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From 1600 Daily, the White House's daily propaganda e-mail:
It's an understandable mistake, for somebody whose career has been mostly in real estate (although that theory suggests that Trump actually had something to do with writing the proclamation), and whose knowledge of theology seems to consist of whatever somebody briefed him on five minutes before a scheduled address to a fundamentalist-Christian audience. When forced to choose between two tenants, are you more likely to get the rent from the one who makes more money, or the one who says "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's"? Which one is likelier to hold noisy parties that inspire the neighbors to call the cops? Tough call.
In fairness, the official version of the proclamation on whitehouse.gov uses the word "tenets" instead. And then, in another presumably unintentional stroke of irony, the Proclamation on Religious Freedom ends: "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen...."
Today is the 25th federal observance of National Religious Freedom Day. “No American—whether a nun, nurse, baker, or business owner—should be forced to choose between the tenants of faith and law,” President Donald J. Trump’s proclamation reads.
It's an understandable mistake, for somebody whose career has been mostly in real estate (although that theory suggests that Trump actually had something to do with writing the proclamation), and whose knowledge of theology seems to consist of whatever somebody briefed him on five minutes before a scheduled address to a fundamentalist-Christian audience. When forced to choose between two tenants, are you more likely to get the rent from the one who makes more money, or the one who says "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's"? Which one is likelier to hold noisy parties that inspire the neighbors to call the cops? Tough call.
In fairness, the official version of the proclamation on whitehouse.gov uses the word "tenets" instead. And then, in another presumably unintentional stroke of irony, the Proclamation on Religious Freedom ends: "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen...."
