Inside Project 2025: How the expansive conservative playbook could impact religious liberty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Other religiously inspired proposed policies include:∎ Pushing for rescinding regulations that bar discrimination "on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics.
52% : In 2020, Tennessee lawmakers passed a law that allowed private adoption agencies to refuse to place a child with a family because of "religious or moral convictions," even if the private agency benefits from public funding.
51% : "More: From student debt to Title IX reform, how Project 2025 could alter these people's livesSpokespeople with the Heritage Foundation say the Project 2025 plan wouldn't violate the separation of church and state.
47% : "∎ While not ignoring the federal Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education program, which helps foster healthy family relationships, the project pushes for "faith-based" family and marriage programs to "be protected and prioritized" so they are not put under pressure to "conform to nonreligious definitions of marriage and family" as defined by the Respect for Marriage Act, the landmark federal law that codified the validity of same-sex and interracial marriages.
42% : "∎ Opposing same-sex marriage and same-sex parents adopting children by seeking to "maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family," stating that "children raised in homes aside from a heterosexual, intact marriage...involve higher levels of instability, financial stress or poverty; and poor behavioral, psychological, or educational outcomes.
38% : "When asked whether the religiously focused proposals could tread on the separation of church and state, the organization sought to place distance between the project's writing and Trump, saying the policies would instead "prevent discrimination against people and organizations because of their diverse religious beliefs.
35% : ""Trump and his campaign had nothing to do with formulating these ideas," the spokesperson said.
30% : Regarding the opposition to same-sex marriage and same-sex parents adopting children, the Heritage Foundation said that was "false.""There is no stated 'opposition' to same-sex adoption or same-sex marriage," the foundation said.

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