Yesterday, on the National Day of Prayer, President Trump signed a new executive order. It's named Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty. The president says, under his administration, free speech does not end at the steps of a cathedral, a synagogue, or any other house of worship.
昨天是美国国家祷告日，特朗普总统签署了一项新的行政命令。这项行政命令名为“促进言论自由和宗教自由”。 特朗普总统表示，在他的管理下，言论自由不会在任何天主教堂、犹太教堂或其他礼拜堂的台阶上结束。
And what his executive order could do is give churches and other religious organizations more flexibility to endorse or oppose political candidates.
这份行政命令使得教会和其他宗教机构在支持或反对政治候选人时更加灵活自由。
That's been banned by a law called the Johnson Amendment since 1954, but it hasn't been enforced that much.
1954年开始实行的“约翰逊修正案”禁止宗教机构支持或反对政治候选人，不过该修正案并没有完全强制执行。
Another part of the executive order could allow businesses to avoid providing certain health services to their employees, if the companies object to doing it for religious reasons.
这份行政令还将允许企业依据宗教原因拒绝为员工提供某些特定的健康服务。
We will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied, or silenced anymore.
我们不能允许有信仰的民众成为被攻击的目标，被欺凌，或者继续沉默。
And we will never ever stand for religious discrimination, never ever.
我们永远不会支持宗教歧视，永远不会。
Some religious leaders who oppose the order say political endorsements shouldn't be made from the pulpit. They say it could turn religious groups into political organizations.
一些反对这项行政令的宗教领袖表示，政治支持不应该在讲道坛上发表。他们认为，这可能会使宗教组织变成政治组织。
And the American Civil Liberties Union plans to sue the Trump administration. It says the executive order would allow companies to use religion to discriminate.
美国公民自由联盟计划起诉特朗普政府。他们表示，这项行政令或会允许企业以宗教为借口对员工进行区别对待。

Yesterday, on the National Day of Prayer, President Trump signed a new executive order. It's named Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty. The president says, under his administration, free speech does not end at the steps of a cathedral, a synagogue, or any other house of worship.
And what his executive order could do is give churches and other religious organizations more flexibility to endorse or oppose political candidates.
That's been banned by a law called the Johnson Amendment since 1954, but it hasn't been enforced that much.
Another part of the executive order could allow businesses to avoid providing certain health services to their employees, if the companies object to doing it for religious reasons.
We will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied, or silenced anymore.
And we will never ever stand for religious discrimination, never ever.
Some religious leaders who oppose the order say political endorsements shouldn't be made from the pulpit. They say it could turn religious groups into political organizations.
And the American Civil Liberties Union plans to sue the Trump administration. It says the executive order would allow companies to use religion to discriminate.