The document stops short of allowing federal contractors with religious affiliations to refuse service to people based on moral objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion, or a transgender identity.
Rumors had been swirling for days that Trump was poised to take action to allow virtually any federally funded entity with a religious affiliation to refuse service to someone based on religious objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion or transgender identity.
Ten groups that care about free speech sent a letter Tuesday to South Carolina state senators warning that a bill to cut public college funding based on legislators' objections to certain books could bring on First Amendment lawsuits.
Martin L. King, Jr. in one of his sermons referred to the hope that every young man who found the war in Vietnam to be unjust and immoral would register as a conscientious objector to the war and particularly noted that no matter what you thought of Muhammad Ali's religion you had to admire his courage for taking a stand based on his objections to the war.
The demand that the referendum be postponed is not based on substantive objections to the constitution.
Based on its objections to the Durand border, Afghanistan cast the sole vote against Pakistan's entry into the United Nations.
The commission's ruling against Apple was based on its objection to an agreement allowing Apple to pay a maximum tax rate of just 1%.
Opposition to the project was based on three separate objections to its construction: ecological, human, and financial.
And the president of the Allied Pilots Association, Dave Bates, sent a letter to members suggesting that they refuse to submit to the body imaging scanners based on privacy objections and the potential health risks of repeated exposure to radiation.
Another bill the House passed, which the Senate is currently considering, would allow medical professionals to deny abortion care or emergency contraception to women based on moral objections, even if the woman is a victim of rape.
