The Trump administration's expansion of religious exemptions is undermining civil rights protections and codifying discrimination against marginalized groups. particularly LGBTQ people. according to a report released Monday by three research and advocacy groups.

Louise Melling, deputy legal director of the ACLU responded and told NBC News: "The many proposals to allow religious discrimination are consistent with the trend of the administration to undercut civil rights broadly. The administration is taking the position that religious freedoms give you a right to discriminate." For more Click Here.

Ron: The religious camel ever pushes its nose in the tent door, and with the current administration, the religious right has found an ally who is ironically the most irreligious US president in US history. (See more in Forum topic: Can Religion Make it Without Government Welfare?)