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Some Religious Groups Are Coming Out Against the “Religious Freedom Task Force”

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The Trump administration’s taxpayer-funded “Religious Freedom Task Force” is “one-sided” and uses religion as a “sword” to deny vulnerable people basic human rights. Those aren’t the words of atheists but of religious groups in the U.S. We first wrote about this issue earlier this week, when we pointed out that a secular country like ours shouldn’t promote any particular …

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Not as many people are flooding into Ark Encounter as projected

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Visitors to the life-sized Noah’s Ark attraction near Northern Kentucky are sinking below the number of projected visitors advertised by the owners of the religious-themed park. The Ark Encounter sold a little more than 860,000 tickets between July 2017 and June 2018, according to open records obtained by The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes the …

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New 'Religious Liberty Task Force' Highlights Sessions, DOJ Priorities

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On Monday the Department of Justice announced the creation of a Religious Liberty Task Force. NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Emma Green, The Atlantic reporter, about the Trump administration’s legal emphasis on religious liberty. JEFF SESSIONS: A dangerous movement, undetected by many but real, is now challenging and eroding a great tradition of religious freedom. CORNISH: That …

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Cuomo Opens Investigation Into Denial of Marriage License to Gay Couple

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After a same-sex couple was denied a marriage license in New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has not only opened an investigation into the case, he has offered to officiate the couple’s wedding in Albany. Dylan Toften and Thomas Hurd sought the license in Root, N.Y., about 50 miles from Albany. But the town’s clerk, …

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Trump administration says it’s time to stop punishment of anti-gay African countries

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During the State Department’s Ministerial on International Religious Freedom last week, Mick Mulvaney — President Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget — suggested that the Trump administration would end the practice of punishing African countries for their laws that criminalize homosexuality. “Our US taxpayer dollars are used to discourage Christian values in other democratic …

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Anti-LGBT hate group linked to new Trump administration ‘task force’

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A listed anti-LGBT hate group has been linked to the Trump administration’s new religious freedom task force, which activists fear will be used to undermine equal rights protections. Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the formation of a “religious freedom task force” at a Religious Liberty Summit hosted by the Justice Department on Monday. In his speech Sessions …

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Appeals Court: Jehovah’s Witness Truck Driver Wasn’t Victim of Discrimination

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Bobby Walker, Jr. was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and is still a believer today. That wasn’t a problem when he was hired as a truck driver for a Florida company called Indian River Transport Co. His schedule gave him Sundays off, which meant he could attend services at his Kingdom Hall. Everything was fine until …

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Insurers Can Send Patients To Religious Hospitals That Restrict Reproductive Care

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Last fall, about a month before her Medicaid coverage was scheduled to expire, Darolyn Lee realized that she needed to get her contraceptive implant replaced. Lee, a 37-year-old in Chicago, called the managed care organization in charge of her plan to find out where she should go to get the new implant. She was told …

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Nonprofits should serve communities, not candidates

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Efforts to limit the influence of anonymous donors in elections took hits last week on two fronts; in both cases, nonprofits were used as the vehicle for increased secrecy and decreased transparency in campaign finance. First, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill, which includes a rider undermining a longstanding law called the …

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