Unless we’re able to block it first, President Donald Trump’s Denial of Care Rule will go into effect one month from today – putting all of our lives at risk. The rule invites any health care worker – including doctors, nurses, paramedics, orderlies and receptionists – to deny care to any patient on the basis of the worker’s religious or moral beliefs.

As the Pew report makes clear, our country is changing. When it comes to religion, we’re more diverse than ever. While far-right fundamentalists who are convinced that only their narrow version of faith is 'true' may tremble at this news, the rest of us should celebrate it.

There was an unexpected shout-out to the true meaning of religious freedom at the Values Voter Summit, a gathering of conservative Christians who devoted most of the event to talking about strategies for inserting their extremist religious beliefs into government policy, the courts, public schools and communities – often at the expense of women, LGBTQ people, religious minorities and others.

In his new book, Ralph Reed asserts that Christians 'have a moral obligation to enthusiastically back' Trump. The book is titled 'For God and Country: The Christian case for Trump,' but its original title, believe it or not, was 'Render to God and Trump.'

You don’t have to be a cynic to question the timing of this eruption of God talk. We have an administration that claims to be championing Christian values at a time when news headlines every day expose more rot and corruption within it.

If films could preach, this one would be pounding its fist on the pulpit proclaiming, red in the face, that the com­plexion of religion in America, even in Oklahoma, is chang­ing.

The proper answer to people who refuse to accept the rights of others and who employ violence in an attempt to deny those rights is to use the legal and law enforcement systems to make them stop. We don’t give in to extremists because they’re threatening to go out and riot.

Americans United hopes the court will come down on the right side of history and rule that employment discrimination is always wrong, especially when it attempts to use 'religious freedom' as a justification.