(Photo : house.gov) President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion spending bill is set to impact even Americans’ religious freedom, a conservative group said recently. The spending bill raises questions as to how funding will funnel into things like access to abortion and how it will create friction between pro-choice and pro-life groups. "Allowing a religious organization to be religious is central to the First Amendment," Justin Butterfield, a spokesman for First Liberty Institute told WND . He argued that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) once "trampled the rights of religious organizations like the Little Sisters of the Poor by forcing them to violate their religious convictions." Butterfield said that to ban the HHS from "continuing to disregard Americans’ religious convictions," the Office for Civil Rights was tasked to ensure that the HHS will respect the religious liberty rights as dictated in the Constitution and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act." He also accused President Biden of creating "another step in dismantling safeguards within the federal government for people of faith" and infusing religious organizations who serve the needy with politics, specifically his progressive agenda. "President Biden cannot mask his administration’s hostility toward religion in doing so," […]

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