On Thursday, President Trump made good on another campaign promise by signing an executive order that promises to protect religious liberty.

"Faith is deeply embedded into the history of our country, the spirit of our founding and the soul of our nation," the president said surrounded by religious leaders on the National Day of Prayer. "We will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied or silenced anymore."

"We are giving our churches their voices back,” Trump added.

Some in attendance included two nuns from the Little Sisters of the Poor, who were embroiled in a federal lawsuit wishing to opt out of the Obamacare contraception mandate. They and other leaders gathered to pray before the signing.

NBC News reports:

Trump promised during the campaign to dismantle the Johnson Amendment, which bans tax-exempt organizations like churches from political speech and activities. His executive order relaxes IRS enforcement of that ban. While the executive order signals a promise kept, fully repealing the Johnson amendment would require Congressional action.

The executive order, called "Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty," also gives "regulatory relief" to companies that object to an Obamacare mandate for contraception in health care. That builds on the 2014 Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case, which found that the Affordable Care Act mandate that certain corporations must provide female employees with no-cost access to contraception was a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

While an earlier draft of the religious liberty order reportedly would have let federal contractors discriminate against LGBT employees based on faith beliefs, Thursday's version did not include such provisions.

After the signing, Pastor Mark Burns, dubbed “Trump’s pastor,” said Thursday was a “great day for religious freedom in America.”

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said, “The open season on Christians and other people of faith is coming to a close in America and we look forward to assisting the Trump administration in fully restoring America's First Freedom.”

The American Civil Liberties Union had a completely different take on the executive order, saying this order gives churches a license to discriminate. The ACLU vowed to “see Trump in court, again.”