text: Yes, the outgoing administration had declared war on the rights of conscience, and the other candidate in the campaign had vowed to continue that war and engaged and proposed to continue to engage in “dirty tricks” against Americans’ religious beliefs and rights, especially regarding the Catholic Church.
  
  A group of prominent black religious leaders wrote an open letter to her on three issues critical to people of faith: abortion, religious freedom, and the rights of conscience on the issue of same sex relations. She did not respond.