Project 2025

[Gregory Matthews]

NOTE:  For various reasons, I need to redo a thread.  If you are looking for comments made by Stinsonmarri, you will find them under a thread t hat begins with her name. This thread began on July 5, with my following post.

Project 2025  is a political document of about 900 pages that is attracting attention on the Internet, some of which is probably inaccurate.  I do not normally bring political documents to your attention.  However, this document is thought to have a religious/'spiritiual grounding that should give people reason to consider, The first link below takes you to an article in Liberty magazine.  The second links to an analysis of the document.  Neither has a focus on the political issues associated with the document.

https://www.libertymagazine.org/article/the-real-problem-with-project-2025?fbclid=IwZX

https://spectrummagazine.org/views/columns/the-peculiar-passivity-towards-project-2025/

 

[Gregory Matthews]

Gustaves made the following post, also on July 5.

[auote]This is basically the conservative equivalent of "Rules for Radicals" & "The Naked Communist", which if realized, will neutralize Drag Queen story hour for tots, gender affirming medical procedures for children and a host of other things. It's unfortunate the Democrat party allowed itself to be hijacked by an exceptionally loud minority thus causing the pendulum to swing to the 'hard' right with greater velocity than it would have had folks simply used common sense. If Trump wins and the down ticket trends the same way prepare for the elderly Justices to go into retirement making way for young MAGA Judges to step in. This will be on the heels of the largest purging of Federal Govt Agencies we have seen to date - the agencies that will remain will be staffed by MAGA - basically the reversal of what we see currently. 

Some folks will love it and others will not - just like it always is.[/quote]

 

 

[phkrause]

Project 2025’s Sunday-Saturday Challenge: Should Adventists Be Concerned?

In a bid to shape the landscape of future conservative governance, The Heritage Foundation, in partnership with over 50 conservative organizations, has launched an ambitious initiative known as Project 2025. This effort seeks to meticulously prepare for the next conservative administration by developing a detailed policy framework and cultivating a well-trained cadre of personnel poised to implement these policies.

https://religiousliberty.tv/project-2025s-sunday-saturday-challenge-should-adventists-be-concerned/

[RonCorson]

The liberty magazine article is just wrong. They stop quoting the Project 2025 article before the Project makes it plan that it does not favor Sunday or Saturday, it offers the overtime pay based on which day the person holds as sacred. 

 

Project 2025 page 589
Alternative View. While metrics on the state of American families and civil society
are important and useful, monthly statistics would be of little additional value
and could end up causing unnecessary confusion and concern. Funding should be
oriented towards improving the timeliness of annual family statistics.
Sabbath Rest. God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest, and until very recently
the Judeo-Christian tradition sought to honor that mandate by moral and legal
regulation of work on that day. Moreover, a shared day off makes it possible for
families and communities to enjoy time off together, rather than as atomized
individuals, and provides a healthier cadence of life for everyone. Unfortunately,
that communal day of rest has eroded under the pressures of consumerism and
secularism, especially for low-income workers.
l Congress should encourage communal rest by amending the Fair
Labor Standards Act (FLSA)9 to require that workers be paid time and
a half for hours worked on the Sabbath. That day would default to Sunday,
except for employers with a sincere religious observance of a Sabbath at a
different time (e.g., Friday sundown to Saturday sundown); the obligation
would transfer to that period instead. Houses of worship (to the limited
extent they may have FLSA-covered employees) and employers legally
required to operate around the clock (such as hospitals and first responders)
would be exempt, as would workers otherwise exempt from overtime.
Alternative View. While some conservatives believe that the government should
encourage certain religious observance by making it more expensive for employers
and consumers to not partake in those observances, other conservatives believe
that the government’s role is to protect the free exercise of religion by eliminating
barriers as opposed to erecting them. Whereas imposing overtime rules on the Sabbath
would lead to higher costs and limited access to goods and services and reduce
work available on the Sabbath (while also incentivizing some people—through
higher wages—to desire to work on the Sabbath), the proper role of government
in helping to enable individuals to practice their religion is to reduce barriers to
work options and to fruitful employer and employee relations. The result: ample
job options that do not require work on the Sabbath so that individuals in roles
that sometimes do require Sabbath work are empowered to negotiate directly with
their employer to achieve their desired schedule.