at ending the oppression of religious minorities, especially in the wake of attacks on synagogues, mosques and churches in the United States, New Zealand and Sri Lanka, they worry the Trump team is unusually selective in its approach.
Advocates acknowledge the administration — Pompeo in particular — is willing to criticize China’s mistreatment of Uighur Muslims, but they wonder if that’s politically convenient because of the administration’s overall efforts to combat rising Chinese influence.
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